S02E18: Women's World Cup Impact & "Gran Turismo" Movie Review: A Dive into Sports and Cinema

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First on film and entertainment. What
a week it has been. Now I

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am genuinely excited about what this country
has gone through over the last month or

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so with the Women's World Cup.
I mean it's the numbers are simply extraordinary.

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The numbers of people who I would
not have thought will be glued to

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their television screens. They'll be going
to live sites, pubs and clubs.

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By various estimates. You know,
we're talking about more than half the population

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watching. Did you ever imagine,
Jackie, that we would see something like

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this, I mean, it's grown
out of virtually nowhere. Well why not?

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Barbie started the trend and off we
go. Well, I'm not sure

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where the Barbie started the trend rule
Alex lem Well, I don't. I

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don't question that women rule. But
if your interest in okay, you're somebody

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who loves sport in terms of participation, did you know or did you care

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about the Matilda's a great deal before
the World Cup? Serious question? Oh

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not at all. But what I
do love is the energy it's brought to

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the country and the excitement and the
coming together, and I think that's terrific.

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So I don't really care what sport
it's about. But I just love

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the result. It's ad and in
terms of the investment in the sport.

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And I don't want to play politics
here, but I want to sort of

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put on a little bit of a
cynical ad. You know, the two

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hundred million dollars that is now going
to be invested in women's sport, which

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is terrific. Had it not been
the success that it has been, do

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you think that would have been forthcoming? Oh well, I mean who's to

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know, who's to know what would
have been? But I just think it's

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a crying shame that it. You
know, it doesn't come out of the

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whole idea of thinness and between between
genders. It has to come from one

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particular success, you know. It's
you get success from investment. So Jabe

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have done it twenty years ago.
That I mean, in terms of momentum,

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this is terrific because it's I suppose
the next massive sporting event is going

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to be the Olympic Games, so
well it might be the Commonwealth Games.

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No wait, what that's custos?
What three hundred and was it three eighty

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million dollars? Not good? Great
King, you are somebody who goes to

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the football a great deal. And
I spoke to Dare I say, Carlton

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mates, I'm not sure that their
mates who were at the game against Melbourne,

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and they said, well, basically
that people were turning their backs on

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the football just to watch the soccer. How do you feel about the momentum,

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the build up, the intrigue,
the excitement that surrounded the Matilda's Well,

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dig the truth, Alix, I
haven't watched any of it. Now,

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tell me why, because it has
been huge. It's been humongous,

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bigger than any football match, I
mean AFL football mate. So why why

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no interest? Greg? Oh?
Well, what I was at the football

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one night when it was on myth
one night when it was on Well,

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I just haven't been well. Peter
Krause, do you actually know what soccer

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means? Do you have an understanding
of that word? No, I'll pass

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that through to the keeper. But
but I mean it's great to see that

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it's you know, galvanized the nation
and everyone's excited and women's sport is getting

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attention, but it doesn't particularly interest
me. Right, Okay, So Jackie,

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this is a divided audience. Did
you watch any of the games,

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lines, Jackie? Did I?
No? Not at all. No Joe

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Watts, folks, just these are
heathens that I have leased on feel man

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entertain we're here. It's not soccer. I'm sorry if if this has not

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been entertaining, I don't know what
has been. I've got to excuse for

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anybody listening ignore the the anybody listening
who was entertained by the Williams soccer has

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been entertained by it. By the
stage. And now we're talking about film.

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Good things are worth talking about,
like the sixteen Essendon premiership. Jack

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evident, So you know since time
immemorial. Did you realize at the Palais

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Theater. I think it's on Thursday
night there is a coming together and Greg,

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I hope that you know about this. There's a coming together of the

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fifth it's the fifty year anniversary of
the one and only premiership. That's Kilda

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one. Isn't it know about this? Sorry? This was on television on

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Friday night and they were interviewing some
of the storewards like Ross Smith and whatever.

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There's a there's a film about this
that is seriously that's been put together.

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I don't actually think it's a film. I think it's it's it's a

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re a maage, not a reimagining. It's a reworking of the actual Grand

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Final that will be replayed in the
name of chari and it's got the AFL

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sanction. Now there you go.
That's entertaining and at there at that event.

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And I may have got this totally
wrong, but that's my recollection of

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having seen the TV story. At
that event, you're going to have the

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storewarts of that win. You know, the one and only one point went

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against Collingwood, So you should be
going to that, Greg h I think,

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okay, sorry, you've got to
pay a fortune to go there.

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Fifty bucks, that's a fortune.
Yeah, but it's the charity. Well

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hang on, you pay a thousand
dollars to go and see the boss,

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so it's but that's the boss and
that was you working out with a one

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off sort of thing. Hang on, hang on, your one premiership was

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a one off so ah, correct, true, but thank you. You

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got to put you gotta get your
prior to your right, Alex. You

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know the boss comes first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are

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you excited about mister McCartney going out
to see you personally? No, you

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don't. Don't like Paul McCartney.
I'm not a bit fan of Paul McCartney.

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No, I'm I'm saving my money
for when Bruce Bington comes yet next

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year. Kay, Jackie, do
you do you like Paul McCartney. I

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do, but I'm not I'm not
sort of jumping to go so this one.

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But I'm a bit concerned about whether
he's got his voice, has still

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got it? Well, the other
way to tell is to go along.

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Oh, pay and pay a lot
of money to go along and find it

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out. And then you know,
I don't know where you can buy tickets

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anymore. And Peter, you've probably
never been your concert in your life?

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Did you? Did you play accordion
when you were a kid or something?

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Now? It was actually the Clever
Chord and Mozarts and I got on really

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well, you didn't wor him off
the stage light chavilion, Yes exactly.

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I could imagine you in a clever
chord, you know. I it's just

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oh okay, now, look,
I think it's time to speak about some

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movies. So we're on jar listening
to this drivel. And I wanted to

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start with a movie that we didn't
get to last week that it could have

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been very, very ordinary, but
it turned out to be anything but called

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Grand to Rismo. And it's a
long film, two hours and fourteen minutes

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m rated, and we're got to
go back a quarter of a century.

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And that's when kazanuriy Yamouchi, and
I've probably mangled his name, but something

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like that, Kazanuri Yamouchi created the
world's most accurate car racing simulation game,

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and that was called Grand to Rismo. And Yamucci and his team has spent

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five years getting it right, perfecting
it so video game as well, they

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became obsessed. One day, a
UK marketing executive for Nissan whose name was

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Danny Moore played by Orlando Bloom,
had this crazy, rather revolutionary idea and

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he put this idea of the high
ups at Nissen, and it basically was

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along the lines that the company could
receive a significant public relations boost if a

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gamer, somebody playing Grand Rismo could
transfer his skills to the mark's real racing

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cars, in other words, the
real miss and racing team. Surprisingly,

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and it is surprising, the execs
brought the idea so more than sort of

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thought, okay, well, what
do we do. Well, let's have

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a contest to choose the best Grand
Rismo player in the world. I'm talking

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about the video game, and the
top ten gamers were selected from a series

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of live online events. Then they
were taught by this grizzled engineer former driver

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called Jack Salter played by David Arbor
to drive real racing cars, and they

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were pitted against each other. The
ten whittled out of five, then a

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single race determined who would be the
chosen one from those. He turned out

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to be at all, quietly spoken
but determined British racing car simulation officionado by

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the name of Yan Mardinborough played by
Archie Mediqui. His father, Steve played

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by Jim on Unso, had been
a soccer champion, and Jan's younger brother,

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Kobe played by Daniel Poough, also
took up the round ball game after

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his dad. But his dad was
forever on Jan's case to play footy as

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well, urging him to put his
time and effort into something that he considered

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to be meaningful. He'd being the
father rather than just playing video games.

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But Jan was not into the ball
sport and he did not relent. Still,

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his road to becoming the one selected
to race for Rial was far from

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easy. That was nothing compared to
what he encountered when he took to the

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track against seasoned drivers. So it
was chosen by Nissan. Fine step into

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the Nissan racing car. But then
competing against drivers had been doing this for

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years and years and years and had
established themselves on the real racing track.

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So of course he had to have
his wits about him. This is yarn

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and he had to learn fast that. I suppose that was always a given.

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More than that, though, he
faced significant prejudice from drivers, one

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in particular called Nicholas Kappa played by
Josha Stradowski. Now Kappa and the others

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were against any simulation driver encroaching on
a big boy's sport. So this is

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a movie based on a true story, which I reckon makes it all the

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more compelling. And despite what the
ending's never end out right, it quickly

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becomes clear what will happen. It's
still pretty exciting. The film was written

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by Jason Hall and Zach Baylett.
It throws up plenty of obstacles and challenges,

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and I suppose the premise released backs
to the Wall, the directors of

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the Bloke who did District nine all
those years ago Neil Blomkamp South African ensures

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there's no shortage of adrenaline pumping action
throughout. Of course, it's the characters,

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the heroes and the villains that bring
this sory tolive. Arguably the most

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interesting of those is Jack Salter.
He's a man whose career was cut short,

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but we really don't know why until
a significant wage of the movie,

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and we're not about to ted you
on this program. And Iregon David Harbor

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really balances that push and pull required
of the persona pretty well, very well.

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Actually, so Orlando Bloom unbridled enthusiasm
with much to lose, that's his

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default position as the marketing guru Finis
and Archie Mediqui, I thought he was

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really likable and more often not contained
as Yarn Mardenborough is not that sort of

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effusive character. And the filmmakers have
done a pretty good job with the visual

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effects are really great job actually,
specifically by overlaying the simulated video game with

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what I'll call skeletons of race cars. And I thought the sound, the

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music, the production design, and
the cinematography all came together really nicely and

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produce it produced what Oregon's a pulsating
right. The other thing is Jerry Halliewell

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or Jerry Halliewell Horner as she's now
known Bye Girls Fame is Yarn's mum in

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Grand Tarismo. So that's my take
on it. What about you, Greek?

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Did you like it all of that? I didn't. I thought it

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was quite a good underdog story there
and follows the trops of this the formula

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pretty well and the writers obviously taking
some liberties with the facts for dramatic purposes,

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and he tated some events either out
of context or out of water,

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just to spice up the drama there. But it has followed the challenges that

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Yahn face, how he coped with
the overt prejudice from the rival drivers,

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and David put up with the disdaining
that he wasn't media friendly or media savvy

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and that. But it all reaches
the climates during the famous Lamon's twenty four

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hour race, and even know it's
a little bit predictable here, I thought

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that didn't dilute the excitement or the
enjoyment to be hands from the story.

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I thought Neil Blobcamp directed this in
quite muscular fashion, and he had adrenaline

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charge races. I thought they were
quite well handled there, and I like

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actually made Reddy as young Munbro.
I thought he bought conviction juries slightly awkward

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character, but he gave him a
vulnerability as well when he's consumed by debts

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and uncertainties. He's an in likable
and endearing protagonists. I thought Broom was

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a little bit unctuous as more there. But I really liked David Harbor.

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I thought he was really good in
his role there. He was probably the

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best scene in the film there,
and he elevated a character above becoming a

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cliche as a solid car racing movie. I still think I preferred for Forward

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versus Ferrario, though, which she
was a match more compelling and entertaining film.

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But no, I certainly enjoyed his
salles. Yeah, I agree,

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And I said the same thing about
David Harbor, Peter, you agree that

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he was a pretty good thing in
this movie. Not at all. I

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found this David Harbor. But is
that because you don't like sport, you

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don't like life as it really exists
with sport? Edit Setipez, don't rush

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into comments like that. Look,
this film is a turn a quarter our

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excuse for product placement, and I
just got tired of the film after I

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saw a hundred Nissen advertising signs,
PlayStation and all the other Did you like

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did you like Barbie talk about product
placement? Did you? I mean?

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And the Lego movie? I mean, what are we talking about here?

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This is model cinema. They were
done as satire, and they were done

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in a clever sort of way.
This is a film that is purely promotional

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vehicle for Nissan and for PlayStation and
for other providers. And I just got

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so tired of this attempt to replicate
Formula one racing the underdog hero when something

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happens? Will you recover all that
sort of cliche city which this film is

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part of? And I must say
Neil Bromcamp, who is such a good

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director. I really like District nine. He has obviously sold his soul to

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the devil to make this. Listen
and tell us advertising movie. Please tell

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us what you're really think it?
All right, all right, I won't

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hold back. No, this is
a product placement movie which doesn't deserve the

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two and a quarter our treatment.
And I just got tired of it,

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and I just dismissed it as nothing
more than advertising. Oh no, okay,

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Well, we're tired of you now, so let's go on. No,

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I'm just getting better. Stay there, Stay there, Jacqueline, Are

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you into rule rule? You used
to review cars, didn't you or something?

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do with racing cars or to do
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to say, I cast yeah,
yep. And I think Peter has been

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sneaky. A look at my notes
because he said a lot of what I

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felt about this film, which starts
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a quarter hours at all, in
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this film, and in the end, to me, it's I mean,

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car racing really is not at all
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you mentioned forward versus Ferrari back twenty
nineteen, I love that film, So

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it was the way it was handled
that made this It didn't give me any

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pleasure at all. It was full
of that testosterone cliche dialogue that RG Bargie

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kind of put on Marco's stuff,
And even though it might have been based

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on a true story, it's very
hard to keep the level of tension up

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when you probably know what the ending
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Otherwise it wouldn't be a film.
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to keep that adrenaline going through the
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music or hyper music and you know, the fast, fast footage. Well,

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actually, the film work I thought
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liked what you mentioned, Alex,
that layover of the of the graphics over

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I don't just thought that were visually, you know, kind of broke up

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this well rather boring cars and men's
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that kept crossing my mind was,
you know, this is so out of

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sync with what we're trying to do
for our environment and for the planet to

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you know, have these gas guzzling
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the danger, the danger of it
and the thing I mean to me,

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I know this is a personal thing, but does that balance you know,

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for entertainment, whether you're seeing it
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movie about it. Well, I
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and you know that's laudable, but
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longer exists so we're not at it
about it or d of it? Yep?

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Yeah, but I can go the
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I don't. I don't think you're
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that at this point maybe down the
trade. Okay, that's fine, I'm

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just saying it. That was cross
my mind because I'm seeing these gas guzzlers

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racing round and round and round,
petrol or whatever round around. I'm just

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thinking of what it's doing to the
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a story about base on, a
true story about people, one in particular,

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and I just didn't really care about
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story just didn't really matter to me, and you know, kind of may

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it's not going to change the world. So I didn't love it at all.

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So after the film, I went
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story, the true story of this
just want out more about the jam Munro

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and what happened there, and I
was interested to read that here the real

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life Jan Munro actually did the sunt
driving for his character in the film There

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you go see. And I also
looked him up, so I don't well,

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that was that was at the end
of the film. It showed that

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it showed it actually put that all
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and then showed Sorry, it showed
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there was a lot of a lot
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one could say they worked hard to
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theater. It was very good.
I like seeing that at the end of

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films when they sort of match up
the real life with the characters. Yeah,

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so it looked yeah, and I
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him up as well. And therefore, so this is really divisive, and

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Greg will dismiss the other two's opinions
as being incorrect, very simple. When

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we move on, What is a
score out of ten from you? Greg?

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Seven out of ten. I'm giving
seven seven a half. Actually,

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you're going to fail it. Peter
absolutely, product placement, Galore sick of

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it. Three out of ten.
Oh my golly, oh that is very

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I think this is a daggerut of
the chest of this movie. It's such

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an illustrious reviewer, like your good
self. What did you get out of

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the wrong side of bed this morning
or something? Did you veto what's going

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on here? Hey, get Ali, I'm still in bed. Yeah,

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we're what Jackie, We're not You're
not going to be that harsh, are

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you. No, No, I'm
I'm judging it as as a film that,

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you know, we'll appeal to something
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That's right, Petrick, Yeah,
exactly exactly, And that's not me.

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But I'm judging it as a fairly
well made film. It had a big

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budget look and some fancy camera work. The fact that I didn't really enjoy

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it and it was far too long. I gave it barely a six.

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Just scrape. I guess there we
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so we're grand Tarismo. Yes,
indeed you are on j ad ADFM

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and you're listening to Jackie Hamilton,
to Peter Kraus, to Greek King and

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to meet Alex. First we might
just finally say, Alex, I wasn't

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really conscious at running time. It
is sean lighter. I quite thought it

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worked for woam. Yeah, and
it didn't worry me either, and I

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usually do worry about these things.
So the thought were you probably you boys

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probably enjoyed seeing the cars going round
and round the round, the round,

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the round the round. You know, I can't say no, i I'm

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a real you know, some racing
car racing I watched, but I can't

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say I'm a real aficionado. I
just yeah, I just I think Greg

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and I agree that the strength of
the engineer in this film was very,

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very strong, and it was his
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I thought that that carried it simple
as that. So all right, one

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FM. J are we are now
going to talk about dogs? Now,

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I should start by saying that my
wife has often said to me that there's

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nobody more important in her life than
our dog. And she's fair enough.

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She said it to me this morning, Jackie, this morning, right.

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So in other words, so,
for example, I'll give you a concrete

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example of this. Last yesterday I
went out in my motor car and Nadine

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rings me and asks me, did
I check up on the dog before I

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left? I said, no,
the dog will be fine. The dogs

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upstairs, Oh no, well no, I want you to go back just

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to double and check that the dog
hasn't gone out. So I had to

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drive back home just to make sure
that the pooch was okay, because that's

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the most important thing. And I
life life. You'd do the same thing,

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wouldn't you. I think this says
more about your wife than it does

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about your dog. Oh, my
wife's delightful, and she our dog's delightful,

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and it's all all the neighbors know
our dog. There's a three year

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old neighbor of ours or the child
of a neighbor of ours who calls our

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dog fluffball because it is it is
a very very hairy animal with that encourages

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pats from young youngsters. And my
wife can't actually take the dog for a

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walk because the dog just stops and
it's padded all the way. Now you've

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got a different sort of dog that
gets taken for a walk. At last

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count, it was seven times a
day, isn't it, Jackie. Oh,

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at least Alex and get thinking about
this film that you're going to talk

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about. I really can't see Chloe
in this or my dog Bob. I

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don't think that they would be in
this set up. Hang on, Bob

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gets grumpy if he's not walked,
correct, he gets he gets narky.

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And the dog's about seven, the
dogs about three hundred and seventy five years

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old, isn't it, Bob?
Yeah roughly? Yep, yeah, exactly.

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So there we go. Well,
we're talking about this because strays.

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You know, I'm actually a big
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from a shelter. I'm not sure
about yours, Jackie, but I'm a

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big rapp for that. Yeah,
good stuff. I think if you can

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do that, the last thing that
these animals deserved deserves to be put down

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through no fold of their own.
And if if you've got an inclination to

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have a pet, why don't you
start there now? Strays is ninety three

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minutes and it's rated m A.
It's rated are in various jurisdictions. Why

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Because it's rude, crude, and
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a bit of a hit and misproposition. Some of the physical comedy lands,

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some does not in between sight gags. I thought there were flat patches and

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the transitions between scenes well not always
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Then let's have another situation comedy,
and let's have a third one.

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Reggie, voiced by Will Ferrell,
is a mutt with a dirt bag of

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an owner. That dirt bag of
an owner is called Dug. It's a

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roll filled by Will Fort and heat
treats. Is Dog, a Border Terrier

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very very poorly. Indeed, Reggie, though mistakenly believes that is good for

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nothing, bong addicted lay about master
actually cares for him when nothing could be

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further from the truth. And in
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but no matter how far Dark drives, the dog always manages to find

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a way back, much to Doug's
anger infuriation. So the only thing for

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Doug to do is to transport Reggie
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That's where Reggie meets others, strays
and befriends a fast talking, foul mouth

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Boston Terrier named Bug played by the
voice of Jamie Foxx, and you know

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it's Jamie Foxx the moment he opens
his mouth, but there you go.

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The pair starts hanging out together along
with bugs, peals, and those pearls.

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Maggie isla fisher whip smart Australian shepherd
were the best nose in the business,

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whose sidelined by her owner's cute new
puppy. And there's Hull Hunter Randall

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Park, an anxious Great Dane who
failed as a police dog and now works

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as an emotional support animal for the
elderly. And around his head is this

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plastic cone. I did google this
afterwards. It's known as an Elizabethan collar,

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which prevents him from scratching. Now, Maggie, this beautiful whips fad

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Australian shepherd cares for Hunter and Hunter
cares for her, but so far neither

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has acted up their reciprocal feelings.
Truth be told. Despite his new friend's

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strong advice to ditch his owner,
Doug forever, Reggie still harbors a strong

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desire to reunite with his low life
owner and a road trip in shoes with

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plenty of bumps along the way.
So Dan Appero has crafted what I'd call

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a subversive comedy, which is directed
by Josh Greenbaum. I reckon it's got

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most appeal to young adult mostly males, right, young adults, mostly probably

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under forties, and all the dogs
talk, even if humans can't actually understand

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what they're saying. The filmmakers here
have totally abandoned the idea of less is

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more. Copious sexual references, innuendos, exclamations are rooted to this production,

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punfully intended, and apart from the
frequent use of the F word, there

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are pardon the word. Dick jokes
are plenty, while dog defecates is another

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mainstay. The undoubtedly the nicest character
in the pieces, Maggie and I could

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tell You Something. Isla Fisher's izzy
accent certainly stands out. Jamie Fox treats

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us to plenty of jive talking.
Will Ferrell paints Reggie as loyal and conflicted,

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Randall Park exposes Hunter's vulnerabilities, and
Josh gads a winner. I reckon

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in Small Roll as Gus, this
Labrador retriever who narrates his owner's life,

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look strays, It sets out the
shock, and it does achieve. That

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certainly does. But for all its
moments, I wanted and expected more.

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What I needed to see was a
greater bucket of laughs, and I found

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the film was uneven in its plotting, and that was disappointing. So the

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idea was sound, the execution only
mediocre. What did you think, Peter,

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Well, I must say a bucket
of something. There's quite a good

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way of describing this film. I
found this an incredibly pure trade attempt at

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at scatological humor and of shocking the
audience as much as possible. I mean,

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I think, you know, these
talking dog ideas are not bad and

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could have been crafted into a good
satire, into clever writing, into something

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that could have been quite amusing and
clever, especially as a send up of

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some of those heartwarming films about dogs. Instead, the filmmakers have decided to

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grab the audience and throw as much
crap at them as possible. And I

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must say I was not impressed one
I owed by this film. I was

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cringing through most of us, and
I was wondering how much further they're going

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to go with these, as you
said, dick jokes and and other defecations

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and other things. In fact,
the whole script is a defecation, And

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look I was. It's just it's
just absolutely awful, and it almost made

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me want to go and see grand
to rismo. Again, that's how bad

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this film was. Oh yeah,
all right into it. Okay, so

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you've you've got off to really flying
start today. But there's there's gonna be

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two spades in your your book box
of tricks. Okay, now, Greg,

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did you find something a little bit
more enjoyable about strays? This is

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quite silly, juvenile and crewe,
but I rather enjoyed this potty mouth comedy

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about dogs behaving badly. There's plenty
of gross out of humor here. I

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thought some of the great visual gage
were quite funny as well, and some

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of the dialogue is actually laugh out
funny. But it does become a bit

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repetitive, and it is a bit
overly long. The Sipple premise has been

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packed out with plenty of rybold duma
as a four dogs swear a lot.

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films as well. This is certainly not

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a Disney film about dogs on an
incredible journey. In fact, it's not

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a film for kids at all.
But like some of the adventures there,

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you know that some of the antis
they got up to pumping garden gnomes,

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urinating on each other to call themselves
pfs, escape from the dog Pound any

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magic math rooms. I thought some
of them were quite amusing, and I

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liked the vocal class has been put
to Jenner for the film, but Jamie

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Foxx was clearly the standout as a
foul mouth mud there, and Dennis Quaid

404
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.200
contributed a brief soult and facing cameo
there, so I'd quite like this,

405
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And I thought Fort k will Fort
did a good job of making Dug a

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very lowsome teraster. I didn't like
him at all, but there was a

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role he played and I thought,
what's his name? Reggie was quite a

408
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:44.119
cute little dog as he learned the
ways of the street, how to survive

409
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on the streets, and the life
of living free as Astray did Alex at

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all. Did you like the ending? You know where they A lot of

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people have left the cinema by then, Zad would have seen the ending.

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Now did you like the ending?
Yes, the idea. I thought it

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was quite funny. But as I
said, a lot of people if you

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walked out left when the credits were
on and I missed it. M hmm,

415
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A lot of people if you walked
out due to Phil do yeah,

416
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yeah, well, yes, look
this is going to be I said it's

417
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hit and miss in terms of some
of the scripting, et cetera. I

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think it's hit and miss in terms
of the audience. But there's certainly going

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to be an audience for it.
I don't doubt that at all, because

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this is I mean, there's genre
that we're talking about. Here is a

421
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notable. I mean, think about
anything like Bride's Mates taking a dump in

422
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Main Street and things of that nature. But this go I'm just trying to

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think the makers of this, or
the producers of this were responsible for a

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couple of other movies of similar ilk
weren't date one of them? Ted That

425
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:49.279
was the one I was thinking of. Yeah, Ted, which which is

426
00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:55.319
about this Teddy beer right and Route
Yeah and Coka exactly. Now, okay,

427
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so good one, yes, one, no? And I'm kind of

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00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.839
in the middle there, Jackie.
Did you like I thought I would?

429
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I expected I was almost not going
to go to see this film after having

430
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seen the trailer, because I expected
to react to it like as Peter has.

431
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However, I'm a little bit more
towards the way that Greg ended up.

432
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:23.680
I thought it would be absolutely horrible, but it was everything you've said,

433
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:29.839
crude, rude, disgusting, foul, but I also got loves from

434
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:34.519
it, and I didn't mind the
story of it's actually, even though it's

435
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:39.240
very wicked, it's it is actually
a buddy road trip of an innocent abroad.

436
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:45.559
And it's also a revenge film.
Because I think you said he was

437
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little Reggie was very keen to reunite
with his owner. He wasn't actually he

438
00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.720
was going back. He was talked
into going back for this revenge. At

439
00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:01.640
the end, I disagree initially,
even though actually yes, but then we

440
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:07.960
got talked into going back with this
revenge idea in mind that ends up with

441
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:14.760
the resulting climax, shall we say, critically, But I found and this

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00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.800
is why it's episoding, you know, Alex, Alex. It's it's it's

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00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.320
a road trip, and as you're
traveling along the road to a destination,

444
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.679
you'll meet up with some other characters
such as the police dogs, or an

445
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:31.000
event, or see something such as
the mushrooms, and that will cause that's

446
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:35.840
why it feels like chapters unfolding along
the way. I didn't mind that at

447
00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:38.760
all, And I found a lot
of moments so of you know, quite

448
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:45.880
heartfelt, you know, heartfelt moments
through through the film, although you know,

449
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.039
it did get pretty violent, and
yes, I certainly wouldn't recommend it

450
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:55.360
to children of any age. And
I did feel my IQ drop during the

451
00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:00.760
film. That's fine, especially since
I realized I was actually laughing out loud

452
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:07.320
at some of the jokes. So
I was been embarrassed. Do you regon

453
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had a girlfriend next to you who
was really enjoying herself, I'd think,

454
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.599
exactly what, that's exactly a part
of it for me. I took a

455
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friend. In fact, the reason
I ended up deciding really to go was

456
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because I have a friend who does
enjoy that kind of humor, and I

457
00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:28.480
thought it would cheer her up and
be good for her. And you know

458
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.000
what, at the end of the
film, I said to her, well,

459
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.519
what did you think? And I
did hear her laugh out loud during

460
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:36.400
the film, and I said at
the end, what did you think of

461
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:40.719
that? And she said, she
judges a film by how she feels herself

462
00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.519
at the end of the film,
so she's not judging production values or how

463
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good the acting was or anything like
that. And by the way, I

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00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:54.079
thought the voices in Strass was great, But my friend said, I judged

465
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by how I feel at the end
of the film, and she gave it

466
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.800
ten out of ten. It's a
little excessive, but she was feeling good.

467
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.079
She had a good night out.
Sorry, that's lovely too. And

468
00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:08.559
if we're judging it's funny because I
used to judge films on by various criteria.

469
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:13.320
One was like clock time, you
know, like, how how many

470
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:15.679
times do I look at my time? Please kind of think? So.

471
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.519
Yeah, I mean, if if
you're judging a film on fuel, that's

472
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:22.760
that's certainly a legitimate way of doing
so. But I want to start by

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00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:27.679
low womaning this, Peter, what
are you going to give this magnificent film

474
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:34.960
straight? The great Tarismo of dog
films? Look, look, I think

475
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:38.360
Ted. I must preferred Ted.
That was I thought that was more interesting

476
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:43.960
and much better written. Anyway,
Strays, I give four out of ten.

477
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:46.760
Okay, four out of ten.
Well, okay, so we'll move

478
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.760
up the totem pole. I'm going
to give it a six out of ten.

479
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:59.239
Greg six out of ten and Jackie
okay, so Strays that I've given

480
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:07.400
the alternate title. I've given it
an alternate title for the pun smart Yeah,

481
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.920
yeah, that's that'll okay. Sorry, I thought it was hilarious.

482
00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.880
Sorry. It just proves we had
different sense of humor. It proves us

483
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.480
in the eye of the beholder.
Jackie, Yes, okay, that's Nick

484
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:22.800
Greek's dad jokes. Yes, go
for its. Yep, that's right.

485
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:24.920
While the one go down as a
classic. But I did give Strays almost

486
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:30.280
to six but not for children?
Or what's an almost to six? Is

487
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:31.559
it five? It's almost to six, that's what it is. Is it

488
00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:36.000
five? And seven? Eight?
Is not something? Yeah? Right?

489
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:40.159
Yeah, okay, good fantastic hunch. Ja Yeah, that was Jackie Amerton's

490
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:49.119
insightful review of Smarts or something well
whatever, shoup. But everybody but everybody

491
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:53.199
else, it's Strays. Now,
let's go from the sublime to the ridiculous.

492
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.199
No, from the ridiculous to the
sublime. Let's go to a movie

493
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:01.880
that is just quite special with regards
to a number of elements. But it's

494
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:06.599
not going to be everybody's cup of
tea. It's very much an art house

495
00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:10.280
film. It's called god Land.
It runs for two hours and thirteen minutes.

496
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:17.599
It's rated M, and it's just
got mesmerizing cinematography, breathtaking vistas.

497
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:22.960
It's quite a dramatic period piece in
which man and nature Collide. Set in

498
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:30.679
the late nineteenth century when Iceland was
under Danish rule. An actor called Elliott

499
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:37.760
Crossed Hove plays Lucas. He's a
young, ambitious Danish priest charged with traveling

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00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:42.000
to a remote part of Iceland to
build a church and to phograph its people.

501
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And he's got a superior played by
Waga Sando, who warns him that

502
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:52.599
due to the harsh climate, the
church must be built before winter sets him.

503
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.760
It's a film about inner and outer
conflicts, and soon becomes clear that

504
00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:58.639
Lucas has bitten off more than he
can chew. To get to ease,

505
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:06.599
heading requires slow progress on horseback across
spectacular but dangerous terrain which is littered with

506
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:10.519
glaciers and rivers. There to guide
him is this rugged and hardy older guide

507
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:17.039
called Ragna played by ingvar Ea Sigurson, along with the translator and a small

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00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:24.719
crew. They're carrying cumbersome camera equipment
and a heavy cross and that proves rather

509
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:31.920
challenging. The obstacles while they're many, and Lucas's push on mentality has tragic

510
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:36.880
consequences. Ian Ragnar don't see eye
to eye. In fact, that clergyman

511
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:44.719
is overwhelmed and he resents the guide. Rescued from death's door, Lucas is

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00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:50.800
taken in by a Danish widower called
Carl played by Jacob Hauberg. Lohman is

513
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:55.679
taken in by Carl and his two
daughters. Then I want to talk a

514
00:39:55.719 --> 00:40:00.480
little bit about the daughters, Anna
played by Vic Carmen Sonna and Ida Ida

515
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:06.320
mechan Hilsa. There warm to him, but not so the father, not

516
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:12.800
so Carl. More trials and clashes
follow for this young and ambitious Danish priest

517
00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:17.440
Lucas. So while I was watching
and admiring this art house picture, I

518
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:21.840
was reminded of a movie I saw
many times when I was studying film at

519
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:25.039
UNI, and it was one of
it just left such a lasting impression on

520
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:29.000
me. It was Werner Herzog's at
gear A, The Wrath of God.

521
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:31.480
I'm sure, Pete, you've seen
that one yet, Yes, yeah,

522
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I mean it was. I must
have seen it five or six times in

523
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:40.119
quick succession because we were studying elements
of it. Look that had a really

524
00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:45.039
significant and positive influence on me.
It was quite It's quite a movie.

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If you haven't seen it, it's
well worth catching. God Land also casts

526
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:54.559
quite a large shadow work of a
filmmaker called hilln Your Palmerson. He did

527
00:40:54.639 --> 00:41:00.559
a White White Day. It's a
story about losing one's identity. I'd say

528
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:04.400
arguably religions on trial here, and
it does not fare well. On one

529
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:08.480
level, the harsh terign sits comfortably
alongside the natural beauty that's inherent within it,

530
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:15.679
but on another, tolerance understanding and
respect as sorely tested. Elliott Crossett

531
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.760
plays the role of Lucas as humulus
and overwrought. It makes the man of

532
00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:27.519
the cloth unlikable, which again that's
quite something. In a contrasting role though

533
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:31.960
inver Ere Citizen is about Braun.
He's an outdoorsman who's in tune with nature,

534
00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:36.760
and all of what nature throws is
up. And it's difficult to understand

535
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.159
what Anne sis in the Clugi and
Lucas other than a way out of a

536
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:45.440
routine and colorless life. She was
born in Denmark and she longs to go

537
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:52.679
back there. She's the older daughter
of Karl who invites Lucas to basically saves

538
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:58.280
him. Vic Cammons Sonor brings a
measure of duty and warfth to her characterization,

539
00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:04.360
and there's a youthful exuberance about Ida
Mecan hillstod Deer as her younger sister,

540
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:09.760
Jacob Hauberg Lohman rather Principle not to
be crossed as the father, and

541
00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:15.239
Maria von Housewalls cinematography. I thought
that was luminous. It was shot on

542
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.920
thirty five millimeter film and the film
itself is square with rounded corners, and

543
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:23.800
it's got quite an arresting score as
well. That the music was really important

544
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:29.840
in this inspired by the way the
film god lain by seven photographs that were

545
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:32.159
actually taken by a Danish priest which
were thought to be the first of visual

546
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:37.880
images of Iceland's southeastern coast. It's
quite beautiful Godland, but it's also quite

547
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:44.960
brutal, so that contrast is there
emotionally fraught. To his credit, I

548
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:50.000
mean that's the movie. I just
thought that the filmmaker makes us think and

549
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:52.679
feel, and that's what Godland was
all about. For me. I thought

550
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:55.920
it was a very strong film,
but it's going to be of limited appeal.

551
00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:00.400
Jackie, have you seen it or
not? Alex. It's a very

552
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:06.639
very long film that I couldn't commit
to that time. But I wondered if

553
00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:13.760
it's reminded you at all of Silence
The Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield film,

554
00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:16.039
at least in the storyline. Yeah, there was that this isn't this isn't

555
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:22.559
less less mainstream. But yes,
yes it does have We thought Silence was

556
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:28.679
mainstream. No, but this is
really esoteric, this one more so,

557
00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:31.760
right, But but yes, yeah, it's certainly it's a it's a good

558
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:38.320
parallel that you you draw. Peter
Godland. Yes, this has already entered

559
00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:42.199
on my list of one of the
best films of the year. I was

560
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so impressed by this film, which
which really investigates the denotion of colonial invasion

561
00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:57.199
and of religious invasion of another country, even though Denmark was sort of looking

562
00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:01.719
after Iceland at the time. I
think the way the film is shot is

563
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.000
superb. It's shot an Academy ratio
for a reason, and that's because of

564
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:12.719
the photos that the priest takes,
and it sort of mimics the idea of

565
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:22.760
how this country, the priesthood,
the religious organization is so keen to invade,

566
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.800
if you like to put it that
way, that area of Iceland and

567
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:32.840
to imbue the Icelandic people with the
culture that they are meant to have.

568
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:37.880
Obviously, no good can come of
this, and that's what happened as the

569
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:44.920
film developed, beautifully shot, really
well acted, and it just drew me

570
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:49.360
in so much in terms of the
storyline, in terms of the issues that

571
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:55.480
the film delves into without being too
obvious and explicit, and the harsh environment,

572
00:44:55.639 --> 00:45:00.800
and it is so well shot.
To two Daughters I found very interesting

573
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because they represent two different aspects of
the way Icelandic people responded to Denmark and

574
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:16.079
how it was treating people, and
how religion was so important to people at

575
00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:22.840
the time and yet was also divisive
and to some extent quite ruinous for some

576
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.599
people. Very very impressive film.
I highly recommended. I urge people to

577
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:30.719
go and see Godland. And what
I loved in particular is that the film

578
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:36.719
has two titles, both called Godland, one in Danish one in Icelandic,

579
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:42.800
to give you the idea that here
are two countries trying to get together,

580
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:49.239
not in a very effective sort of
way. Would you agree, though this

581
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.199
is going to be a small audience
film, Just be aware it's not going

582
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.840
to suit everybody's toes. As I've
said a few times, yes, but

583
00:45:55.880 --> 00:46:00.440
again I always argue, so what
I mean every filmil to everyone. No,

584
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.000
But what I'm saying it is slow
moving and ultimately that there are going

585
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:08.280
to be people and say no,
it just doesn't suit my style. And

586
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:13.079
I think it's important that we don't
just say it's a great movie and everybody's

587
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.880
going to love it, and then
people go along under a Risknoma. That's

588
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:20.719
the reason I mentioned it isn't that
isn't that important? Well to some extent,

589
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:22.360
Yes, you've got to keep audience
in mind, but you'll also have

590
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.360
to be true to yourself in terms
of the way you review a film.

591
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:30.239
And I have very distinct parameters in
terms of the way I view films in

592
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.760
terms of writing and so on.
And if people don't want to go and

593
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:37.400
see the film based on my view, that's perfectly fine, or if they

594
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:43.159
do or everyone always has to make
up their own mind. Yeah, understand.

595
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:45.159
What about you, Greg, what
did you think of god Land?

596
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:51.000
Well? Jackie mentioned those couple of
films. I also thought a bit of

597
00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:54.800
role in Joffies The Mission with Robert
Guino and jury behinds. These supriests didn't

598
00:46:54.800 --> 00:47:00.679
do. I think it was South
American Wilder is somewhere as well evoke memories

599
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:05.800
of that to me. But I
thought this was a deliberately slow and usually

600
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:09.400
filmed there and it might be should
as everybody's tasty. In fact, I

601
00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:13.800
like the first half hour of the
first part of it, more so when

602
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:17.119
he the priest is tracking through his
past wilderness, which is beautifully shot there,

603
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:22.079
I thought by Maria von Holswolf.
There the second half of the film

604
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sort of yeah, it seems of
plenty iligim and religious, which period referred

605
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to left me a little bit cold
the second half of the film, especially

606
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as the press underdoes a crisis of
religious faith and everything. But yeah,

607
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I thought one hundred and forty three
minutes the past has stragged a little bit,

608
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but it is beautifully shot Scots,
some striking imagery and it looks beautiful

609
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there. But yeah, I just
sort of found halfway through the film a

610
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yeah, I just wanted to where
it said and when he's going to end?

611
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Okay, well, so what,
well, let's start with you.

612
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Then what's score you're going to give
god Land which runs for two hours and

613
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thirteen minutes, and his rat to
Mt Well I anything, you end up

614
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:04.719
giving it six because it was a
bit of a shot, very cinematic,

615
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but yeah, it is a bit
of a slog Okay, I'm giving it

616
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an eight out of ten, and
I dare say that, Peter, you're

617
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going to be the highball here.
Definitely. It's interesting, Greg, you

618
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mentioned that the mission because the mission
was very commercialized and used music elaborately to

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highlight emotion, whereas this film,
Godland doesn't use much music at all.

620
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It's more about what you experience and
visualize and so on. Anyway, I

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loved Godland nine out of ten.
Mm. Wow, Okay, now I

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wanted to We've got limited time left, but I've wanted to talk about a

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couple of players that I've seen if
I get the opportunity, So let me

624
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at least start with one that I
saw. It's interesting because it's a first

625
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time collaboration between two years Suitor and
Bella Moretto, and unfortunately won't get the

626
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opportunity to see this, but I
want you to remember those names because I

627
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dare say they're going to be making
some good theatrical productions in the future.

628
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This ran four, I think four
days or so at the MC show Room

629
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in Peran. It's called powder Room
Till we suit it. Tuia and Bella

630
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Moretto and the girls are out for
a night on the tiles at a club,

631
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but not all's going according to plan. In fact, there's no shortage

632
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of sad and mad faces amidst the
snorting and vomiting in the ladies toilets where

633
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:37.320
the action takes very much. So
yes, exactly that there's four filthy cubicles

634
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:44.719
right and they're full. Tiff,
played by Amelia Etnemit, is inconsolable after

635
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she caught out her long term boyfriend
Josh played by Zephyrin Zadwa or Jadwar rather

636
00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:53.760
getting it on with another woman,
and Hilarias seen early on, sums up

637
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the former's precarious state. Zan played
by Luce witherson Is is gay. She's

638
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:06.079
got the hots for a confident lady
who doesn't know she exists. Jamie Emelia

639
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:09.639
Dunne as her head in a bowl
and in between chucks calls out Tiff to

640
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grow a pair, so to speak. Scarlet as Kenworthy, is ropable that

641
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:17.360
a best friend appears to have stood
her up when they were going to do

642
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lines together. Wearing Sonny's piper des
It boil enters the fray late in the

643
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beast with three golden tips. Starting
with a perfect environment to pee now without

644
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angling for it, she finds herself
drawn into Scarlet's self centered world. Powder

645
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Room actually takes place over just a
single night, as friendships are forged and

646
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broken and homespun wisdom is imparted.
And it's the work of the writers and

647
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directors to his suit Her and Bella
Moretto, marking their first collaborative theatrical production

648
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:54.480
comedic drama. It's fun, it's
entertaining, it's provocative. Persona's really well

649
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crafted. The actors, individually and
collectively are forever putting their best foot forward

650
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to generate laughs. And perhaps it's
a youth here, but many of the

651
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characters actually don't seem to have the
tools to handle their respective circumstances. Arguably

652
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those that grow the most during the
course of proceedings at Tiff and Zan and

653
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:19.239
I really appreciated Amelia Nemett's realization of
the former. Actually, all the performers,

654
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though, have their moments. Colorful, graffiti strewn Washroom is a triumphant

655
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:28.159
setting. I entered the theater and
you think, wow, you know,

656
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and that doesn't often happen like this, but it does with this particular production

657
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:37.519
of powder Room. It was most
appropriate to the narrative arc Madison Stevens,

658
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:42.239
Ash Donovan Adam Smith are the ones
responsible. So Walk on the wild Side.

659
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It's a bit of a hoot.
It's been well composed and executed,

660
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:50.400
should hold particular appeal to younger millennials
and older members of Generation Z or Z

661
00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:55.119
fifty five minutes. It was playing
at the MC Showroom. Finished yesterday,

662
00:51:55.400 --> 00:52:02.039
But I really I was impressed by
the endeavors of two years Suitor and Bella

663
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Moretto. So I mean, I
like it when I'm seeing something that you

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know, I haven't seen before,
or some some some newbies come onto the

665
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scene. And it was a really
interesting It was a quite a full audience.

666
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:20.079
I saw it on Friday night and
it was that really aided the cause

667
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.519
because there was a lot of laughter
in the room and so on, and

668
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:29.079
unlike Strays, there weren't flat patches, which I appreciated. I thought it

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was sustained throughout. And the running
time was good too. You know under

670
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:36.360
an hour, you get in,
you get out, and you know you're

671
00:52:36.519 --> 00:52:38.440
feeling in a good mood afterwards,
which is Jackie, exactly what you were

672
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:45.599
saying about your girlfriend having seen Strays
and that could elevate your Do you think

673
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:52.679
your review of Strays was positively influenced
by your girlfriend. Yes, I think

674
00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:58.280
I just don't know that it couldn't
be because inevitably you're talking about it and

675
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.039
it's you know, even if you
thought, well, ho, hum or,

676
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:04.079
maybe I'll elevate it at least a
little bit. It's kind of like,

677
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:07.199
yeah, a little bit, Alex. But I did genuinely laugh out

678
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:13.920
loud at some of the humor,
air of cream chats some and gasp at

679
00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:17.079
other parts. But that but that's
the nature. But that's the nature of

680
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these sorts of movies, isn't it. Stray Stray sets out to to provide.

681
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.119
Wasn't breaking new ground and it won't
be a classic, but it won't

682
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:29.559
be it basic. No, No, by the way you say to me

683
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:34.920
during the week, Barbie is still
going strong and so many, so many

684
00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:39.360
what is it seated arrangements at cinemas
that there's still lots of screenings, et

685
00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:44.320
cetera. Correct. I was having
a chat yesterday I saw two films out

686
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:49.239
of ye Lego Cinemas in Hawthorne and
I was having a chat to an usher

687
00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:53.039
afterwards who said me, it's still
packing them out, really, isn't it

688
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:58.000
great? I think they have about
eight sessions a day of still fantastic,

689
00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:00.760
all right, folks, Good to
have you with us, Jackie Hamilton,

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thank you, Peter Krauss a pleasure, Gregory King and yours truly. Catch

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you next week on First On Film
and Entertainment,