The Life of Chuck Is a MASTERPIECE — So Why Did Everyone Ignore It？ - Error Code Show

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say to start with is basically almost without

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fail if I see a Stephen King adapted work that

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is not a horror film right it's pretty much guaranteed

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to be a banger right like it's gonna be awesome

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let's run through the list shall we stand by

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me Shawshank Green Mile right just Just go down

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those lows. OK. So when I heard that Tom Hiddleston

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was starring in a Stephen King adapted work called

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The Life of Chuck. Right. I was like, oh, I got

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to see this. This looks interesting. And I watched

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the trailers and I was like, huh, this is these

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are interesting, but I can't quite tell what

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this movie is about. Right. I can't I can't quite

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get there, but I'm going to go see it because

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again. Non -horror Stephen King. Adapt it. Yep.

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Like I'm going to give it a shot. Right. Why?

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Because everything else has been so good. Right.

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And I went and saw Life of Chuck and I texted

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Jay after I saw it. And Jay, I don't think has

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still seen it yet, but I will tell you this right

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now. It is one of the top 10 movies I've seen

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in the last five years. without breaking a sweat.

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Right? It's called Life of Chuck. That's right.

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Somebody in the chat named Chuck. Right? And

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it is absolutely fucking phenomenal. It's got

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a great cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor. Karen Gillian.

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Mark Hamill. Right? Who is playing a role that

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you wouldn't see. Right? Nick Offerman doing

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the narration of the film. Right like it is Start

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to finish just a great movie and it's one of

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those ones You got to sit with you're gonna sit

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there and watch it be like what did I just watch?

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right now to be fair to the moviegoing audience

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because I'm about to yell at you in a minute

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movie going audience I Don't know how you market

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this movie, right for me a big movie fan. I go,

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okay Stephen King, Tom Hiddleston, good looking

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cast, I'm gonna go see this movie, right? I don't

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know what it's about, but I got a good feeling.

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And I got a good feeling, and I was like, oh,

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it'll be good. And even like, Green Mile was

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good, wasn't great, but it was good. This movie

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was fucking phenomenal. It was so fucking good.

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Like, I still am thinking about how good this

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movie is, right? Is Hiddleston as good as he

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is in all the other stuff? Better. Even though

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he doesn't come in until the second act of the

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movie. It's and you watch this movie in the first

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third, you're like, what is happening? Oh, Matthew

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Lillard's in this movie. Like, it's just got

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just stacked with people. And there's so many

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little details as you go through it. You're like,

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oh, oh, I wanted to go see it. I just haven't

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had time. I was going to go see it again to see

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What I missed the first time I watched it because

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what the end I was like, I'm sure I missed stuff

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I'm a hundred percent positive. I missed stuff

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Here's where I'm gonna get mad Okay, because

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I hear movie fans and movie pilots, but movie

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fans, too, all the time. Everything's a Marvel

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movie. Everything's this. Everything's that.

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Everything's this. Why can't you guys do something

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new? Why can't we do something different? It's

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not Marvel. That's not an action. It's not fast.

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Mission impossible. Derivative, derivative, derivative.

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Motherfucker. This movie made eight point four

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million dollars. Which let me explain to you

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in this in the world of movies, that is nothing.

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Nothing. Right. They lost their buttholes on

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this movie. OK. It's made squat. Everybody gripes

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about nothing new, nothing original, everything's

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derivative, everything's crap. It all has to

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be this big action blockbuster. Right. This is

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the opposite of an action blockbuster This is

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the opposite of a Marvel MCU DC you direct all

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this shit you people complain about but nobody

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saw the fucking movie Except for like me and

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like four other people right So I'll say we get

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these great movies, right? Why do you think Jay?

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Nobody fucking watches them? Well few things

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one Marketing it's like you said, it's very easy

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to market a Marvel movie or even wicked Superman

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Superman anything that you can have like a display

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of Like at Target is kind of like what I'm thinking

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if you can create merch and sell it It's probably

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gonna be pretty good and then also I mean The

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reason why Marvel movies do so well is that's

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just like what the general population really

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is like looking for Like I don't know no one

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I think like one. Yes, it's marketing and then

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second The majority of people do you want these

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like action films? That they can take their children

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to and like you can take your daughter to a Marvel

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movie and you're going to enjoy the Marvel movie

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I'm aware you might not really enjoy the my little

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pony princess movie. I don't know but Yeah, I

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I Mean I could get into like a whole kind of

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rabbit hole of like that's where we're at. Let's

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rabbit hole We got time you guys and while we're

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rabbit hole they go and throw in those topics

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folks Because I I love somebody in the twitch

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chat just did a great jane silent bob quote Right

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from James Silent Bob strike back. You got to

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do the safe picture. Then you do the art picture.

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Then sometimes you got to do the paycheck picture

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because your friend says you owe him. Love that.

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Love that quote. Absolutely love that. So thank

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you for throwing that in there. Nice. Go down

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your rabbit hole. Here we go. I I think we have

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fucked ourselves. Sorry. Put the children away.

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Go ahead and pause this if you're We're demonetized.

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We're demonetized. I think we have fucked ourselves.

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Our attention span is getting shorter and shorter.

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No one can sit or I can't say no one. The majority

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of people can not sit through a hour and a half

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or two and a half hour movie. That's a super

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deep movie that doesn't have like, I don't know.

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Fucking explosions and transformers coming out

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of. You know someone's tits. I'm sorry But yeah,

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I think that's why kind of where we're at is

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the majority of people do not have the attention

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span to sit through these like really in -depth

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like movies that make you question and go holy

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shit like Am I an alien? You know like I don't

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know that's that's my like personal personal

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thought because we're all Conditioning ourselves

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every single day to scroll on social media And

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I think the majority of people don't realize

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it, but you're doing it to yourselves and you

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think it's making yourself happy and it's fucking

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not. And here's the thing. I am one of those

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people. I spend a lot of time on social media.

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I spend a lot of time on the TikToks and the

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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yes,

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I do. I have in recent months found myself getting

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bored at movies where I'm like, come on, speed

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it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. But when I

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think about like when I went and saw Life of

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Chuck, right? It was the first time I'd been

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to a movie in a long time and not once did I

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go How much longer is this movie, right? Like

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it I was riveted the whole fucking film, right?

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And the best way I can describe it is it is a

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meditation on life Right, but it doesn't feel

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preachy and it's also not negative. It's a positive

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meditation on life That makes you feel better

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about life and death Like And again, I wasn't

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bored at all Right. What I'm saying is is how

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do you convince people to go back? I don't necessarily

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think you're wrong. But again, I think that there

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are great films out there that That I think would

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would bring people back to the cinema. How do

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we get them back in the fucking door? I don't

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know. I mean, that that is a probably a multimillion

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dollar question. Other question. Now, I will

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say this, to be fair, for this year's box office

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stuff, I'm actually a little surprised. So, by

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this point last year, we had movies joining the

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billion dollar club, right? Now, most of them

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are all derivative. This year, we have not, right?

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That Nezha 2's box office is very much in question

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because it's not independently verified. So,

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while Box Office Mojo is reporting it as reported,

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please note that Nezha 2 is not verified. So

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let's go to our top one after that. Minecraft

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movie didn't hit a billion. Did well, extremely

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well. Lilo and Stitch. I'm surprised that hasn't

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hit a billion, but it's only 50 million away.

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It's still in theaters. I think it's gonna break

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it. And then it's a big jump down. Mission Impossible,

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563. How to Train Your Dragon's still out. I

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think it'll get to six. Captain America really

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underperformed Thunderbolts for as good as it

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was. And it was a great fucking movie. Probably

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the best MCU movie in the last couple of years.

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It really underperformed sinners. I think did

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about what it was supposed to. But again, you're

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talking Snow White is the top 10 in the top 10

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this year so far. Like it's going to fall out

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because of F1. It's going to jump over it. But

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Mickey 17 came out this year again. Newer stuff

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different things and nobody fucking saw it Karate

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Kid legends derivative, but getting good Elio,

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I think Elio we're gonna see what kind of wings

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what kind of sorry what kind of legs Elio has

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that's gonna be interesting Somebody in the in

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the Twitch chat mentioned the episode three re

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-release, which did very, very well for them.

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It made fifty five million dollars. And I too

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went to see it, mostly because I wanted my daughter

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to see Star Wars in a movie theater because it's

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a different experience in the movie theater.

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Yeah. I don't know. But here's the other thing.

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Again, I'm going to come back to this. If you

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are out there griping about people about what

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Hollywood's making, Hollywood's going to make

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what you're paying them to make. And if all you

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pay them to make is the Minecraft movie, that's

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all they're going to make. Right. You you you

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you you have to go see the other ones. It reminds

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me of the Zemeckis one I saw last year that nobody

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else saw. It was Tom Hanks and Robin Penn or

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Robin Wright. Right. Reuniting for the first

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time since Forrest Gump. Great cast, all this

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thing. Robert Zemeckis. It was a great movie

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and nobody saw it. What did that movie make last

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year? I'm now curious. It made fuck all. Probably

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made more than Life of Chuck. Yes, but not by

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much. It made drum roll, please. This is Robert

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Zemeckis. Doing Tom Hanks and Robin right it

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made 16 million dollars 16 million dollars for

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a Tom Hanks movie Stop saying Hollywood's not

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making original movies. They're making great

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movies. They make lots of movies. Nobody fucking

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sees them Go watch movies people. They're good.

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And if you haven't seen it in fact, I'm gonna

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do this right now, right? What is it gonna come

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to streaming probably soon Trying to see when

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no word on when it's gonna come straight when

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it comes to streaming, please watch it. Please

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watch it Okay, I'm telling you. Oh wait, maybe

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you can watch it now. I think you can get it

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on Apple now On iTunes Yeah, so great go go rent

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that movie pay to rent that movie cuz it's a

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that good and be give them some of that money

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back So The entire country's in a depression,

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possibly. They're all sad. This is why you need

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to watch movies like Life of Chuck, because it's

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life affirming and happy.