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The Movie Club, a podcast for people that love movies.

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What, a car?

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I kill him, Gilbert.

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You complete me.

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What's up, daddy?

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We're going streaky!

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Because there's no crying in baseball.

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Nobody puts baby in the corner.

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Do you understand the words?

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You're goddamn right I did!

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You have six fingers on your right hand.

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Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

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All right, it's Die Hard.

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Die Hard.

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The non-Christmas movie?

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Or the Christmas movie.

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We'll be determined.

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We'll figure that out.

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I feel like there's going to be varying opinions in this room.

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I feel like... I know what my opinion is.

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Yeah, I think it's varying.

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And I have a feeling that it varies from mine.

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Well, I'm Katie.

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And I'm Erica.

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And I'm Ryan.

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And I'm John.

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Why do you think I'm going to vary from you?

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i just have a feeling that you're you're contrarian and uh and even if all the

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facts point otherwise that you will be on the other side of this and i also know

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that based on erica's laws of the christmas movie this meets every law of her

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christmas movie does it does it have snow or snow it has christmas trees at the end

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it has snow it has it does it has christmas mute no fake snow

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Well, it might be debris from the blown up building, but it looks like snow.

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I thought it looked pretty like sheets of paper.

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Yeah, it was sheets of paper.

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It was.

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It's white.

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It's snow.

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No, it doesn't have snow.

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It doesn't have Santa.

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I'm not sure it brings on the feels.

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Oh, it definitely brought the feels.

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When?

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The whole movie.

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When were you feeling it?

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The love between John and Holly.

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You felt that?

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I felt it the whole time.

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Okay, I'll pause that.

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Okay, all right.

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I didn't feel like it was a love story.

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No, I didn't feel that much.

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I didn't think their chemistry was that great.

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No.

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On his end it was.

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What does that mean?

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They weren't actually filmed together that much.

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I think it was actually a love story between him and Sergeant Al Powell.

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Now that I agree with.

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There was a bromance happening there.

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I still look at him as Sergeant Carl Winslow.

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He's Carl Winslow.

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The only thing that would have made this movie better is if Urkel had been the limo driver.

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that would have been badass and then when he comes barreling through at the end he

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goes like did i do that

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That would have been alternative ending.

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Except I'm pretty sure this movie came out before.

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It doesn't matter.

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It would have been great.

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So I hadn't seen this movie before, but I was so surprised by how many.

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This was the first time you watched Die Hard.

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Can we cover this for a second?

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Because neither Erica and Ryan, neither of you have seen this before.

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This is your first time, right?

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I saw it before her.

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Because you watched it one day before her.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah.

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Wow, I didn't realize that.

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I think I assumed that Ryan hadn't seen it.

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I'm good.

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There's not enough editing in the world for you.

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I'm so sorry.

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I am a multiple sneezer and I can't help it.

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Three, not enough.

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I usually go four or five.

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And sometimes I slip a six one in there.

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You know, you don't you don't even know what to expect.

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So I'll let you know the next time it's happening.

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And so I did see the movie like a day or two before her.

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Yeah, it's true.

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Caitlin, when did you see this movie?

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Like when I was younger.

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I saw this movie probably when it came out.

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I did not.

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And we're off.

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I watch it pretty much every year.

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The movie was like 10 years old when you came out.

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Is it a Christmas tradition for you to watch this?

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Yes, Erica, it is.

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So, all right.

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I'm going to kick off the ratings because John thinks I hated the movie.

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I don't think you hated it.

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I think that you think it wasn't a Christmas movie.

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No, it definitely is a Christmas movie.

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Wow.

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I did not expect that.

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A thousand percent a Christmas movie.

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And I'm going to give this out of, we're doing out of 10, right?

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Yeah.

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10.

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I'm going to go eight.

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Eight.

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Okay.

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Who's next?

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I'm an 8.7.

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I really like it.

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Wow.

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8.7.

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Yes.

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That's not as obscure as your other rating.

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8.7.

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I could go 873.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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I like that number combination.

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Anyway.

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I gave it an 8.5.

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I am going to say like a 9.5.

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Wow.

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And the reason I'm that high is because I'm putting this into an action level.

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Genre?

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Action Christmas.

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And I think because for action movies,

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I think this sets the precedent of what an action movie should be.

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Because of that,

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I think it deserves an amazing score because this is,

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to me,

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one of the great action movies ever.

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Yeah, I don't disagree.

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Yeah.

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So 9-5.

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Well, IMBD gave it an 8.2 out of 10.

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I was the closest.

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Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 94%.

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I was closest.

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Ebert gave it two out of four stars.

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I was the closest there, too.

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Harsh.

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Yeah.

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Why do you like it?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I'm not in agreement with a lot of his ratings.

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Me either, actually.

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Same.

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And you know what I noticed,

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too,

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when we did the Christmas episode,

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he gave a lot of the Christmas episodes really bad ratings.

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He's a snob.

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I don't think he celebrated Christmas.

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Doesn't like Christmas.

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Yeah.

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which just verifies that this is a Christmas movie.

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That's right.

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Good point.

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Good point.

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So we got three Christmas movies.

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Does anybody here think it's not a Christmas movie?

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Better find a new place to go home to.

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I don't know.

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I can't put in there.

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I don't know.

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So three of us think it's a Christmas movie.

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Is that correct?

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Yes, I think it's a Christmas movie.

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I'm down for Christmas.

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I'm saying no.

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I can't put it on my Christmas movie checklist of movies to watch.

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Okay, good.

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So we do have a varying opinion here, which is good.

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I didn't want four people who thought it was a Christmas movie.

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So Erica, why do you not think it's a Christmas movie and why are you wrong?

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Because there's no Santa Claus to sit on his lap.

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There's no Santa Claus or snow.

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There's no.

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But there is a guy in a sweatshirt with a ho, ho, ho.

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Yeah.

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There's a lot of Christmas trees.

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It takes place during Christmas.

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They're at a Christmas party.

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It's not necessarily Christmas Eve.

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I think it was Christmas Eve.

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Who has a work party on Christmas Eve?

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I do agree that that's not very realistic, but I think they say that it is Christmas Eve.

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She's on the phone with the kids.

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You have to get to bed before Santa comes.

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Oh, really?

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So it is Christmas Eve.

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Did you not watch his movie?

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Yes, that's what I'm saying.

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Not realistic.

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We probably wouldn't be having a work party on Christmas Eve.

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But who knows?

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I mean, they're in California.

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Well, that was one crazy party.

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I gotta tell you, I was thinking about this.

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I was thinking about this because I watched it and I'm like,

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right off the bat,

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the owner of the company goes walking in and Ellis is doing a line off of Holly's desk.

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yeah and then he just not even his own desk and he's clearly doing a line off the

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desk and uh what's the owner's name have we figured that out yet so first time

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seeing the movie i don't know what you thought we didn't we didn't talk about the

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movie we watched it we didn't talk about it

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he was doing the line off her desk.

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When he jumped up and everybody walked in the room, I fully expected Holly to be under the desk.

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Oh yeah, I thought for sure that's what was going on.

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Wait, are you serious?

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My mind never went there.

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He jumped up.

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He was trying to get with her earlier in the movie.

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She wanted nothing to do with him.

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Right, but he jumped up where people walked in.

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And John walked in.

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I'm like, oh, she's under the desk.

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No, not Holly.

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Wrong.

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He was doing a line right off her ass.

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That would have changed that dynamic right to an NC-17 rating on that one.

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No, Holly's a sweetheart.

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She is trying to salvage this marriage that John is trying to destroy.

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Holly's hanging in there with this thing, I think.

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Erica's giving me a switch.

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No, you think she's out?

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No, I don't think she's out.

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She seems so excited when John shows up and he's there.

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And then she's like, will you stay with us?

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The kids would love it.

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But that's where I'm like, he wasn't even going to stay with them?

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How bad is their relationship that he flew across the country and he wasn't going

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to stay with it?

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And she was fully planning on him staying.

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In the beginning, she was planning on it because she had a room made up for him.

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But the way she said it, like, you could stay with us.

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Like, you make plans on where you're going to stay.

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So, like, did he have a hotel room?

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Possibly a pot hole.

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No, he was going to stay with his friend.

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And I thought the house, the nanny was making up the room for her to stay.

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By the way, Holly's doing pretty, pretty well.

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She's making some money, Holly is.

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I mean, she's got a nanny at home.

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We know her house is banging.

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It has to be.

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What?

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You know she has a big-ass house with her nanny and her spare room for John,

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which she does admit isn't that big,

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though.

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She says that.

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I think John's a little jealous of this house.

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We didn't see the house.

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We never did.

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We just saw the one room.

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the kitchen or whatever they were in when she was on the phone.

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Oh, right.

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The maid.

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Are you sure you've seen this movie?

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Yeah, the maid was on the phone.

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When she said she, I thought you meant Holly, but I don't remember ever seeing her on the phone.

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Erica, would you like to also tell us your reasons for it not being a Christmas movie?

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Does it not bring on the feels at the end when they dry hump in the limo at the end?

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We don't see that.

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We don't necessarily see all that,

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but we just assume that's what happens on the ride back to the house.

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Is that what makes it a Christmas movie?

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That's what made it a Christmas movie for me.

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You know, Argyle is like... You know, because those things have dividers in them.

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I got it.

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I really loved it.

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I feel like I could watch it any time of year.

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Funny.

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It doesn't have to be Christmas.

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Like most Christmas movies, I only want to watch at Christmas.

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I agree with that.

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You could plop it in another.

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You could, but I wouldn't.

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Plop it?

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No.

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What?

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Would you just say plop it?

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It could have been a Halloween party or Thanksgiving.

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Definitely not Halloween.

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There's Christmas trees.

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No.

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Okay, obviously.

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But like the storyline.

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You can put it in between Law and Order and CSI.

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It'd be okay watching it.

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Honestly, you don't have to watch this during Christmas.

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You can watch it anytime.

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For a Christmas movie that really stands alone.

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I think I'm with Katie here.

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I'm going to make this a Christmas tradition.

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Good.

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Me too.

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Although my kids have to be old enough to see it.

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There is boob in this movie.

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Yes.

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And it's right in the beginning.

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The girl comes running out of the office.

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Yeah, when Hans Gruber and all of them come up.

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They're ripping people out of the office.

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You know what?

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What's wrong with that?

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It's part of the human body.

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Nothing.

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I just don't want to watch a movie next to...

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My kids seeing boobs for the first time.

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Make it uncomfortable for all of us on that couch.

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Walk us through this movie, Katie.

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OK, so it was directed by John McTiernan, who refused to direct the movie like several times.

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They came to him to do this and he did not want to do it.

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And finally, he did agree to it, but he changed the script a lot.

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And he was really the one that insisted on the humor aspect of it.

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Can I say something about that?

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He directed Predator, which he did one year prior to this, which was in 1987.

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This came out in 88.

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And it was produced by a guy named Joel Silver.

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I didn't know this.

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This was brand new to me.

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So Joel Silver, the producer, was also involved with Commando, Lethal Weapon, and Predator.

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So these are like for the late 80s, these are the top action movies of their day.

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So Silver and McTiernan are like, you know, really, really high end guys.

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And for a movie that got shot down by a lot of people,

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they at least had the director and the producer like right from the beginning.

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It was written by Jeb Stewart and Stephen E. DeSawa.

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And Jeb Stewart was originally the writer on it.

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And he basically got fired by McTiernan because he really didn't know how to add

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the humor aspect to it.

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So he brought in Stephen DeSawa.

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And our main actors here are Bruce Willis plays John McClane.

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Alan Rickman is Hans Gruber.

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Bonnie Bedelia is Holly Gennaro, and Reginald Bell Johnson is Sergeant Al Powell.

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Devereaux White is Argyle,

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and William Atherton plays Richard Thornburn,

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who is the news broadcaster that comes and interviews the kids.

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Now, did you see who had the right of first refusal for the role?

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Oh, I did.

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Okay.

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Were you getting to that?

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Mr. Blue Eyes and stuff.

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You guys know this?

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No.

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Yeah, this is an interesting story.

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So I don't know the name of the movie that came first.

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The Detective.

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The Detective.

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So this movie had a clause in it that if any sequel came from it,

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that the leading role had to be offered to Frank Sinatra.

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And even though this movie wasn't an exact sequel,

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it qualified under whatever their contract was.

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The leading role in the movie?

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Yes.

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John McClane could have been played by Frank Sinatra.

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That would have been awful.

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Dude, imagine that.

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Yeah, I mean, he reasonably turned it down and...

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Why did he have first writer refusal?

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Because he was the lead in the movie The Detective.

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And so they were thinking about doing like a sequel and there was some type of

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contract that said he would get first dibs on that role.

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So I don't know if you guys will like this or not,

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but I want you to think of Frank Sinatra in this role,

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right?

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And then the movie ends, and it's Frank Sinatra who lets Hans Gruber go, and then this plays.

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Hang on one second.

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I just wanted you to hear this.

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this is as he's falling that's life that's what all the people could you imagine

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him just singing this to hans as he's falling from the building that would have

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been such a bad no it would have been an awful awful honestly it wouldn't have made

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sense because sinatra obviously wouldn't have fit this role at all but it's

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interesting that he even had a um chance to turn it down

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Yeah, but I mean, even Bruce Willis was not their number one pick in any possible way.

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They wanted to go with Schwarzenegger.

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And like this is the late 80s.

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This is when Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

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It was the muscle bound time for like the guys who did action movies were like jacked, you know.

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which made this movie so interesting that I guess those guys all turned it down and

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then they had to turn the walls.

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Burt Russell, or I'm sorry, Burt Reynolds.

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I think he was still on Santa Claus.

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Let me tell you someone who turned it down.

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Burt Russell.

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James Caan was another one.

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It's also Kurt Russell, by the way.

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I know.

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I combined it.

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James Caan turned this down?

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Yeah, Richard Gere.

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But their number one pick that they wanted was Clint Eastwood.

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He would have been good in this.

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I could see Clint Eastwood.

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He would have been great, actually.

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He read the script, and he said he didn't get the humor of it.

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He'd have been like, yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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Maybe because we see Bruce Rollins in the movie, we just know.

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It's hard to, yeah.

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Yeah, but he just looks like John McClane.

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Right.

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I know, but I could see Clint Eastwood doing that.

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He's able to do that serious and comedic.

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Yeah.

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Have you seen Dirty Harry, though?

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Dirty Harry movies were so freaking good,

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and they actually did fit the John McClane character,

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I think.

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Speaking of Bruce Willis,

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did you know that what made him kind of interesting for this pick is that he was on

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a sitcom show called Moonlighting during his time with Sybil Shepard.

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And this was before it was a really big leap for people to go from TV to cinema.

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So it was kind of a big jump for him and for the studio to pick him.

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moonlighting the only reason he had a chance to do this is because anybody anyone

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anyone sybil shepherd was pregnant so she gets pregnant and moonlighting needs to

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take a hiatus from filming and that's what opened up yeah that's what gave him the

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opportunity because he didn't want to give up this you know that was his like meal

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ticket

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And this is his first movie.

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Yes.

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Now, something about the show Moonlighting.

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I don't know why I'm going to keep going back to Moonlighting.

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But it's a weird, it's an obscure kind of show.

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I remember watching it because it was like what we watched back then.

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But I looked it up and I'm like, OK, so you got Bruce Willis, Sybil Shepard.

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Now you look back and those are like two pretty big names.

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But there were guest stars in this show that really jumped out at me.

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Tim Robbins,

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C.

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Thomas Howe,

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Orson Welles,

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Richard Belzer,

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Whoopi Goldberg,

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Judd Nelson,

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Paul Servino.

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Do you remember him?

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Goodfellas.

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Pierce Bronson,

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Robert Wohl,

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John Goodman,

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and Demi Moore all had had guest appearances in this show,

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and it's like,

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damn,

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that show was pulling some serious talent back then,

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so...

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Is it Moonlighting?

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Moonlighting.

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It was a mid-80s.

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I don't think you would call it a sitcom because it was like a drama.

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But he was very snarky in that, too.

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He had that snarky sense of humor, which apparently he says he used his South Jersey humor.

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So he must be pretty local.

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I didn't know that.

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Well,

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when the trailer actually hit the theaters,

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viewers basically laughed at the fact that this was Bruce Willis in this action role.

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So at that point,

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the production company actually decided to take his picture off the promotion poster.

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I mean,

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if people knew him as character on Moonlighting,

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and this is a totally completely different role for him.

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I mean,

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if every action movie was Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger,

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these bulked up steroid out it guys.

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This was the first movie that put like a dude who just looked like the average guy in that role.

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So it really did kind of like this movie is going to suck.

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Yeah.

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And it ended up just being a picture of the building until they started bringing in

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money and they added his face back onto it.

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Yeah.

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Yet he's still got five mil.

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That's all he got for the movie?

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Well, I guess back then.

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1988.

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At that time, he was the highest paying actor from that contract.

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Wow.

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And it made over $140 million.

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They were nominated for four Academy Awards,

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Best Sound,

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Best Film Editing,

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Best Effects Sound,

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Effects Editing,

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and Best Effects Visual Effects.

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And Best Picture.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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It was the best holiday movie.

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Why was everybody so negative on this movie when it was coming out?

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because it was so different than the typical action film.

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I think this was kind of the first film that really added that humor aspect.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I mean, Schwarzenegger dominated action movies and Stallone.

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It was all Commando, Terminator, Stallone was- Rambo.

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Rambo, exactly.

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It was like that same kind of person.

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yeah and I think like I read that a lot of the actors that turned it down said they

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turned it down because he seemed like a wimp and like that he was just trying to

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get outside help and not but it's like that's a real person yeah he was just an

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ordinary cop like a cop you know that if this was a Schwarzenegger based movie it

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would have been so different he would have just toured his fucking terrorist the

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park movie over like there would have been no see but you can't put Schwarzenegger

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into a detective role like

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Kindergarten cop.

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I was just going to say that.

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Yeah, Bruce Willis is a normal average Joe who's a police officer.

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Well, that's what made the movie work.

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But it's also what I think made them think the movie wouldn't work.

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is that he wasn't a heroine that could like the rambo thing was rambo went into

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vietnam and like you know destroyed them all like that's the movie he just went in

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and tore everybody up or this was a guy who like clearly was outnumbered and he got

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messed up the whole time like it

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It was so, I think the realism of it.

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This was much more my speed than Rambo or any of the other ones.

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I just wasn't into those.

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Oh, I totally agree.

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I think this works on a different level for sure.

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How about you open your Christmas presents?

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Oh, that would be great.

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Speaking of Christmas.

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Well, this movie must have put you in the Christmas mood.

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It did.

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This non-Christmas movie made me go out and get a gift.

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Well, I'm going to open my Christmas present.

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This is so sweet.

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Thank you so much.

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You're sitting there.

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You're welcome.

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For this back scratcher.

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Oh my goodness.

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there's a lot of good things in there our night just got extended oh my goodness

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there's so many flavors and it does wow it doubles as a scratch oh it does you know

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what candy cane it does work

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Booze.

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It's a candy cane full of alcohol.

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Wow.

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We got 99 bananas.

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Oh, 99.

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99 peppermint.

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Actually, I see a theme.

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The 99 theme.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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99 berries was what I drank like freshman year.

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It's in there.

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I have one.

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Is it one of them?

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All right, guys.

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Yeah.

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We all have the same.

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We always did the bananas.

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Wait, do we open it from the bottom?

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Variety in here.

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So as we're playing with our new gifts...

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Your favorite scene of the movie?

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My favorite scene in the movie?

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The whole movie?

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Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

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Why say something that you know you're not going to keep?

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I feel like you should have let me say it.

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That way it may not have gotten edited out later.

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All right, I'm going to say it.

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That way we can keep it.

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What's your favorite scene of the movie?

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Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

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I like when she gets married.

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That is also my favorite scene.

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Nice, nice, nice.

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Are you still there?

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Yeah, I'm still here.

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Unless you want to open the front door for me.

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I'm afraid not.

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But you have me at a loss.

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You know my name, but who are you?

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Just another American who saw too many movies as a child.

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Another orphan of a bankrupt culture.

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This is John Wayne.

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Rambo.

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Marshall Dillon.

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I was always kind of partial to Roy Rogers, actually.

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I really like those sequins.

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Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?

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Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

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Does Roy Rogers say yippee-ki-yay?

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I don't know.

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I think that was ad-lib.

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That could be.

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Like, I didn't know if Yippee-ki-yay was like a famous Western saying.

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I don't know.

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I know I've said it all my life.

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This is where it came from.

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That's pretty cool.

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It didn't come from Roy Rogers?

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I don't know.

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Google it.

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Somebody Google it.

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I feel like it was kind of a very Western kind of thing to say.

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Sounds like it.

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Yippee-ki-yay.

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Well, that's not yippee-ki-yay, though, is it?

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That's yippee-ki-yo-ki-ay.

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Two very, very distinctly different things.

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Yippee-i-yo-ki-ay.

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Now you introduce the third one.

(00:28:04):
Come on.

(00:28:05):
Kay's favorite part of the movie was your favorite.

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Roy Rogers said, Yippee-i-oh-ki-ay.

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Exactly.

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Yippee-i-oh-ki-ay.

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He did?

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I guess it.

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Yippee-i-oh-ki-ay.

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This was later popularized as the cowboy actor Roy Rogers' own Yippee-ki-ay kids on

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the Roy Rogers show.

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Wow.

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Dude, you think we could find a clip of Roy Rogers saying it?

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I'm pretty sure.

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Oh, that would be amazing.

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I think we can make that happen.

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I don't know.

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Roy Rogers.

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Yippee.

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You know what?

(00:28:38):
All right, guys.

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Something's about.

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Now I get why Erica really wanted us to open that up earlier.

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Hold on to your seats, ladies and gentlemen.

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He sounds just like Bruce Willis here.

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Mm hmm.

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There it is.

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This definitely doesn't have the punch.

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Okay.

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I'm with Bruce Willis on this one.

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He did it much better.

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You know what's funny about that?

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Nothing.

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How did you get Yippee-Ki-Yay motherfuckers?

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That's fantastic that they did that.

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That's great.

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You thought that was a John McLean original?

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I just had never heard anyone say yippee-ki-yay before, but I didn't watch Roy Rogers movies.

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That was more my mom's speed.

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Erica, what's your favorite part of the movie?

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Uh...

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Oh, that's good.

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Jeez.

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Can I go with my favorite part?

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My favorite part?

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Play my clip.

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Oh, okay.

(00:30:01):
Sure.

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Yeah, okay.

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You know what?

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It's cool you named your clip after yourself.

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That way I knew exactly who to play it for.

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That's why I named it that way.

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You named it asshole.

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This is my favorite part.

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You listen to me, you little asshole.

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I'm an asshole.

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I'm not the one who just got buttfucked on national TV, Dwayne.

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Now you listen to me, Jerkoff.

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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

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Quit being part of the fucking problem and put the other guy back on.

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All right.

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I did love that part.

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That was a great part.

(00:30:32):
This is when he's talking to the police chief, right?

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Yes.

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Do you know what movie he is in?

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You said it yesterday.

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Shit.

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No.

(00:30:40):
The police chief died.

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You do.

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You know what movie he's in.

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He does look so familiar.

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Paul Gleason.

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He is the principal in The Breakfast Club.

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You're right.

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I know I'm right.

(00:30:53):
There were a lot of really famous people in here.

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Even when Hans came on, I was like, I know that voice.

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I know that voice.

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I was like, that is Snape.

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Did you know this was... And I know.

(00:31:01):
What?

(00:31:06):
You didn't know who Alan Rickman was?

(00:31:09):
No, I was like, he's... Who's Alan Rickman?

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Hans Gruber.

(00:31:12):
No, he didn't.

(00:31:14):
Like, we watched all this.

(00:31:15):
You've never seen any of the Harry Potter movies?

(00:31:16):
Harry Potter.

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No.

(00:31:18):
He's like, oh, no, I didn't pay attention.

(00:31:20):
Potter, Potter.

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No, I don't watch.

(00:31:23):
Harry Potter was... No, that's like the godfather for me.

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Not here.

(00:31:27):
Not here.

(00:31:27):
What?

(00:31:28):
It's too long.

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They're not too long.

(00:31:31):
The books are 4,000 pages long.

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The movie's like six hours.

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Forget it.

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Too much.

(00:31:35):
No, the movies are two hours each.

(00:31:37):
Yeah, it's too much.

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Not good.

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It just wasn't my thing.

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I don't know.

(00:31:42):
Me and the kids like it.

(00:31:44):
that's fine um did you know that this was uh what's his name alan rickman's uh

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first movie yeah he was discovered in the theater uh so there's two people that

(00:31:58):
really really made i mean this movie shot their careers like in the orbit now we

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can't say the same for holly so i know her from the show parenthood

(00:32:14):
She is the mother or grandmother of the whole family.

(00:32:20):
Wow.

(00:32:20):
In parenthood?

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In parenthood, yes.

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No, the show.

(00:32:23):
The show Parenthood.

(00:32:24):
Yeah.

(00:32:24):
Not the critically acclaimed movie Parenthood.

(00:32:27):
Well, the show is incredible.

(00:32:28):
I highly recommend it.

(00:32:29):
It is a really good show.

(00:32:31):
There's great acting.

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The storyline is awesome.

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If you're a Gilmore Girls fan, Lauren Graham is in it.

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Hi.

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It's really good.

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And...

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Some backscratcher.

(00:32:45):
Hold on.

(00:32:47):
Yeah.

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Bobby Nash.

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9-1-1.

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He's in it.

(00:32:53):
Dax Shepard is in it.

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Yeah.

(00:32:56):
Yeah.

(00:32:56):
Parenthood was a great show.

(00:32:59):
Great movie.

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Yeah.

(00:33:00):
Well, the show, I think the show was really good though.

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Okay.

(00:33:04):
Dax Shepard was in Craig T. Nelson.

(00:33:08):
He was Hayden Fox is her husband in it.

(00:33:10):
He was Hayden Fox?

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Not in Paranoid.

(00:33:14):
No, Craig T. Nelson is the dad of the grandfather and he's married to Bonnie Bedelia.

(00:33:22):
Oh, interesting.

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But I don't know her from any other movies.

(00:33:26):
That's the only thing I know her from.

(00:33:27):
Yeah.

(00:33:28):
Huh.

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And the guy who really should have taken off is obviously Alice.

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Come on.

(00:33:37):
That guy was great.

(00:33:39):
Alice, the coke sniffing.

(00:33:41):
Oh, that guy.

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He's like, hey, baby, let me tell you something.

(00:33:45):
I liked Argyle.

(00:33:46):
Argyle, also, I don't think we saw him again.

(00:33:49):
Argyle, has he done anything else outside of Die Hard?

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Because I thought he was fantastic.

(00:33:54):
He was the little kid in that own golden pond.

(00:34:00):
They did his role really well.

(00:34:04):
They gave him just enough air time, just enough spoken word.

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I feel like he should have skyrocketed after this because it's like

(00:34:18):
They didn't overexpose him.

(00:34:20):
It's like he got enough good shit in.

(00:34:22):
He really should have taken off from this.

(00:34:24):
He did well.

(00:34:24):
He reminds me of, we were talking earlier, Josh Johnson on The Daily Show.

(00:34:29):
He's the news correspondent.

(00:34:30):
He's the same role.

(00:34:31):
He's just unassuming.

(00:34:33):
He's there and he's funny.

(00:34:34):
All very like...

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He didn't make it.

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Not great movies, yeah, that I've never heard of.

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Argyle?

(00:34:40):
Yeah.

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But I did want to bring this up,

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because I just saw him on...

(00:34:44):
There's a show on Netflix that I've told you guys about before called The Movies

(00:34:49):
That Made Us.

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And they have different episodes about very popular movies,

(00:34:55):
and they interview directors,

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writers,

(00:34:58):
all the people that were involved in making it.

(00:34:59):
Sometimes there's some of the actors on there, too.

(00:35:02):
And Argyle, Deborah White was...

(00:35:05):
They did one about Die Hard?

(00:35:07):
Yeah, they did.

(00:35:07):
Yeah.

(00:35:08):
I didn't watch that.

(00:35:09):
So he was on there.

(00:35:10):
Bonnie Bedelia was also on there, too.

(00:35:13):
And William Atherton.

(00:35:14):
So they interviewed them.

(00:35:16):
Which one's William Atherton?

(00:35:18):
He's that newscaster that goes and interviews.

(00:35:20):
Oh, from the Ghostbusters.

(00:35:22):
Yes, he's from Ghostbusters, too.

(00:35:24):
He plays a really good jerk.

(00:35:27):
Do we know why Holly punches him at the end of the movie?

(00:35:30):
Because he interviewed,

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he went to their house,

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found out where they lived,

(00:35:35):
interviewed their children,

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and put them on the news.

(00:35:38):
Did she see that?

(00:35:39):
Yes, because Hans is watching it.

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That's also how he finds out that she is McLean's wife.

(00:35:46):
i thought he lifted up the picture frame and saw well that was after he was

(00:35:50):
watching the news oh okay now it makes more sense i didn't realize that he put that

(00:35:55):
together yeah that's he's smarter than i am that's a big that haunts faking that

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accent smart cookie i gotta tell you that was actually my favorite part i don't

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think i have a clip of it i could possibly find it but

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when McClane finds Hans alone, and then he fakes that American accent.

(00:36:17):
Oh, yeah.

(00:36:17):
Love that.

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That was actually... Alan Rickman was off-camera just fucking around and, like...

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did an american accent and like was just goofing around with it and they decided to

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incorporate that yeah and that's when he ended up doing it and what's funny is

(00:36:38):
watching it again even i was just like um like i was i forgot so much about this

(00:36:44):
movie so i could see it almost a lot of it from the first time

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And I'm like, man, McClane, you're getting played.

(00:36:50):
Like, you're not smart in this?

(00:36:52):
Hands him a gun and stuff?

(00:36:53):
And then I didn't even realize he handed him a gun with a...

(00:36:56):
I did go...

(00:36:56):
In that scene,

(00:36:57):
I went back a couple of times.

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he had to have had an empty clip on him because he didn't empty the clip.

(00:37:06):
There's some holes in this movie, buddy.

(00:37:08):
There's a few.

(00:37:10):
A huge thing that I learned is that they were still writing the script as they were filming.

(00:37:16):
So they were filming, then Alan Rickman does this

(00:37:20):
American accent and they're like oh good we can add this in like there's also a

(00:37:24):
very big plot hole that I didn't notice until I read this but you know in the

(00:37:30):
beginning when they show the truck coming in the garage and then

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So in the end, we know there's an ambulance in there.

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But if you look in the beginning when all the guys are coming out,

(00:37:43):
there's clearly no ambulance in the back.

(00:37:46):
So they had to like go through and like trim some stuff.

(00:37:50):
And apparently there is supposed to be a part where all the criminals like

(00:37:54):
synchronize their watches.

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And when McLean is talking to Hans Gruber,

(00:38:01):
there's a part where he notices like his watch and that was a giveaway to him that

(00:38:06):
he was one of them.

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But we never see that in the beginning.

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Hmm.

(00:38:12):
Yeah.

(00:38:12):
That's interesting.

(00:38:13):
Yeah.

(00:38:16):
Fun fact on Devereaux White.

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That's his name, right?

(00:38:19):
Argyle?

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2020, he made a reappearance.

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In what?

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A Die Hard commercial.

(00:38:26):
For the battery.

(00:38:28):
He's doing great then.

(00:38:30):
The battery?

(00:38:31):
The battery, yes.

(00:38:32):
Die Hard batteries.

(00:38:33):
Die Hard batteries.

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Car batteries.

(00:38:35):
Yeah.

(00:38:35):
Yeah.

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He did it.

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He played his own Argyle role in the Die Hard battery.

(00:38:40):
commercial.

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Oh, that's funny.

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So we had spoken about how we could possibly get an obscure actor on this.

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Argyle could be one of those.

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Easily.

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Argyle,

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if you're listening or if you know Argyle,

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Deverell White,

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tell them to get in contact with us.

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Because

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Or if like I go out and I can't start my car, there's a good possibility that I think we could.

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And he he's he has his own business in California and he's part of a rehabilitation

(00:39:07):
center or something.

(00:39:08):
He's affiliated.

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So I'm pretty sure we can track him down.

(00:39:12):
Yeah.

(00:39:12):
Let's get on it.

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That's pretty cool.

(00:39:15):
I think that'd be pretty cool.

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I do have a fun.

(00:39:17):
He'd be a fun one to be on.

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Probably.

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You have a fun fact.

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Nakatomi Plaza.

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Is it real or fake?

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Well, it was Fox Plaza.

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Yes, it's real.

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Yeah, they filmed it in a real... They filmed it in the Fox Plaza.

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Yeah, they wanted the authenticity of a real building, and this Fox... What was it called?

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Fox Plaza?

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Fox?

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Yeah.

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It was under construction.

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Don't laugh.

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It was under construction, and they got the rights to film there.

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They were even given permission to use the floors of the building that were still

(00:39:55):
under construction.

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They were able to film this whole thing.

(00:39:57):
Yeah, that was their whole set, and they charged themselves red.

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they did and they really annoyed all the other people that were did you see that uh

(00:40:07):
they made so much noise because apparently they like really did blow up like cars

(00:40:11):
and shit and they annoyed the neighbors so much that they only got three hours to

(00:40:17):
film that helicopter sequence at the very end in any event they had this film that

(00:40:21):
whole fucking thing in three hours

(00:40:24):
and the story goodbye that's it that's all i have to say all right katie what is

(00:40:30):
your favorite scene

(00:40:32):
I really like at the end when John McClane is coming out of the building with Holly

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and it's like the end of the movie,

(00:40:39):
that romantic embrace.

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And then he sees Sergeant Al Powell.

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Yes.

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And then he realizes that that was his main crush the whole time.

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He was like, yeah, Carl Winslow did it.

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Did I do that?

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Yeah.

(00:41:01):
And this was actually I read that this was the first time they were actually like

(00:41:06):
filming together,

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too.

(00:41:07):
So it's kind of like, you know, the meeting for the first time.

(00:41:11):
Exciting in their own little way.

(00:41:13):
But I like the bromance.

(00:41:16):
You know what I loved about that?

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If you remember from earlier in the movie,

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I'm not going to call him Carl Winslow,

(00:41:23):
because what's his actual name in the movie?

(00:41:25):
Sergeant Al Powell.

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OK, so Sergeant Al Powell tells Bruce Willis a story.

(00:41:35):
McClane he tells him a story about how he became a desk a desk jocky because he

(00:41:40):
shot a kid who showed him what he thought was a real gun he shoots him and he

(00:41:46):
couldn't deal with that so he became a desk a desk cop then at the end of the movie

(00:41:52):
everything seems cool

(00:41:56):
John McClane comes out,

(00:41:57):
Al's there,

(00:41:59):
and this terrorist pops up,

(00:42:02):
and he's ready to light them the fuck up.

(00:42:05):
And what happens?

(00:42:06):
McClane grabs Holly, drives her to the ground, and all you see is a gun.

(00:42:11):
Boom!

(00:42:13):
Shoots him like three or four times, and it's Al.

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And he did do that.

(00:42:23):
Mm-hmm.

(00:42:25):
I love that part of it because earlier in the show,

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you just know that he he's not capable of doing that.

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And then.

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Well, the reason why he's in his current position is because he shot somebody.

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Well, he shot a kid with a toy gun.

(00:42:38):
Yeah.

(00:42:39):
But.

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What I love is that he says, I'm really not able to use my gun anymore.

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And then at the end of the movie,

(00:42:47):
it's that guy who ends up shooting him like boom,

(00:42:50):
boom,

(00:42:50):
boom,

(00:42:51):
boom.

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And saving everyone's ass because, you know.

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That's it.

(00:43:00):
Because it's Carl Winslow.

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Because it's Carl Winslow.

(00:43:04):
Eric, what about you?

(00:43:06):
So I really like the explosion scenes like.

(00:43:10):
Hmm.

(00:43:10):
The whole top of the building goes up.

(00:43:13):
When he drops the chair down the elevator shaft and then blows the whole thing.

(00:43:17):
Yeah, that's pretty good, too.

(00:43:18):
It's pretty badass when Bruce Willis breaks through the window.

(00:43:22):
With the fire hose?

(00:43:25):
Yes.

(00:43:26):
When he goes flying.

(00:43:28):
When they're shooting him at the top of the roof,

(00:43:30):
then he grabs the fire hose and he's like,

(00:43:33):
what are you doing?

(00:43:33):
And he just goes jumping off.

(00:43:36):
yeah yeah that part's great awesome how tell me how did he do this whole thing like

(00:43:40):
barefoot so he wasn't actually like as bruce willis he was not actually barefoot

(00:43:46):
they made these special like fake feet for him like molded from his own feet so if

(00:43:53):
you actually look in certain scenes like his feet look bigger because he had these

(00:43:58):
like special i did not know that fake feet

(00:44:03):
Speaking of the bare feet,

(00:44:06):
the part in the movie where Hans told him to shoot all the glass out because he

(00:44:11):
realized he had no shoes on.

(00:44:17):
That's the type of stuff in the movie that makes me like the movie.

(00:44:21):
Things like that.

(00:44:22):
That was a lot of blood.

(00:44:24):
Terrorist and serial killer stuff.

(00:44:26):
Watching him walk across the glass barefoot.

(00:44:30):
Yeah.

(00:44:32):
He could have took another path.

(00:44:33):
He could have took a broom and swept it out of the way.

(00:44:35):
Honestly?

(00:44:36):
Yeah.

(00:44:37):
Honestly, all you have to do is get down on the ground and, like, sweep it with your hand.

(00:44:41):
Brush it to the side.

(00:44:42):
Plenty of debris.

(00:44:43):
He could have moved it.

(00:44:44):
Seriously.

(00:44:46):
That's what I would have probably have done.

(00:44:48):
We're criticizing John McLean.

(00:44:50):
Yeah.

(00:44:51):
You know, he did OK.

(00:44:53):
He did OK.

(00:44:53):
He did OK.

(00:44:54):
Honestly, there's other things that criticize about the guy.

(00:44:57):
He wasn't like the perfect husband or anything.

(00:44:59):
I mean, no.

(00:45:01):
He let his wife and his kids move to California.

(00:45:05):
And he's all like, oh, I'm a New York cop.

(00:45:09):
You know what I think, though?

(00:45:10):
I think that works in favor of the whole Christmas movie thing.

(00:45:14):
Remember, we talked about in the last episode, like the redemption quality.

(00:45:17):
Yes.

(00:45:19):
ding ding ding erica what you got to say about that miss erica yeah let me ask what

(00:45:28):
you can say all right we haven't sold her but you know what to me that this is a

(00:45:35):
redempt over a movie about redemption because mcclain's clearly not a good person

(00:45:41):
in the beginning because

(00:45:44):
I don't think he's a bad person.

(00:45:45):
I don't think bad.

(00:45:46):
I think he's a bad husband and I think he's a bad father.

(00:45:48):
I didn't get redemption.

(00:45:50):
I got blown terrorist up.

(00:45:53):
I took it for what it was.

(00:45:55):
There's a point when he is after he walks through all that glass and he's like

(00:46:00):
cleaning himself up.

(00:46:01):
He's talking to Al on the walkie talkie and he's kind of like feeling like he's not

(00:46:07):
going to make it through this.

(00:46:08):
And he's like,

(00:46:09):
tell Holly that I'm sorry and that like I should have realized like how important

(00:46:13):
like her career was and everything.

(00:46:15):
I felt at that moment there was a huge redemption aspect.

(00:46:20):
Holly moves to California.

(00:46:22):
She's clearly making like $250 a year, right?

(00:46:27):
She's making serious money because she's basically second in line to the head of this company.

(00:46:34):
John McClain is a New York City cop.

(00:46:39):
And he refuses to move to California to be with his wife, who is like half a millionaire.

(00:46:48):
That would be a quarter of a million.

(00:46:53):
Which is an average salary in California.

(00:46:57):
No, dude.

(00:46:59):
Holly McClain's not making anything average.

(00:47:01):
She is basically running this company.

(00:47:04):
What's that got to do with Redemption?

(00:47:05):
Redemption.

(00:47:07):
Because the point is that John McClane should have dropped,

(00:47:11):
like,

(00:47:13):
dude,

(00:47:13):
for him not to follow her makes no sense other than just stubbornness.

(00:47:18):
Because she's making so much money.

(00:47:22):
She and her kids are all in California.

(00:47:24):
It made no sense for him not to be in California.

(00:47:27):
They wouldn't have a movie if he did that.

(00:47:31):
I mean, he should still be invited to the Christmas party, right?

(00:47:34):
Right.

(00:47:35):
He was.

(00:47:35):
He showed up.

(00:47:36):
No, I'm saying even if he was in L.A., regardless, he should be there.

(00:47:39):
But let me tell you something.

(00:47:40):
He showed up and her last name was different.

(00:47:44):
But did you notice at the end when she's introducing herself to Al,

(00:47:50):
she does call herself Holly McLean?

(00:47:54):
No, I didn't.

(00:47:55):
Well, she does.

(00:47:55):
She does.

(00:47:57):
Must have been before they were.

(00:47:58):
I don't think he's actually seen this movie.

(00:48:04):
Well,

(00:48:05):
must have been before she was getting on with him in the back of the limo with our

(00:48:08):
guy off the front.

(00:48:09):
This didn't happen.

(00:48:13):
Have you not seen The Heart 2?

(00:48:14):
All right.

(00:48:16):
That's the first scene.

(00:48:18):
favorite bruce willis movie ever can i go first you go yes okay go sixth sense oh

(00:48:24):
that was mine oh sorry that was mine i love the sixth sense all right i'll go next

(00:48:32):
then because um die hard

(00:48:41):
All right, go ahead.

(00:48:45):
Now, it's different.

(00:48:46):
Sixth Sense, I think, is fantastic.

(00:48:49):
The one I'm thinking of is more like Fifth Element.

(00:48:52):
I thought Fifth Element was just an amazing movie.

(00:48:55):
Also filmed in Philadelphia, by the way.

(00:49:00):
What about you?

(00:49:01):
I really love Armageddon.

(00:49:04):
Anybody?

(00:49:04):
No?

(00:49:05):
You're looking at me like... It was good.

(00:49:07):
Yeah, it was good.

(00:49:07):
I love that.

(00:49:09):
A little cliche, but good.

(00:49:11):
Stop.

(00:49:12):
What?

(00:49:12):
If I was trying to pick my 11th best Bruce Willis movie, that would go Armageddon.

(00:49:17):
I mean, it would be on the top of my list at that point.

(00:49:23):
I'm Sixth Sense.

(00:49:25):
I still like Sixth Sense.

(00:49:26):
Wait a minute.

(00:49:27):
You both picked Sixth Sense?

(00:49:29):
Yeah, we could have the same favorite movie.

(00:49:30):
I didn't think you picked the same one.

(00:49:32):
Why?

(00:49:33):
Oh, I didn't.

(00:49:34):
You didn't tell me.

(00:49:34):
Did you even see it?

(00:49:36):
Yes.

(00:49:36):
Oh, how would I not see that one?

(00:49:41):
Do you know that Bruce Willis is.

(00:49:45):
In the whole movie.

(00:49:46):
Yeah, he's dead in the whole movie.

(00:49:49):
Thanks for spoiling that for me.

(00:49:53):
By the way,

(00:49:53):
Bruce Willis,

(00:49:54):
I was looking up his filmography and I was like,

(00:49:58):
man,

(00:49:58):
he's been in a lot of great movies.

(00:50:00):
No, I'm wrong.

(00:50:01):
What?

(00:50:05):
no he's been in a couple of decent movies and then m night Shyamalan like rehab

(00:50:13):
like he the sixth sense he just you know re-emerges and then he just gets carried

(00:50:19):
by by like m night because like he ends up being the main guy for

(00:50:27):
the Shyamalan movies,

(00:50:29):
but outside of Die Hard and,

(00:50:31):
you know,

(00:50:33):
then you get into like Sixth Sense and Glass and all these like M.

(00:50:36):
Night movies.

(00:50:37):
It's like, I don't know.

(00:50:40):
I'm just saying like, there's not a huge,

(00:50:44):
plethora of bruce will is like damn dude he did a lot of great movies he honestly

(00:50:49):
did like die hard die hard two die hard three die hard nine gotta capitalize on

(00:50:57):
that and then he did like the sixth sense it's like all right fiction i love pulp

(00:51:04):
Oh, yeah.

(00:51:05):
Pulp Fiction.

(00:51:07):
Fantastic movie.

(00:51:08):
Yeah.

(00:51:08):
I only just watched that recently for the first time.

(00:51:10):
Oh, really?

(00:51:12):
It wasn't really.

(00:51:13):
The Gimp?

(00:51:14):
You didn't like The Gimp?

(00:51:15):
I love Pulp Fiction.

(00:51:16):
Pulp Fiction is a great movie.

(00:51:18):
And honestly, that's a movie where I think he's fantastic.

(00:51:21):
It's a little all over the place for me.

(00:51:25):
The Gimp?

(00:51:26):
No.

(00:51:26):
The movie?

(00:51:28):
Because The Gimp is also all over the place.

(00:51:30):
The movie.

(00:51:32):
Are we ready to spin this wheel?

(00:51:34):
We went from our Hollywood movies to we went to Die Hard,

(00:51:37):
and now we are going to do our audience pick.

(00:51:41):
You gave us a list of movies.

(00:51:43):
We put them on a wheel,

(00:51:44):
and we are going to spin the wheel and decide which movie to review next.

(00:51:47):
Spin the win.

(00:51:48):
Now, Mr. Ryan with the wheel, are you going to spin it, sir?

(00:51:52):
All right, here we go.

(00:51:53):
It is time to spin the movie, Club Wheel of Destiny, audience pick.

(00:51:59):
All right, here we go.

(00:52:00):
Spin it, spin it, spin it.

(00:52:02):
And it is...

(00:52:07):
hangover we got the hangover is where john does not look happy no it's great i like

(00:52:20):
this movie um but no buts it'll be fun i wonder who who who gave us that movie i i

(00:52:30):
don't know and don't say whoever you think it is