The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe / Clontarf Classic Blend

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In 2005, director Andrew Adamson
and starred Georgie Henley gave

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the world an earnest
interpretation of one of the

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world's most beloved children's
books.

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In 2024 we go cheap and we go
Irish.

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The film is The Chronicles of
Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and

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the Wardrobe.
The Whiskey is Clontarf Classic

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Blend, or as I like to call it,
the Clonicles of Tarfia.

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Hey, we will be reviewing both
of those chronicles, Bob.

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This is the the.
Filming Whiskey Podcast

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Welcome to the Film and Whiskey
Podcast, where each week we

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review a classic movie and a
glass of whiskey.

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I'm Bob Buck.
I'm Brad G.

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And today we are looking at the
third highest grossing film of

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2005.
The Chronicles of Narnia, Colon,

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The Lion The Witch and the
Wardrobe.

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Now, Brad, I've already said
something that I feel like I

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need to correct.
I said this was the third

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highest grossing film of the
year.

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It was on a worldwide scale.
On a domestic scale it was the

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4th highest grossing film of the
year.

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And once again we find ourselves
in the middle of this season

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where we are reviewing high
grossing films with a fork in

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the road.
We have reviewed the top two

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grossing films of this year,
which were Star Wars Episode 3.

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And what was the other one?
Who cares?

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Cause Star Wars Episode 3.
What a movie, man.

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Oh, A Goblet of Fire, Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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Oh yeah, and so yeah, three and
four were either Steven

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Spielberg's War of the Worlds or
The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Which I I want to watch War of
the Worlds at some point.

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It is a fantastic movie until
like, the last five minutes, and

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even then it's still a really
good movie.

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I have a sneaking suspicion
we'll probably watch it someday.

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We we just like Spielberg.
So I'm I'm assuming that we're

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going to continue watching
Spielberg stuff the farther we

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get into this podcast, you know?
Speaking of Tom Cruise.

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We had first thing, we hadn't
spoken of Tom Cruise, but but go

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ahead.
Literally yesterday Baba, I was

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running an event for my for my
work and we had a participant

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from Singapore and she told me
that I looked like Tom Cruise.

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Wow.
And I said, I am that short.

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Thank you so much for the
compliment.

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I'm not going to, I'm not going
to crash that.

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Dream for you.
It made my day, man.

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Yeah, I bet it did.
I'm not going to say anything

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else.
You You know what, Brad?

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You do look like Tom Cruise.
That's right.

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I do.
All right.

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Let's get into talking about the
Chronicles of Narnia folks.

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If this is your first time
listening to our podcast, we

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want to say hello.
Welcome in This is the Film and

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Whiskey Podcast.
We watch movies.

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We drink whiskey this year.
We are looking at the highest

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grossing films of each year from
1988 to 2019.

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Brad, as I've been saying the
last few weeks, we are in the

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sort of calm before the storm
where even though we're starting

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to get into IP Ville here and
Disneyville, it still seems like

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these are real movies, You know
what I mean?

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Like, this seemed like a big
deal of a movie when it came

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out, at least for Disney.
Oh, Chronicles was huge when it

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came out.
I I remember it like, really

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doing it.
It really made big waves,

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partially like in the Christian
world, 'cause it's a it's an A

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Christian IP that was taken
seriously, but also in the

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general populace, it seemed like
people really liked this movie.

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Yeah, especially people of a
certain age.

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This was, I think it did have
the the spectre of Disney

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hanging over it.
And it was.

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I think when people looked at it
less generously, it was always

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looked at as kind of this is
Disney's knock off of Lord of

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the Rings and it is both not as
good as Lord of the Rings and

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also has to be PG.
And so it can't be as good as

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Lord of the Rings.
And I think that was always kind

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of hindering it a little bit.
But at the end of the day, this

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is an adaptation of a children's
book and you can argue that Lord

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of the Rings is.
I wouldn't say that about Lord

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of the Rings, but.
No, This is The Hobbit is a

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adaptation of The Children.
Exactly.

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And I will say I think this is
better than the adaptations of

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The Hobbit in a number of ways.
You're deck on, right?

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It is, Bob.
You don't.

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You don't have Benedict's
Cumberbatch saying I am death at

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the end of the film, which is
the only.

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That's the best part of the
whole trilogy.

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Not just the best, the only good
part of those trilogies.

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All right.
So as we can start looking at

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Narnia, Brad, what is your
association with this IP like?

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Did you grow up reading the
books?

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Did you grow up watching the
movies?

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Where where are we on Narnia?
As a as a podcast?

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Yeah, I I love Narnia.
I grew up reading the books.

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I remember I, you know how you
have like early memories where

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you're like, I don't remember
anything else that was

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happening.
But I have a vague memory of

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being like 7 and watching the
old, I believe, BBC like

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television movies.
Do you know what I'm talking

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about?
So I I do recall watching

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Eustace turn into a dragon and
back on the BBCTV show that's

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that's emblazoned upon my
memory.

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So I yeah, I have been very
closely affiliated with Lewis's

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works here for for a long, long
time and I remember when this

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came out, being very excited.
Yeah, and I'm in the opposite

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camp.
I mean, I didn't.

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I didn't grow up Christian and I
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So like, that kind of took me
out of the running for being a

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Narnia fan.
And so, you know, after I became

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a Christian later in life and
went to college and studied

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theology, CS Lewis's books, non
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recommended to me.
And I I love Lewis, and Mere

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Christianity is one of my
favorite books of all time.

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Dude, the Great Divorce.
Oh, dude, I love The Great

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Divorce so much.
It's so good.

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That's my let's make it a
double.

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Read The Great Divorce and then
watch this movie.

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Yes, yes.
But I will say like it, it came

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with that sort of, like,
evangelical snootiness that

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people would be like, you never
read Narnia.

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You never watch Narnia.
No, I didn't.

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Super funny because, like, Lewis
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And also, but Lewis has a great
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snobbery, and I think that goes
over a lot of Christians heads

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anyway.
So at some point I was just

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like, I'm not going to read
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It was more of like a stamp my
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Like I don't need Narnia.
I'm going to read Harry Potter.

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I don't need Narnia.
I was already past the target

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age and I was reading Lewis's
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and people were like, well, you
don't know about Aslan.

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I'm like, you.
Who the hell cares?

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You know what I mean?
Like, mind your business.

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So my association with Narnia
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And I think, honestly, this
movie was probably my first

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exposure to the world of Narnia
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And so it's a really interesting
place to start, because being

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familiar with the books now, it
is both a pretty faithful

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adaptation of the book and also
kind of a lackluster adaptation

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of the book in a lot of ways.
And I'm excited to dive into

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talking to you about it, Brad,
because Lord of the Rings this

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is not.
But I do think that it is a

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pretty good movie on its own
merits and not just a pretty

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good Lord of the Rings knockoff.
Yeah, 100%.

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I as I was watching this film,
you feel the Lord of the Rings

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influence, like pushing this
movie forward.

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And yet this movie remains too
silly to ever like.

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Dive into the depths that Lord
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sure and and the beautiful thing
is it should be silly.

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Like you're following a group of
four children who become Knights

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in a matter of a day and they're
they're all of a sudden they're

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kingly because Aslan says that
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Like there's so much more going
on here than just what you see

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on the screen and that makes it
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And I I I think when you look at
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it does a a relatively good job.
Yeah, I'm kind of in that place

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too.
And and it is OK to watch a

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movie that is pretty good.
And honestly, Brad, it's kind of

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freeing for this podcast because
when we watch movies that have

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reputations of being greats,
then it's like, Oh my gosh, we

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have we have the weight of
critical consensus on our side

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here or we're working against us
and now it's like we're just

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watching a movie that's pretty
good.

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It's got a 6.9 on IMDb and we
can talk about.

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Like a little low, a little low.
But like, not terribly low.

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I was surprised to see it under
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I I would have thought it was
like a 7273.

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All right, man, Let's get into
our first segment of the day,

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which we call.
Brad explains.

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Brad's going to give us the
movie plots with only 60 seconds

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ticking on the clock, so let's
go ahead and hear your take with

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this little segment that we
call.

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Brad explains.
Brad Explains is the part of the

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podcast where Brad breaks down
the plot of the movie that he

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has just seen, often for the
first time.

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I have not asked you this yet,
Brad.

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How many times have you seen
this movie?

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This is probably in, you know,
one of my highest watched films

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about 3-4 times.
This is time #2 for me.

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I saw this in the theater in
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I have not seen it since.
So it's kind of cool to revisit

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because I remember like vague
things about it.

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I remember certain images or I
thought I did and and it was

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really nice to revisit it after
almost 2 decades and get a

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better picture of what the movie
actually is versus what I've

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made it out to be, which is just
a knock off Lord of the Rings.

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Honestly, that's kind of how I
felt last week with passion,

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where I'm like, yeah, I like
vaguely remember watching that.

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Like I think twice.
Like, right when it came out.

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And then I hadn't seen it in 20
years and was like, yeah, I kind

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of remember some, you know,
weird old baby stuff.

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But I I don't know.
I cried a lot.

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Can I tell you a a quick story
about the Passion of Christ?

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So in my town growing up, there
was the like the Multiplex movie

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theater and then there was a
theater across town that only

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had one screen.
It was like a big old movie

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theater and they would get
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And I had seen The Passion with
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came out at the Multiplex and
then like three months later it

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was playing at the other
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And one of my friends had said
like, I really want to see The

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Passion, but I I haven't had a
chance.

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And so we we went to see The
Passion of the Christ together

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in this big empty movie theater
where, like, the only other

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person in the movie theater sat
in the row right behind us.

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And we're like 14 years old.
And of course, like we're

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teenagers, so we're hungry all
the time.

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So we get a big bucket of
popcorn to watch The Crucifixion

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of Christ.
And like mid Crucifixion, the

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bucket of popcorn falls off my
lap and lands on like all the

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way upside down on the floor.
And when we try to pick it up,

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all the popcorn spills out.
And so now we're giggling, and

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we're trying to kick the
popcorn, like, under the chairs

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in front of us to tide the
evidence.

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It was perhaps the most
sacrilegious thing I've ever

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done, Brad.
It was that it was an accident.

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But my memory of the passion is
like, this is what you're doing

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while the crucifixion is
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Dude, I can just see it now.
I am making all things new,

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mother.
Popcorn.

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Everywhere, everywhere.
All right.

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On that note, Brad, you have 60
seconds to break down the plot

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of this movie, The Chronicles of
Narnia, and go.

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During World War Two.
Oh wait, Bob.

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You you you didn't get to pass
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The Chronicles of Narnia, The
Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

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is a film about the four Pevency
children who are shipped off in

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the middle of World War 2 to the
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They live in a house owned by an
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In the midst of exploring the
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in a magical wardrobe where
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land an entire country called
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Once they're in Narnia, Lucy
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tries to convince her brothers
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Edmund goes at some point as
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who tells him to bring his
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Eventually they all make it in.
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The other three siblings go on
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will help them save Edmund.
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Edmund, but Aslan has to
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betrayal, upon which Aslan has a
deeper magic is resurrected.

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Definitely not like last week's
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And he saves the day killing the
white witch.

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And dude, when Aslan says it is
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Oh, come on man, get out Bob.
You can go kick, Ross.

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It's fine.
It's fine.

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There's there's really good
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That one didn't quite land for
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Oh man.
Here's The thing is, like in the

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book there there's certain
things that I think are not

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unadaptable but certainly lost
in translation when you when you

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adapt from one medium to the
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And one of the famous lines from
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the movie here as well, where
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tame lion, but he's a good one.
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the context of the theology of
the book and this is a very

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obvious naked metaphor for the
death and resurrection of

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Christ.
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when you read that in the book,
it's like, oh, that hits really

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hard in the context of the
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It's just dialogue between
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And it it just kind of doesn't
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It's just two lines that are
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you almost don't really hear it.
It doesn't land with the same

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impact.
And in the book, yes, as land

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doing those things and saying it
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yeah, 'cause I 'cause it's right
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seeing, I'm seeing the words.
It just doesn't quite work as

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well for me in the context of
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And sure, you know, it's not
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It's just that you're kind of
like at the Leonardo DiCaprio

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pointing at the screen meme.
You're like, I see it.

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I see what you did there, Jesus.
Yeah, IIA 100% agree with you on

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the Aslan's not a safe lion, but
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Just didn't feel.
It just felt like, weird.

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Partially because they never set
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Like, I don't know.
Yeah, it feels like that line

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would have been better if it
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And I think in the book it's
when Beaver is describing as and

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that that would make a lot more
sense than like as he's leaving

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the scene, like, Oh yeah, he's
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It's like, well, we already knew
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And also that he's not tame and
we just saw him eat a woman's

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face like 3 minutes ago.
What are you what are you

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talking about?
Yeah, Tilda.

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Poor Tilda Swinton, man.
Yeah, you know what Fun fact

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this is Apocryphal to the books.
But after Aslan ate her face, he

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wandered off and became the main
lion in the Siegfried and Roy

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show.
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Wow, that's really cool.
I didn't know that.

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Just eating faces left and
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So Brad, oh, you mentioned
something about how they don't

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really set up things in the
movie.

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And that's one of my main points
that I'd like to hear from you

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about.
I say all the time like we don't

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need all this back story, like
just get us into the movie.

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And I'm kind of like eating my
words a little bit with this

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movie because.
This whole season, man, I I feel

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like there's been a few movies
where you're like, I want 10

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more minutes of qui gon, Give me
a back.

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Story baby.
I know.

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And and this movie in
particular, it's like, I think

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it's 1/2 hour too long.
But I think that it also it

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needs to lose that half hour and
then give like 4 minutes back

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into just giving me some sort of
context for like where are these

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children living?
Who is this guy?

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What what's the relationship?
Is he an uncle?

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Like, I don't.
Did I miss a line of dialogue?

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And then all of a sudden, like,
they find this wardrobe, they're

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in Narnia, they come back and
they talk to the professor and

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he's like, yeah, I don't know,
like maybe that does.

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That does happen and it's like,
wait, what?

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Like, are you aware of the
what's going on here?

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Not just any professor,
Professor Horace Slughorn from

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Hogwarts.
Of course, Jim Broadbent.

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My point being I don't feel like
they really established and

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again, like he is not Narnia, so
they want to get to the Narnia

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parts.
I get that.

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But like, who is this man?
From whence did this wardrobe

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come?
How does he know about his

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magical powers?
Like just a little bit of world

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building would have been really
helpful there.

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I I can't disagree with you
more.

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I like, I think that the opening
like 30 minutes of this movie

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are literally perfect.
Like the the opening bombing

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scene is great.
It establishes the characters

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and what they want and who they
are And the the rift that is

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growing between the children and
like them getting sent off to

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the country to somebody that
they don't really know works

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perfectly because the film is is
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children.
And so the children are being

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sent off to this weird eccentric
uncle person that their mother

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knows that they don't know
anything about.

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And you discover things about
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And I I just, I think that that
part of it was perfect.

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You don't need the explanation.
You just need to see it from the

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kids point of view so that you
get that feeling of like

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uncertainty.
And I I don't know what's going

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on and I'm away from home and I
I don't know who this person is

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and this this housekeeper is
kind of a bee and we're we're

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running away from her.
And I I just, I think that if

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there's anything of this movie
that needed needed to be

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explained more It's a lot of the
stuff in Narnia that like when

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you started talking I thought
you were going to say like, yeah

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there's so much stuff happening
in Narnia that I wish I had more

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context for.
And I would have said yes, I I'm

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with you 100%.
But the opening part of the

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movie, man, I'm, I'm all in on
that.

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That for me was like a nine out
of ten.

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I thought they were hitting on
all cylinders.

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Cool.
OK, so moving on, I just and

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again like it's it's a nitpick
for me, but it's also the part

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of the movie that matters the
least.

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So it's like I, you know, I'm
not going to argue with with you

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on that.
OK, let's dive into the

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performances here a little bit.
And this is an interesting movie

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to talk about performances,
because usually the child actors

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are the performances that we try
to talk about, either the least

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or the last, because it's like
you don't want to criticize kid

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performances.
But this movie.

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Boy, are we getting ready to.
This movie is centered on four

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different child actor
performances.

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Have you ever seen a movie with
like 4?

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Lead child actors.
No, I mean like, like Charlie

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and the Chocolate Factory or
like, you know, the old Willy

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Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
But Yep, that's anchored by

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Grandpa Joe and and Gene Wilder.
Like, yeah, the stars of this

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movie are four children.
The youngest of which is like

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the most on screen.
Yes, and they're all pretty good

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for children.
Like you do have to grade them

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on the scale of children actors,
but on the scale of children

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actors, they're all like an 8
out of 10 I would say.

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Yeah, I was.
That was the main thing I wanted

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to take note of.
I think that if I had to rank

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them in terms of like who I
think is is best, I would

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probably go.
Lucy, Edmond and Susan are kind

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of both interchangeable in the
middle for me.

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And I think that the oldest boy,
Peter, I I don't have the

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actor's name pulled up.
William Mosley.

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William Mosley I I think he's
the least.

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There's moments where I'm like,
oh he's a solid 8 1/2 out of 10

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B actor.
But there's also a few where I'm

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like, you don't really have any
emotion going on in your face.

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What's What's going on, dude?
Yeah.

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And there's also a few moments
where they ask the kids to have

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an outpouring of emotion and you
can kind of see them straining

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for I need my body needs to
produce tears right now.

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So it like and and that those
kind of moments really do take a

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viewer out of the actual movie.
At least they did for me.

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And you know, like when Aslan
dies, spoiler alert, when when

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Aslan dies and we get them kind
of weeping on his body.

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It's effective, but it could
have been more effective.

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And I think that's kind of my my
whole, if I could sum up my

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entire take on this movie, it's
like it is effective.

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I am going to give this movie a
good score.

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But I was left wondering through
most of the film, like how much

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more effective could this have
been if only X?

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Like there was always something
in almost every scene, whether

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it was man, if this was just a
little bit, if the set didn't

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look so fake here, or if the CGI
was a little better, or if this

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didn't have like AC minus
director like something could

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have something could have made
this movie better.

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Bob Salmon.
Oh, I'm horror.

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Do we, Andrew?
I was going to say, do we have a

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big Andrew Adamson fan in the
house today?

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It's.
Just a huge Adamson stand over

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here.
Do we know any other movies he's

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directed?
Well, let's see.

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He directed.
No, he did Prince Caspian after

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this.
Oh, he directed Shrek Two and

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Shrek One.
He directed Shrek.

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One dude.
There you go.

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See, this is world famous Andrew
Adamson.

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My guy.
He's so forgettable that I

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literally wrote his name into my
intro like 3 weeks ago for Shrek

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that I didn't even.
November it Nope.

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All right, so let.
I mean seriously though, my take

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being this is pretty good, it
could be a lot better.

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Is that a fair take on the movie
overall?

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I think it is.
And I I think that the reason it

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it falls away from being great
is because they don't.

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There's so much to put into this
movie and and it's wild because

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the actual book of you know, The
Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

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isn't a long book.
Like you're not you're not

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dealing with The Fellowship of
the Ring.

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And yet, I felt like they kind
of rushed through so much of the

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Narnia stuff that I I was always
left wanting to know more about

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Narnia.
I think that everything through

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Edmund's visit to Narnia,
everything after that just feels

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rushed and like, OK, I guess
there's Santa now.

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And I I guess freaking Santa.
Discount Dumbledore wanders into

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this movie.
It's like, ho ho ho kids, here's

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a sword.
Go fight a witch.

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Oh, that was one of the things
that pissed Tolkien off about

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Lewis's books.
He was like, listen man, you

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can't write fantasy and just put
put Christmas like Santa Claus

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in your fantasy novel.
That's not OK.

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Tell me about Christmas and
Narnia.

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Are they aware of the birth of
Jesus Christ?

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Like what is going on?
Dang.

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I better won't believe that they
are.

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Oh man, I it's stuff like that
that as an adult, I'm like, I'm

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kind of with Tolkien on this,
but when you're a kid reading

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like Chronicles of Narnia, it's
this moment of like they

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celebrate Christmas too.
And like, you know, it feels

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like a cheap way of garnering
audience, you know, approval.

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But when your audience is like 4
to 9 year olds, who cares?

445
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,880
Man, everybody likes Christmas.
So last week we reviewed, I

446
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,080
guess two weeks ago we reviewed
Pirates of the Caribbean, and

447
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,640
you talked about how incredibly
violent that movie was.

448
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,960
And I got to be honest man, I
remember seeing this movie in

449
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,680
the theater and being kind of
like this is trying really hard

450
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,000
to do the Battle of Pellinore
Fields from the third Lord of

451
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,400
the Rings.
And this is a poor imitation of

452
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,760
that.
And I will eat my words from 15

453
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,920
year old Bob today, because the
especially the first half of the

454
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,760
battle, there is some really
inventive camera work when

455
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,520
you're following the the eagle
bird, whatever they are as

456
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,200
they're dropping the rocks on
people.

457
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,200
The the Griffin, Bob.
Sure.

458
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,760
Whatever they the rocks hit
those guys with such impact and

459
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,720
it's like, Oh yeah, this is so
first point is Andrew Adamson, I

460
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,360
will give you credit you you
designed a really, really good

461
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:51,160
half of a battle before they cut
away to Aslan, 'cause I think

462
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,800
the second-half of the battle is
kind of poopy.

463
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:58,520
But yeah, but secondly, what a
violent film this is to to

464
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,400
secure APG rating.
Many people getting slashed to

465
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,240
death, getting faces eaten,
getting crushed by rocks.

466
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,760
No blood though.
No blood so.

467
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,720
It's totally OK, yeah.
Do you think that there was

468
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:19,200
blood when Aslan ate her face?
Oh no, she's a she's a witch.

469
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,800
She just kind of poofed into
smoke.

470
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,640
Yeah, and they cut back to Aslan
and there's there's no, there's.

471
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,880
No blood?
No.

472
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,760
Can you Can you imagine if there
was just?

473
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,520
Just like her.
Her face.

474
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,880
The entire just flap of her face
just hanging from a tooth.

475
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,440
It's like in Return of the Jedi.
Like he's like throwing her arm

476
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,280
up in the air and like gobbling
it down.

477
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:47,840
Like he's the rancor burps some
some of her dreadlocks out.

478
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,880
Oh man, that would be
incredible.

479
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,960
Bob, I'm with you 100% on this
battle.

480
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,200
I think especially the first
half is killer.

481
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,960
I like the second-half.
I think the fight between Peter

482
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,960
and the White Witch is pretty
well done.

483
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:10,160
Not great for me.
There's something about seeing

484
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,880
like a traditional knight that I
realized I was like, I don't

485
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:21,280
know if I've ever seen in a
movie a truly traditional knight

486
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,360
who's like the main character
fighting with, like old school,

487
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,760
like chainmail and plate armor
and a shield and a sword.

488
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,560
And there was something about
that that I just it really, I

489
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,120
really enjoyed that at the end
of the fight scene, but do the

490
00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:41,160
opening part of the fight scene.
I also don't know if I've ever

491
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,240
seen such a cool geography laid
out like they're fighting in

492
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:50,480
this like hilly, like almost
like a Scottish Highland crags

493
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,560
and you see the armies like
pouring through it like water.

494
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,800
And I'm like, yeah, most fight
scenes that you ever see.

495
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,040
You know, Battle of Pelenor
Fields, you know, all these

496
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,760
famous things, they're either
set around like a fortification,

497
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:09,080
like Helms Deep, or they're just
in a giant open, empty space.

498
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,280
And I like I thought the choice
of geography was incredible for

499
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,280
the final battle.
I agree.

500
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,600
And one of the things that has
really bothered me about this

501
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,360
movie, upon this rewatch, it had
a $180 million budget.

502
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:25,960
It was a huge budget for a movie
like this, and it's really clear

503
00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,960
that they put a lot of that
money into the CGI and they put

504
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,800
a lot of the money into the
special effects in the battle

505
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,400
scene.
And I think that especially in

506
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,880
the first part of that battle
scene, you get these huge

507
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,080
sprawling kind of vistas.
There's a lot of aerial shots

508
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,120
where the camera is literally
moving overhead.

509
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,720
It's really well done and and
you can see how much effort they

510
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,000
put into the coverage and the
filming of that sequence.

511
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,160
What really bothers me though is
like, there are times in this

512
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,560
movie where they'll just the the
kids will just be like I I was

513
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,160
right after they came out of the
waterfall and you could tell

514
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,360
that everything was green
screened and it was like, wow,

515
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,560
this must have been reshoots or
something Because like there's

516
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,640
some really bad green screening
going on.

517
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,240
And there are other times where
it just seems like, oh, this is

518
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,200
like this isn't even outside.
This is on a set in a sound

519
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,640
stage somewhere that you just
covered in fake snow.

520
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,920
And there are moments where the
sets just look really chintzy in

521
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,960
this movie.
And it it kind of pulls me out

522
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,920
of the movie.
And I don't know if it's just

523
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,640
the way they lit them, the way
they filmed them, the lensing

524
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,280
like, I just, I don't know
enough about the the movie

525
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,960
making magic that did not go
into parts of this movie.

526
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,880
But like, you know, I have to
imagine Lord of the Rings was

527
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,560
the same.
Everything there was, was built

528
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,040
on sound stages.
And yet those the way that they

529
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,360
shoot those scenes, I think
about like Rivendell and it's

530
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,880
like Oh my gosh, like this is
there's so much detail here and

531
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,880
ministerith and the kind of
grind that lives on the

532
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,920
Whitestone of ministerith.
It's like everything feels lived

533
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,720
in, everything feels real, but
it still feels massive and

534
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,400
regal.
And Narnia kind of feels like it

535
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,200
exists in like a three square
mile radius and they're like,

536
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,440
yeah, we got to get over that
hill there and that's like the

537
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,000
end of Narnia.
And so, like, you never feel

538
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,440
like you're in this great, big
world.

539
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,600
And I think it's because of the
limitations of the filmmaking.

540
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,200
And that's what really sucked is
I wanted to.

541
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,960
I wanted this to be a world I
was curious about, but it felt

542
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,640
like it was like a small village
that I was getting curious

543
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,560
about.
I I think for me the reason that

544
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,640
that all kind of comes about is
with Lord of the Rings.

545
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,680
You have this deep sense of
adult adventure, like End of the

546
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,560
world type of stuff.
I think with Chronicles of

547
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,840
Narnia, because the main
characters are four children,

548
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:53,040
like as the viewer you just feel
like the stakes are lower.

549
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,560
Like I don't know how else to
describe it other than to say

550
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,480
everything in the world feels a
little more like a fairy tale

551
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,680
than a fantasy, you you know
what I mean?

552
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,400
Like Lord of the Rings is a
fantasy adventure.

553
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,360
Even though Tolkien like meant
it as a fairy tale and Lewis's

554
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,440
feels like a fairy tale, like it
feels like a place that

555
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,040
Tinkerbell would live in.
Yes, so much more so than like,

556
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,680
the grounded, gritty, real world
built in Lord of the.

557
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,120
Rings Well, and I think part of
that is like Lord of the Rings

558
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,960
has a very focused narrative of
like this and then this, but

559
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,120
this, so this and like
everything that we've ever

560
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,040
talked about with how to
construct a compelling

561
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,400
narrative.
Whereas I think fairy tale is

562
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,600
the perfect phrase for this Brad
because like other fairy tales,

563
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,680
even like Grimm brothers fairy
tales, it's not so much about

564
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,320
what happens in the fairy tale
as it is about the moral that

565
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,000
they're trying to teach and the
moral here is the gospel.

566
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,800
So the the actual motivations
for the characters sometimes

567
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,600
feel a little muddy or non
existent and they're told that

568
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,880
there's a prophecy and that
they're going to be kings and

569
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,520
Queens.
So let's go do this stuff.

570
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,640
And they're then their brother
gets kidnapped and they're like,

571
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,160
OK, well now we have to rescue
our brother.

572
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,000
But it still feels like there
are thinner character

573
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,600
motivations here than there are
throughout the Lord of the

574
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,440
Rings.
And it's because this is a fairy

575
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,720
tale and Lord of the Rings is
not.

576
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,360
I think you really hit the nail
on the head here.

577
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,120
Yeah, and that's that is a key
thing that I feel like is

578
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:28,320
underdeveloped is the well, this
is, this is a prophecy.

579
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,080
And so you know that this is
what's happening, dude.

580
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:36,200
All you have to do is have, like
have a recall.

581
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,200
So like you, they're in Beaver's
Hut talking to Mr. and Mrs.

582
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,600
Beaver and they're explaining
the prophecy.

583
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,040
And have you dude, have you seen
the clip of the Great British

584
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:53,200
Baking Show where the the woman
brings up a cake that is a

585
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,760
cartoon Beaver and the and the
lady goes, let's talk about your

586
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:03,160
Beaver.
Listen, I like I watched this

587
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,440
whole movie without chuckling.
But what are you saying?

588
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,200
They're in Beaver's Hut.
He's like, what a euphemism.

589
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,440
I'm sorry.
Please finish your point while I

590
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,160
continue being juvenile.
I'm trying to set the stage

591
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,040
here, Bob.
All you have to do is have Mr.

592
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,240
Beaver tell the four children
like the prophecy.

593
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,000
Like, like line by line, like a
poem.

594
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,320
Read the prophecy.
It's like, you know, 6 lines

595
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,880
long.
Doesn't take that long and have

596
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,760
the music that Mister Tumnus
plays on his little little flute

597
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,680
to put Lucy to sleep.
Have that playing like really

598
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,360
softly in the background and
boom, you have an epic scene

599
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,120
with an epic prophecy and now
all of the children, right?

600
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,960
Because the movie is filmed from
the children's perspective now,

601
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,640
we, the audience and the
children have received the

602
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,160
prophecy and it's been placed
upon us and we feel the

603
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,680
mysticism and there's cool music
playing in the background and

604
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,080
and I'm like, oh, that's that's
all you had to do.

605
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,199
And now you have the prophecy
and you have your motivation.

606
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,480
But instead it's just there's a
prophecy.

607
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,920
Go go go.
Yeah, a prophecy that like you

608
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,120
didn't even buy into.
There's just a prophecy that

609
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,880
people are going to come and
then they are kings and you seem

610
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,360
like those people, so go ahead.
You're going to come and then

611
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,840
then the Kings.
Listen, dude.

612
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,800
So one of the reviews that I
read for this movie was from The

613
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,480
New Yorker, and I almost sent
you the passage.

614
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,920
It was one of the funniest movie
reviews I've ever read.

615
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,360
And the the critic was talking
about how the the story of

616
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,239
Narnia has for decades stirred
the souls of the faithful.

617
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,320
But then he says, it has also
stirred the loins of

618
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,120
professional Freudians.
Then he laid out like the Why

619
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,080
what the Freudian reading of
this movie is.

620
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,520
Uh, huh.
First Lucy, then Edmund, then

621
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,920
all four children feel their way
uncertainly through the folds of

622
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,920
a deep furry passage and into
another world.

623
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,600
And boy, oh boy, if that isn't
the place where we need to break

624
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,400
for whiskey, Brad.
Yeah, Lewis the pedophile.

625
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,160
That's that's definitely the
take we wanted to come away with

626
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:20,000
here.
Let's drink some Clontarf.

627
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,040
What do you say?
I'm ready, man.

628
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:30,440
Let's get to it.
All right, so today we are

629
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:35,760
checking out Clontarf 1014
Classic Blend Irish Whiskey.

630
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,840
Brad, this is a cheap, cheap
Irish W1 that I've heard is good

631
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:46,520
as a mixer and I picked it up on
the OHLQ Ohio Liquor Last Call

632
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,200
shelf because they stopped
carrying this size of it or this

633
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,920
bottle or something.
It cost me like $11.00 and I

634
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,600
said boy oh boy is that a film
and whiskey selection right

635
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,200
there.
Heck yeah, dude.

636
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,040
So this is made by Pernod
Ricard.

637
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,080
They have a subsidiary called
Irish Distillers and they are

638
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,320
the ones who create this brand.
It's not attached to any

639
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,760
particular distillery because it
is a blended Irish whiskey.

640
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,960
Apparently in Ireland there are
other things that are released

641
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,440
under the Clontarf brand, like a
single malt, but in the States

642
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,920
we only get this and so I am
very excited to dive into this

643
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,280
Brad.
It's been a while since we've

644
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,440
had a cheapo whiskey and it's
been a minute since we've had an

645
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,640
Irish whiskey, so like, we're
just crossing things off the

646
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,480
list here.
Well, and this is perfect to

647
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,520
pair with as the author of the
famed Cronkles of Narnia is

648
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,040
Irish.
And probably a fan of cheap

649
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,000
whiskey.
I don't know, man.

650
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,360
I I could see Lewis and Tolkien
putting down some really

651
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,640
expensive Scotch.
But also having debates with a

652
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,280
just a giant glass of Clontarf
in hand.

653
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,520
Oh yeah dude, 100% all.
Right, man, let's dive in.

654
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,880
I'm drinking this live.
You are drinking it in the past,

655
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,560
apparently.
I think you have notes to bring

656
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,160
here, so.
Yeah, hold on.

657
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,760
Let me get my time machine and
go back to when I was drinking

658
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,320
it.
Brad, what are you picking up on

659
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:09,160
the nose of Clontarf?
This is a a relatively pleasant

660
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,800
nose.
I think that it's got some it's

661
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:17,280
got some floral notes, it has
some like really nice light milk

662
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,400
chocolatey things going on.
There's some honeysuckle.

663
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:26,560
It it's overall a really
pleasant, light, unoffensive

664
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,640
nose.
If I had to give a negative

665
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:33,520
note, it feels young and that's
what you'd expect.

666
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,560
Here.
I think it's decent.

667
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,760
I'll give it a 6 1/2 Bob.
Brad, I really like this nose

668
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,480
for what it is.
It is very light, very airy.

669
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:43,600
If you look at the color of it
in the glass.

670
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,760
It is not a very dark whiskey,
but it has what I love on a lot

671
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,200
of these Irish whiskeys that
Scotches sometimes don't have,

672
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:55,400
which is a sort of almost like a
floral heathery kind of note to

673
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,400
it.
It's like really deep honey and

674
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,840
some floral as well.
And I really like that.

675
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,440
You can tell that it's gonna be
a little bit harsh on the

676
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,560
pallet, or it's at least hinting
that way, but it's covered up

677
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,880
really, really nicely by these
softer notes.

678
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,200
I'm digging this, man.
I'm gonna give it a 7 out of 10

679
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,120
on the nose.
Yeah.

680
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,960
I think as we get into the
pallet here it the flavor drops

681
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,560
off a little bit because it just
there's a youth that underlies

682
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,480
this that you can't get away
from.

683
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,920
But I will say it has some
really nice vanilla notes that

684
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,040
are strong for me.
There's some rose petals, some

685
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:37,000
toffee and the young grain taste
isn't bad, but it is present.

686
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,680
I I think I'll come down just a
little bit from the nose, but

687
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,320
I'll I'll stick it a six out of
10.

688
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,560
I don't know how to say what I'm
going to say in a moment without

689
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,080
it sounding like super harsh on
this whiskey.

690
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:52,320
But when you're tasting whiskey
for review purposes, you're not

691
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,200
just sipping it and immediately
swallowing it.

692
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,640
You're like swishing it around
your mouth.

693
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,240
You're kind of kicking it from
the back front of your mouth to

694
00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:01,120
the back of your mouth on the
front of the palate.

695
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,320
This is like syrupy sweet, and
it's actually pretty viscous

696
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:05,440
too.
I thought it was going to be

697
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,800
super thin, but it coats the
mouth really nicely.

698
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,640
But it's it's almost sickly
sweet.

699
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,680
And when I went to kick it to
the back of my mouth, it just

700
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:18,120
hit this one small part of my
tongue that I got like a really

701
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,880
weird, like, really weird note
on.

702
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,200
And it almost made me gag for a
second.

703
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,360
Not because it was like it
tasted so bad, but because I

704
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,680
think it tipped something off in
my brain that it was going to go

705
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,520
to bad places.
And so I was like, and then it

706
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,200
didn't like it, just it it
became a very sort of smoky,

707
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,720
almost ashy, sort of bitter
taste on the back of my tongue.

708
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,200
But what I'm left with is this
sense that they're trying to

709
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:48,240
cover up some of the harsher
edges with a really sickly sweet

710
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:50,120
flavor.
Now they obviously are not.

711
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:51,440
They're not adding anything to
this.

712
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,520
They're not doing that.
But you can tell that this is

713
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,960
not a a really high quality
whiskey and BA, very well aged

714
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,040
whiskey because those harsh
edges are still there and

715
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,280
they're it just kind of tastes
like they dumped sugar on top of

716
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,600
a pretty rough whiskey.
It's not unpleasant, but I think

717
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,680
my palate was trying to tip me
off to something here.

718
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,520
Brad, I'm going to give it a six
out of 10 on the flavor.

719
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,560
And I I probably sounded harsher
than I meant to be, but at the

720
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,760
end of the day, like this is a
$18.00 bottle of whiskey for a

721
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,000
reason.
Yeah, yeah, 100%, man.

722
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,200
I think that the finish is fine.
It's light and floral.

723
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,240
I give it a 6 1/2 on the finish.
I think a balance wise, I'll

724
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:37,080
give it a 7 1/2.
I don't think that there is

725
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,200
anything wrong with this
whiskey.

726
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,240
I think that the negative notes
are consistent throughout.

727
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,280
The positive notes are
consistent throughout.

728
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,680
And so because of that, I'm not
going to give it anything super

729
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:54,560
high, but a 7 1/2 on the balance
and Bob for 18 bucks like this

730
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,840
is a really solid value.
I'm going to give it a 7 1/2 out

731
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,360
of 10 here.
All right.

732
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,320
So just to recap, I'm going to
give mine, I'm going to go back

733
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,560
to where you started finish.
I'm going to give a 6 1/2 like

734
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,320
you balance.
I'll give a 7 1/2 like you.

735
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,200
And what'd you give on value?
7 1/2.

736
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,400
Yeah, I mean, I think that this
is about as good as you can find

737
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,280
for $18.00.
It's also like not a great

738
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,640
whiskey.
I'm not mad at it 'cause it's

739
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:29,400
$18.00, but there's a there's an
almost like Splenda sweetness to

740
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,240
this on the on the back part of
the palate and it's kind of

741
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:34,840
hanging with me.
I don't know if it would make a

742
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,800
great mixer.
I think it's a little bit too

743
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,800
light to really stand up in a
cocktail.

744
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,040
You know, if you want to use
this for Irish coffee or

745
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,480
something like, go for it.
But it's a nice little sipper

746
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,840
when you have already had the
good stuff.

747
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,880
It's like Jesus at the the
wedding at Cana.

748
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,400
You know what I mean?
Like drink your good whiskey and

749
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,920
then bust out the Clontarf.
I'll give it a 7 1/2 as well,

750
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,680
Brad.
And that's taking me to a 34.5

751
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,200
out of 50.
Yeah, I am at a 34 out of 50

752
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,400
Bob.
Like I think this is a solid

753
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,400
Irish whiskey at a bargain
price.

754
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,720
I would probably pay like
$2324.00 for this.

755
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:18,040
So at at a sub 20 price, you
really can't beat this Bob.

756
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,640
No, you can't.
And we're coming out to a 34.25

757
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:26,640
out of 50 or 68 1/2 out of 100.
That sounds a little low, like a

758
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,480
68 is like a failing grade.
I actually think this is

759
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,360
significantly better than that.
But like at the end of the day

760
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,840
it's pretty much a six whiskey
across the board at a really

761
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,840
good price point.
I'm going to recommend this

762
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,640
Brad.
Like, you know, if you want to

763
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,080
try an Irish whiskey just to get
a sense of what it could taste

764
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,040
like, this is not a bad place to
start.

765
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,760
Yeah, 100%, man.
I I think that Klon Tarf is

766
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,760
doing good stuff here.
I kind of want to go to Ireland

767
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,400
and try some of the things they
have over there 'cause I can

768
00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:00,560
imagine a world where a little
better age single malt would be

769
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,600
really solid from this
distillery.

770
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,920
This might have been the perfect
thing to match up with this

771
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,480
movie.
Like, it is good and it it is

772
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:12,280
clearly hinting at and mimicking
other, better products.

773
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,200
But like, I'm not mad at it, you
know.

774
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,840
Yeah, 100% dude.
All right, let's get back into

775
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,680
talking about the Chronicles of
Narnia.

776
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:25,360
What do you say?
All right, everybody.

777
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,400
That was Clontarf.
Something, something, something,

778
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,760
a whiskey that we really liked
for what it was.

779
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,960
Yeah, And it was something.
Something something.

780
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,320
Yeah, What?
What was it actually called?

781
00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:40,200
Clontarf Classic Blend.
Ah, that good old classic blend.

782
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,800
I do still like calling it the
clonicles of Tarpia, so continue

783
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,920
doing that.
The clontarficles of Narnia.

784
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,440
All right, Brad, after we took a
week off last week, I am very

785
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,360
eager to get into our next game,
which we call 2 facts and a

786
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,400
falsehood.
Brad is going to try to stump

787
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,840
your bomb.
Two are right and what is wrong?

788
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,880
2 facts and a falsehood. 2 Facts
and a Falsehood is the part of

789
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,400
the show where Brad presents me
with three items as fact about

790
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,640
the making of this movie, one of
which is a complete lie and I

791
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,440
have to figure out which one
that is.

792
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:24,000
Last week Brad said that he felt
guilty because he didn't want to

793
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,520
shame Catholic Jesus and so we
took took a week off.

794
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,320
I'm going to claim it as a moral
victory, if nothing else.

795
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,920
My record is.
This Jesus dying on the cross

796
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,640
for your sins is a moral victory
for you Bob.

797
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,440
Yeah.
It's not gone right.

798
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:43,560
That's a That's a trick.
Question.

799
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,200
I was gonna say, wait a minute.
I think I understand how this

800
00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:50,080
works.
All right, so I'm sitting at

801
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,440
11:00 and 6:00 on the season.
Brad, let's see what you got.

802
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,640
Hit me with your two facts and a
falsehood.

803
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,880
Fact #1.
The wardrobe featured in the

804
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:05,040
film belonged to Lord Lord, Lord
George Cummington, Earl of

805
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,480
Belfast, CS Lewis's hometown.
Covington's father shared a

806
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,560
friendship with Lewis himself,
prompting his son to offer the

807
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,640
wardrobe for use in the film as
a tribute.

808
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,520
Fact #2 When the adults swearing
got out of hand on set, Georgie

809
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,680
Henley, who played Lucy, set up
a swear jar.

810
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,760
James McAvoy was supposedly the
worst offender.

811
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,920
Even her teenage costars had to
pay their toll.

812
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,680
Fact #3, the movie was primarily
shot in chronological order,

813
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,880
with the exception of the final
scene where the Pevencies fall

814
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,680
out of the wardrobe.
That scene was shot before all

815
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,760
of the outdoor shots, so that
the kids would still be pale and

816
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,880
look like they had and look like
they had at the film's

817
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,080
beginning.
OK, I'm just going to say this

818
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,320
now.
We have already made mention of

819
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,080
the Freudian reading of this
movie and we have made fun of

820
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,040
the word Beaver.
So I really hope that you didn't

821
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,600
just make up a character named
Lord Cummington.

822
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,200
That's all I'm gonna say.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna take it.

823
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:08,960
I'm just gonna hope that one is
true.

824
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,480
I'm not gonna pick it as the
falsehoods because the Freudian

825
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,960
reading will be really weird if
that's the falsehood.

826
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,560
So #2 or #3?
I don't know man, #2 sounds

827
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,080
really plausible.
And James McAvoy loves to drop

828
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:27,000
an F bomb in a lot of movies #3
sounds really plausible too,

829
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,480
because not just because the
kids are are pale in those

830
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,520
sequences, but a lot of times
you only have locations secured

831
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,040
for a few days so you have to
shoot everything you can there.

832
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:47,680
Brad, I'm going to say that
Three is the falsehood because

833
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:52,080
they just didn't shoot it in
chronological order anyway, and

834
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,520
I have no other reason for
saying that other than I just

835
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,200
don't want it to be Lord
Cummington.

836
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:01,880
Bob, do you know why #2 and #3
sounded so plausible?

837
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:04,960
Because they're facts.
Because they're facts, baby.

838
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,400
You made-up Lord Cummington.
I did not.

839
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:15,240
I googled, make up a British
name and it came up with Lord

840
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:19,640
George Cummington.
It is spelled COMING.

841
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,240
Sure it is, Brad.
It sure is.

842
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,200
Anytime that was so, that was
not a creation of of my own.

843
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:32,600
It was Google having a a bit of
a edible, complex Freudian

844
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:35,440
Freudian thing.
Anytime we watch a movie that

845
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,640
you'd say is dirty.
From now on, I'm just going to

846
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,800
say, oh, what did Lord
Cummington show up?

847
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:45,480
All right.
I will take my L Lord Cummington

848
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,200
got me again.
Brad he.

849
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,520
Got you again.
When did he get you?

850
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,640
The first time.
Don't ask, don't ask.

851
00:47:55,240 --> 00:47:57,800
Bro, this is this is a
children's movie.

852
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,000
Let's get back into talking
about Marnia and Brad.

853
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,720
We haven't talked about Tilda
Swinton, who is the top build

854
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:06,560
person in this movie.
Really interesting career Tilda

855
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,680
Swinton has had.
She's been an working actress

856
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,360
since at least the 90s, maybe
earlier than that.

857
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,000
She's an indie darling.
She's still working in an

858
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,720
independent film a lot and like
she is known amongst the general

859
00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:21,240
population for being like the
weird looking one.

860
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,640
And I I hate to say it like
that, but like she's a very

861
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:28,320
interesting looking face.
She's a phenomenal actress and I

862
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,280
had some weird struggles with
her performance here.

863
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:36,480
Not because she's bad, but I
almost feel like she's she gave

864
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:41,640
this move, this character, too
many layers for the movie that

865
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,440
was being made around her.
She's like she's developing a

866
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,400
very complex character because
the White Witch is not just

867
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,960
like, I'm going to shout at you
and be demonically evil.

868
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,720
She's cunning and she's really,
really good at tricking.

869
00:48:56,720 --> 00:48:59,040
Especially that scene with
Edmund at the beginning, She's

870
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,080
it's like chilling how you're
watching her manipulate a child.

871
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,760
She's not playing it with like a
wink to the camera.

872
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,360
She's not playing it as I'm, you
know, the witch with an apple

873
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,200
seducing Snow White.
It's it's like psychological

874
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,600
damage.
She's doing this kid and it's

875
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:21,440
played so well, but it almost
feels like the movie paints in

876
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:25,160
really broad strokes and it
almost needed somebody who was

877
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,480
more of a standard cartoonish
villain.

878
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,640
And so I feel weird saying that
like the performance doesn't

879
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:35,120
work, but it it kind of doesn't
work because she's doing more

880
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,360
than the movies doing around
her.

881
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,120
Bob, you know what?
You just said?

882
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,920
Tilda Swinton is too good for
this movie.

883
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,560
Kind of.
I mean, yeah.

884
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,680
I think there's a version of
this performance that she's just

885
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:54,760
like, OK, like, I'm just gonna
do the, like, Jeremy Irons as

886
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:58,560
Scar, like just ham it up, you
know, and and it's great.

887
00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:00,440
But she doesn't do that.
She's trying something more

888
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,520
subtle here and it kind of just
sticks out like a sore thumb, if

889
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:08,440
I'm being honest.
Oh man, I I will.

890
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,680
I have watched enough movies and
reviewed enough with you, Bob,

891
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:15,040
to know that you are not the
Snooty cinephile.

892
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:20,720
But but Tilda turns in a hell of
a performance here.

893
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,880
I like.
I don't know what there is to

894
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,280
complain.
She gives this movie a depth

895
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,520
that would not exist without
her.

896
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:33,560
I think the movie could work
with a Jeremy Irons a scar type

897
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,800
performance.
Like, I'm not saying that that

898
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:40,560
part of the point is invalid.
I guess what I'm saying is of

899
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:45,160
all the performances in this
movie, Tilda Swinton is an A+

900
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,880
and she doesn't need to be.
She could take her paycheck.

901
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,280
That's what I'm saying like.
A garbage performance, but she

902
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:55,920
doesn't.
This is this is Michael Caine

903
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,040
with a bunch of freaking Muppets
around him and it makes the

904
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,880
movie better.
And I am all in on Tilda Swinton

905
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,000
here.
That's a great analogy, dude,

906
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,520
because I I agree with the
analogy.

907
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,200
I don't agree that it makes the
movie better and it's but it's

908
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,640
not her fault so I'm not
complaining about her.

909
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,800
But it's like she is adding
layers and layers of depth to a

910
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,520
character that would be right at
home in Lord of the Rings and

911
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,840
and doesn't feel at home in this
movie.

912
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,360
And it's almost like, I don't
know, I just felt like I was

913
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,040
having the world of Narnia
opened up to me.

914
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,400
Every time I looked at her, I
was like, what is this?

915
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,960
I I feel wonderment at this
character.

916
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:38,160
And then every other character
is just like, oi, I'm a Beaver,

917
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,960
do you know what I mean?
Like there's just there's no,

918
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,560
there's no no other subtle
things happening in the whole

919
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,960
movie.
Oi, I'm a Beaver.

920
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:53,200
That's my whole personality.
Oh man.

921
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,080
Although Ray Ray Winstone
voicing that Beaver.

922
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,640
Oh, he's incredible.
It's so good.

923
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,560
It's so good, man.
Would you see him running around

924
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,000
with armor on?
You're like, yeah, why not?

925
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,720
Of course.
He's a warrior dude.

926
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:15,080
The the little back and forth
jibes or digs that Mister and

927
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,760
Misses Beaver taking each other
are incredible.

928
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,320
And they're all somehow related
to her cooking, you know?

929
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,560
Yes.
And she's like making fun of him

930
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,800
for like, drinking too much with
his buddy.

931
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,840
It See that man.
Those are the moments that work

932
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:33,640
in this movie.
Like when we get away from the

933
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,040
Here's a quest you are.
There's a prophecy.

934
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,560
Go, go, go, dude.
When?

935
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:44,760
When When Beaver looks at the
stone version of Badger and

936
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,400
like, you've heard the jokes
with his wife about his

937
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:52,120
relationship with Badger, and
then you hear him go.

938
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:54,400
He was my best.
Dude, it's crushing.

939
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:56,120
It's.
So good.

940
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,440
Those are the moments where this
movie succeeds.

941
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,800
It's kind of like an analogy
that I would try to make is it's

942
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:07,560
kind of like Dobby in the Harry
Potter series, where Dobby is

943
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,560
like they they made a vast
improvement on the Jar Jar Binks

944
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,840
prototype and they were like,
this is Dobby and he's gonna

945
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,240
kind of suck in the first film
you see him in.

946
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,480
Jar Jar 2.0.
Yeah, 'cause, like you're like,

947
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,280
oh, this is annoying as hell.
And by the end of the movie he

948
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,840
says Dobby is free.
And you're like, yeah, Dobby

949
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,560
Dobby's my boy.
And then when you see Dobby die

950
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,520
at the end of the 7th movie,
you're like, that was one of the

951
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,760
best characters ever made.
I can't believe they just killed

952
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,480
him.
And I kind of feel like that

953
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,680
with a lot of these side
characters in Narnia.

954
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,280
James McAvoy is inspired casting
for Mr. Tumnus.

955
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,520
He's so good and he brings a
much more like a much softer

956
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,120
side of himself to that
performance.

957
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:49,080
I think Ray Winstone as Beaver
is incredible and and I wish

958
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:54,360
that there was that much care
and attention and color given to

959
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,720
the human characters in this
movie because the Pevency

960
00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:00,880
children, while they are like
the audience surrogate, they're

961
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,560
also the blandest characters I
would say in the whole film.

962
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,760
Yeah, yeah, they they kind of
are just a little bit.

963
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,200
And I like, I think that that's
OK the, the film doesn't

964
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:17,720
necessarily need them to like
Shine crazily bright.

965
00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:21,360
But I don't know man, we're back
to the Tilda Swinton thing.

966
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,120
Like sure, everybody.
It'd be better if everyone

967
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,440
turned in an A+ performance.
It would.

968
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:31,000
It would be better this this
band of four Mary hobbits that

969
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,040
we have in these four children
needed a Mary and Pippin, and

970
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,680
they also needed a Frodo and
Sam, and they didn't have any of

971
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,800
those.
Like, there's not fun characters

972
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,080
represented in the four.
And there's also not like the

973
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:47,440
two characters you love the way
there are Frodo and Sam, and I

974
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:51,720
think they want it to be either
Lucy and what's his sister's

975
00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:56,920
name, Susan or Lucy and Peter.
But you don't really catch the

976
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:58,840
bond between any of them that
way.

977
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,440
And so that, like, you already
don't have as much of an

978
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,160
emotional connection with these
kids.

979
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,480
And then, Brad, if I can make
perhaps my most controversial

980
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,120
statement in an episode where
we've talked about Lord

981
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:14,880
Cummington, I have never wanted
to watch a child die on screen

982
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:19,640
more than Edmund.
That kid sucked so much.

983
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,720
And I look like I understand how
the gospel works.

984
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:27,720
I know that, Aslan.
Jesus especially dies for Edmund

985
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,600
specifically because he is the
worst among us and it is a

986
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,720
metaphor.
I get that I do not care.

987
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:36,000
I like as Land forgives Bob
book.

988
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,080
Does not that kid have you?
Seen The Voyage of the Dawn

989
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:42,120
Treader.
I have not, no.

990
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,320
Oh dude, you don't even know
what you're in for.

991
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,120
Oh, does Edmond get drawn and
quartered 'cause I.

992
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:56,840
Know so there is a Their cousin
Eustace goes into Narnia with

993
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:03,040
with Edmond and Lucy.
And Eustace is like Edmond on

994
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:07,160
steroids.
He sucks so hard.

995
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,960
He is so much worse than Edmond
and I'm with you 100%.

996
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,440
Edmond is the worst in this
movie.

997
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:18,400
He has the most punchable face
of any 11 year old I've ever

998
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,120
seen.
He he is like, in this.

999
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,760
I wish I could have thought
about my Mount Rushmore of kids

1000
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:26,360
like this, but he has the kind
of face that reminds me of

1001
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:30,680
Alfalfa from The Little Rascals,
where it's like like every time

1002
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,040
you see that kid come on screen,
you're like this fucking kid.

1003
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,040
Like, you just like you just
hate him and you want to punch

1004
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,240
him and he kind of looks like
Alfalfa.

1005
00:56:38,240 --> 00:56:40,240
And I don't know if you
remember, but when the kid that

1006
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:43,560
played Alfalfa back in the 30s
grew up, he was in It's a

1007
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,920
Wonderful Life for a Hot 2nd.
And he's the kid that wanted to

1008
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,480
open the floor underneath George
Bailey and make them all.

1009
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,760
Yeah, that's Alfalfa.
That's Edmund.

1010
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:57,240
I hate both of those kids.
And I like for the whole movie,

1011
00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:00,280
I was like, man, why does Aslan
have to forgive this kid?

1012
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,440
He's the worst.
People died because of Edmund,

1013
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,600
and they're just like as like
just like, oh, what's done is

1014
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,640
done.
Like, whoa, hold on, Like, what

1015
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:13,080
about freaking Mr. Fox?
He died because Edmond sucks.

1016
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,040
Yeah, he sure did.
And I liked Mr. Fox.

1017
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:17,720
I did too.
Yeah.

1018
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:20,760
I'm sorry, I I had to get that
off my chest.

1019
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,280
No, it's OK man.
Any any other children you want

1020
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:24,800
to murder?
No, just that one.

1021
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,760
For now.
All of my rage has been directed

1022
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,640
to Edmond.
OK, yeah, that's that's fine

1023
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:30,520
with me, man.
Cool.

1024
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:32,880
All right, Brad.
Well, I think with that off my

1025
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,440
chest, if there's nothing else
about the film itself that you

1026
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,160
want to talk about, then it is
time for us to get to our last

1027
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:42,040
segment of the day, which we
call Let's make it a Double.

1028
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,600
We're near the end of the
episode, so thanks listening to

1029
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,440
the film and whiskey show.
Let's pair another film with

1030
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:49,840
this one, even if it's
struggling.

1031
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,440
It's a final segment of the day.
Now let's make it a double.

1032
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,440
Let's make it a double is the
part of the show where we pick a

1033
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,160
movie to pair up with this one
to make the perfect double

1034
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:01,160
feature.
Brad, I'm anxious to hear yours

1035
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:04,880
because I think the most obvious
comparison point is Lord of the

1036
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:06,760
Rings.
But I doubt that you went with

1037
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,040
that.
So I'd like to hear what you

1038
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,840
thought of for your let's make
it a double.

1039
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,600
You know, Bob, I, I was
struggling with a movie to pick

1040
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:19,880
for this.
I think a good a good pairing as

1041
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:24,000
far as like quality and
enjoyability goes, because I

1042
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,880
think that Chronicles of Narnia
is like a relatively high,

1043
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:32,400
enjoyably enjoyable film with
like an above average quality of

1044
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,080
production.
I'm going to pair it with

1045
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:39,880
Stardust from 2007.
There's AI feel like there was

1046
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,400
100 movies like this in the mid
2000s.

1047
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:45,840
There was another movie called
Zathura that was kind of like

1048
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,680
like I didn't see compass, I
didn't see any of them and

1049
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:52,480
they're all the same movie in my
like I I've just jumbled all

1050
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,280
their posters together.
So tell me about Stardust.

1051
00:58:55,280 --> 00:59:00,200
What's that movie?
There is a young man who sees

1052
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,000
this beautiful girl, falls in
love with her, follows her to

1053
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:07,960
like the edge of town, and it's
almost like a magical version of

1054
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,600
what's the it's like the village
or something.

1055
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:16,160
Is that the Shyamalan movie,
where there's like at the edge

1056
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,200
of the woods there's others
living out there?

1057
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:22,640
It's kind of like that where she
disappears across this magical

1058
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:27,000
veil and he's trying to find her
and he goes on this adventure to

1059
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:31,320
cross the magical veil and save
her from this evil witch and and

1060
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:36,760
it's just kind of a generic fun
action adventure movie that you

1061
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:42,040
know, it's it's nothing great.
I think it has like a 7.57 point

1062
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,520
6 on IMDb.
So like, it's just a really fun

1063
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,360
action adventure fantasy movie.
Nice.

1064
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,520
All right, so Brad's pairing it
with Stardust.

1065
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,800
I'm going to pick a movie called
A Monster Calls.

1066
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,000
It's a really good movie, and I
I haven't had a chance to

1067
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,640
recommend it before on this
podcast.

1068
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:02,600
But essentially it's a movie
about a kid whose mom has a

1069
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:08,040
terminal illness and he runs off
every day into the woods and he

1070
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:11,560
kind of imagines this giant
monster that he talks to.

1071
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,320
And it's a movie that's it's all
about processing through grief

1072
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,120
and processing through trauma.
The monster in the movie is

1073
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,400
voiced by Liam Neeson.
It's an incredibly emotional

1074
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,880
movie and like just a really
good way.

1075
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,000
I think you know it, it'd be
better for teenagers, but it's a

1076
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,800
really good way to teach kids
about processing through trauma

1077
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,680
and grief.
And it has Liam Neeson voicing

1078
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,280
the the main monster of the
movie.

1079
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,360
But beyond the Liam Neeson of it
all, I think it's just a really

1080
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:45,680
good example of how we can use
creatures that aren't real to

1081
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:48,760
act as a metaphor for things
that are happening in our lives

1082
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,120
or things that are happening
kind of cosmically the way that

1083
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,480
Ashland does in this movie.
So I really love this movie and

1084
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:55,640
I've never recommended it
before.

1085
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:58,880
It's called A Monster Calls.
All right, I I'm in.

1086
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:00,480
Man, that sounds really
interesting.

1087
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:04,040
All right, Brad, let's give this
movie some final scores.

1088
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,640
I'll go first.
I don't think that this movie,

1089
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,320
I'm sure that there's someone
out there that hates this movie.

1090
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,040
But what I think about this
movie, I can't really see

1091
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:14,960
anybody giving it less than like
A5.

1092
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:18,200
Like at at the worst reading of
this movie is like it is

1093
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,880
mediocre.
I also think that it's going to

1094
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,160
be hard to find anyone out there
that thinks this movie is like a

1095
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:27,600
10 and it just kind of feels
like the natural bell curve of

1096
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,440
this movie is between A5 and an
8.

1097
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:34,480
And so I I I look at the 6.9 on
IMDb and I'm like it does look a

1098
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,880
little low, but I can see how it
would land somewhere in there

1099
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:40,560
and you said like even a 7 two
would make more sense.

1100
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:42,280
That's kind of where I'm at with
this movie.

1101
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:47,320
It is like almost there in every
facet and it kind of just

1102
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,240
depends on when you get out of
this movie at the two hour and

1103
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,440
20 minute mark, do you
ultimately feel like it was a

1104
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,720
good investment of your time or
a waste of your time?

1105
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:57,960
And I think that's what's going
to determine, are you a six or

1106
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:00,800
A7 on this movie?
I didn't think it was a waste of

1107
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,400
time.
I like this movie quite a bit.

1108
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:04,800
I don't.
I don't think I'll give it a 7

1109
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,760
1/2, but I will give it a 7 out
of 10.

1110
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,080
OK.
I I think that that's a fair

1111
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,720
score Bob.
I I am a little bit higher.

1112
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:17,360
I really really enjoy this movie
and and it's been an IP that

1113
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:21,720
I've liked for most of my life.
I'm at an 8 out of 10.

1114
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:26,040
I I think that the the child
performances are all as we said

1115
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:30,160
like B minus to B plus range.
You have an incredible

1116
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,280
performance from Tilda Swinton
and some of the voice actors

1117
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:37,000
from the animal characters.
I I'm just I'm in on this movie

1118
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:38,560
man.
It's a movie that I will come

1119
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:42,560
back to every three or four
years like gladly and really

1120
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:46,080
enjoy it.
All right, so we are at a 7.5

1121
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:48,680
out of 10 on average.
But we'd like to know what you

1122
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:50,920
think.
How long has it been since

1123
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:53,400
you've seen The Chronicles of
Narnia, The Lion, The Witch, and

1124
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,240
the Wardrobe?
I should say they did make two

1125
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:58,280
more movies.
For me, it was 19 years.

1126
01:02:58,480 --> 01:02:59,920
Does anybody have my record
beat?

1127
01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:01,920
Because I'm pretty sure I saw it
like opening weekend.

1128
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,080
So come join me, Brothers in
Arms.

1129
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,120
Let us know what you thought of
this movie.

1130
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,560
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1131
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:14,120
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1132
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,080
Or you can jump onto the
Discord.

1133
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,680
We are on there every single day
talking to you guys, fans of the

1134
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:21,920
Film and Whiskey Podcast.
If you want to join the

1135
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,760
conversation, you can find a
link to our Discord at the end

1136
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:26,440
of every single one of our show
notes.

1137
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,520
Next week we are just tipping
things into Funville.

1138
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:31,720
For a week we're looking at a
movie that I can't believe

1139
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:36,040
grossed this much money, but it
is 2006's Night at the Museum.

1140
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,960
Fun fact.
A film that Bob Book has never

1141
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:40,400
seen.
What?

1142
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,080
Yeah, I'm pretty pumped.
I've never seen it before.

1143
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,240
So we'll be joined by a very
special guest who'll be making

1144
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:47,800
his first time appearance on the
show.

1145
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,480
So TuneIn next week for Night at
the Museum.

1146
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:54,480
But until then, I'm Bob Book.
I'm Brad G.

1147
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:56,200
And we'll see you next time.