'Damsel' Review | Netflix

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Hey, I'm Derek.
And I'm Noah.

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Course.
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Well, you know, we we want to
talk about this damsel.

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Damsel.
Oh my God.

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Millie Bobby Brown's Damsel
Netflix movie.

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That Millie Bobby Brown, she's
really come around.

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Does she deserve the crown?
Rhyme time.

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Yeah.
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So today, Damsel, we're doing
like kind of like a A Small

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nibble review, right?
It's a enjoyable movie.

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It's short and sweet, so why
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Yeah, this is like a fast food.
Oh yeah.

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You know what I mean?
Yeah, easy.

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It goes down easy.
It's tasty.

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It's small.
It gets the job done.

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That's my review and the
episode.

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Hopefully not bad at nutrition
though.

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Well, it could have been trimmed
a little bit around the edges.

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We'll find out.
So spoilers spoiler review.

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If you have not seen Damsel on
Netflix, go watch it, Come back

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and let's talk.
About it All right, so let us

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officially take a bite of Danzel
Danzel Denzel Washington.

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Let us officially take a bite of
damsel.

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Written by Dan Mazzo and
directed by Juan Carlos

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Fresnadillo, Elodie is committed
to taking care of her family and

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village.
Unfortunately for her, the harsh

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winter is leaving her people
starving.

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Her father receives a message
from Queen Isabel that her son,

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Prince Henry, is looking for a
young girl to marry.

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If she agrees to be his wife,
Elodie's people will receive an

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abundance of riches.
Her dedication leads her to

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agreeing to taking his hand.
However, the Kingdom harbors a

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dark secret and Elodie is only a
pawn.

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After their union, they travel
to the top of a mountain where

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she is thrown into a pit as a
sacrifice for a vengeful dragon.

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See spoilers.
That's a whole movie.

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I left out the prologue.
Boy, that's about it.

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All right, so before we get into
the nitty gritty of this,

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initial thoughts.
So my initial thoughts are that

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I really thought it was a quick,
fun fantasy action.

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I thought Melly Bobby Brown did
a great job leading this cast

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and all said is done.
I mean, I'm not saying it's high

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art, but I'm also not saying
it's trash.

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It was thoroughly enjoyable.
So you're saying it shouldn't be

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burnt to a crisp by the dragon?
Absolutely.

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It should not be heated over a
bridge and sacrificed.

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Yeah, I mean, I agree, right.
It's not, you know, I I think

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going into this, I wouldn't
expect something like high brow

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or anything like that, but it
was a good time.

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It does.
It's like the conceit of it.

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It's kind of like a revenge type
thing and like, you know, Bride

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to be in a sham marriage for an
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But yeah, it's been said and
done before.

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Having it in the fantasy setting
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And I think Millie Bobby Brown's
performance really carried the

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movie visuals great.
Yeah, I had a fun time.

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Absolutely.
We watched this on a Saturday

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morning, and I know that sounds
bizarre, but it was actually

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kind of perfect, right?
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It was like almost Saturday
morning cartoon fair.

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It wasn't too heavy and it was
like kind of like, yeah, that

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was that kind of rocked.
Yeah, let's go out to our day

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now.
What were the things that really

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worked for you for this movie?
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Mellie, Bobby Brown was
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So seeing her kind of grow up
before our eyes starting as 11

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and Stranger Things, you know,
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think I've said this on the pod
before her 11 and Stranger

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Things kind of became
repetitive, especially in the

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last season where we would see
her use her power and she would

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faint.
So I really appreciated getting

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to see Millie Bobby Brown really
kind of go for it in this action

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set.
She was screaming, she was

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running, she was, you know,
ripping up clothes and things

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like that.
So I think that watching her be

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able to really kind of chew on
this material was.

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Great.
And it's cool too, because you

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see her career progressing,
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She did Enola Holmes, which we
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Also very fun movies.
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for this.
So it's cool to see her, you

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know, literally just growing up.
It's almost in a way like

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mirroring her career in a way.
And she's being able to defeat

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the big Dragon.
I really like it.

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I think the thing that, you
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itself is a little disjointed.
Like the middle part gets a

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little repetitive and the ending
was a little rushed.

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But you know, if there was
another one for some reason, I'd

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watch it.
Yeah, I agree.

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I would definitely watch it, you
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the things that this sort of has
going for it, you know, when it

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comes to these high fantasy
things, sometimes there are a

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lot of different places and a
lot of different characters, but

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the cast is pretty tight, right?
I'd say there are like 6 main

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players to this entire thing.
And really just two main

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players, the Dragon and Millie
Poppy Brown.

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Totally.
And then even on top of that, as

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far as places that you're going,
you're only in her village for a

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little bit.
You're in the Kingdom and in the

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mountain, Yeah, And that's about
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I like that sometimes, you know,
I'm sure you've seen the memes

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or the tik toks where it's like
reading a a fantasy and you're

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just like they go to the blah
blah exactly.

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And it's like I.
Liked that?

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We didn't get any of that.
Sometimes fantasy is just nice

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to be like Brain turned off.
I want to see the story unfold.

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Things that really worked for
me, the cast and I liked that.

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The whole concept of the damsel,
she's not actually damsel, she's

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saved herself.
But I liked that the main

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players in this were also women,
because we have Angela Bassett,

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we have Robin Wright and Millie
Bobby Brown, even the dragon.

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I mean, they're all, all the
main players are women and all

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of the awful people are also the
men in this.

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And one woman.
And one woman, it's very good.

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So those are the things that
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I think visually looked good.
There was only a few times where

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the CGI was a little wonky, like
when the dragon was flying away

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with them.
I was like, oh weird, like the

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lighting doesn't look right.
I'm not an expert in any way,

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just visually what I.
See a dragon flying.

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The dragon itself, great.
I liked the design of it because

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it wasn't what you would expect.
You know you're almost I feel

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like we're trained to think of
like Game of Thrones Dragons and

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this one was very like cave like
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Felt like she had almost some
Griffin in her especially, just

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like with how big her arms and
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You know, it wasn't like a
Tyrannosaurus Rex dragon, right?

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It was like, really grounded in
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She had like a like a high
abdomen almost, yeah.

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I agree.
And the dragon is voiced by

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Shore Aguera Shloo, and that
voice is just so supremely

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perfect.
I mean, it's like, I think now

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we have 2 perfect voice actors.
For Dragons, we have Benedict

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Cumberbatch and her perfect.
Like, they sound so good as

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Dragons.
I love them.

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But having her be the voice of
it, especially in The Cave and

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when she's, you know, going
after the Millie Bobby Brown,

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it's just intense and kind of
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But even in the moments where
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this, she still was able to
voice those things.

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You know, it wasn't just scary
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Absolutely, yeah.
I mean I think that she, as you

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know, we always talk about
depth, but I think that she was

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able to give this dragon depth,
you know, and the the back story

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of the dragon is something that
really feeds into the plot and

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allows us to basically side with
the dragon through some.

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Of this fair, you know the whole
thing of like them thinking, you

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know the dragon came into their
town.

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No, you came into the dragon
space and then killed the

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children of the dragon.
The only the last of the line.

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Unprovoked.
Unprovoked.

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So, you know, fair.
Yeah, Yeah.

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I mean, sacrificing, you know,
the daughters for like 100 years

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kind of sucks.
But also the wrong daughters.

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Kind of suck, but they're like,
we're not going to give up our

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line.
But watch this.

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I I liked that.
I liked, you know, there's not

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many twists and stuff, and the
twists aren't like you don't see

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them coming.
You can kind of see them coming,

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which plays into the easy
watching of this.

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But I thought it was smart for
them to just mix the blood

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together and then literally
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The chasm, like, is insane.
It's, it's.

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Yeeting.
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Like that girl Yeats that can in
the hallway, he Yeats, these

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girls over the edge of this
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And it's it was that was kind of
tough to watch, you know

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watching her being LED, feeling
like prey and then thrown over

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the edge and it's like a chasm,
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I mean, I don't know how this
girl survived, to be completely

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honest.
If that were me.

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Bones shattered dead.
I want to definitely read the

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book.
After this.

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There was a book that was
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It adapted the screenplay of
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So technically the script came
first and then they gave it to

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the author and the author could
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And I do know it more has Asian
characters in it, so I'm more

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interested in reading that after
watching this.

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Yeah, so I I had read an article
on The Hollywood Reporter and I

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just wanted to share this quote
by Evelyn Sky, the author.

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She says the easiest way to
think about it is this.

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Dan Mazzo wrote the original
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I was able to read an early
draft and was given free reign

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to write my own version of the
story, which ultimately became

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the novel.
Both the novel and the movie may

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stem from the same origin, but
they are also each their own

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unique works of art.
I've heard really good things

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about the novel, so I'm excited
to read it.

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If you've read it, let us know.
Yeah, I would love to know that.

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And it's really interesting what
Netflix is doing with this,

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right?
This is the second time they did

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this.
They did this with the Queen

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Charlotte story for Bridgerton.
And it's like when they know

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that they're going to have a
property come out that could

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possibly be in a book, they
bring in an author and release

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them at the same time.
It's.

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Smart.
You know, it's it's, it's almost

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like most of the big studios
doing merch, like creating toys.

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Netflix is like, well, let's
like do books, yeah.

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What's another way they can
interact with the story I know?

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I really liked it.
I thought the action of this

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it's kind of action light like
there is action but it's more

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like cat and mouse type stuff.
Definitely.

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I thought that worked really
well, the initial chasing.

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So when she first gets into that
big cavern and you first see

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that bird that's on fire and
then the flock of birds that are

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on fire.
It's was such a cool

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introduction to this of like how
it's going to because you could

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see the dragon messing with her,
like she's there's corpses of

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pasts, princesses, innocent
princesses that were killed.

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And so like, you can see that
she's kind of playing with them

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almost and fairly, you know, for
what she thinks she's doing.

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Great introduction for.
I thought it was really good.

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It got a little repetitive.
It's like, OK, OK, OK, OK, like

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she's going to escape.
But I do not expect a jump,

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like, a jump scare almost.
Or like the dragon to attack as

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she did when she got to the edge
of that Cliff.

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Oh yeah, And she's yelling for
the people to help her.

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And the dragon just comes right
into that.

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I was like, that was good.
Yeah, I I I felt like with the

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dragon, the Dragons alone for a
long time.

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So when one of these girls drops
down, she's going to take her

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time with eating them.
And so one of the things about

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this that I liked in the story,
but I'm kind of questioning just

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at the execution of it, was that
when she gets into this one safe

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space, she sees scrawled on the
walls the names of the girls who

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had died.
One girl in particular is named

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V, who has sort of mapped out
this layer, tells her what's

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where, where the Dragon's going
to be.

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And so that I really liked.
Right.

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But then we have this other
piece where she's able to see

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the ghosts of these girls,
right.

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And so when V showed up, I was
like, oh, that was really cool.

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But there's a part when she's in
the castle before she's thrown

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over before she gets married,
where she sees in the one of the

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windows of the castle a
Princess, and that turns out to

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be one of the princesses that
died before her.

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I see.
That's where I'm.

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I feel like the story is a
little disjointed because I

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don't know.
Like I don't know if she was

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already killed or if she then
got killed after her.

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Because remember, there's three,
and by the end of it, when she

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goes to the castle, there's a
wedding happening and she's

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going to be the third one
because they think Lodi escaped,

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you know, So that would almost
make sense.

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Like she had to have been before
her, right?

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And then it's her sister and
then this new person.

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So that is interesting.
Yeah, so I think that's what I

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was trying to piece together.
Was that one part in particular?

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Was she a ghost she was seeing
in the castle, or was she still

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alive?
Because she does see her down in

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The Cave, and she does look
freshly killed.

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Yeah, so she might have been
that night.

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Right.
So these people are busy.

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They're going up and down the
mountain.

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They're planning these parties.
They're throwing girls over.

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I'm like.
Come on, it's a Prince Henry,

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which I love.
Like just the base of it, right?

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It's like it's a a fantasy
story.

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It's a fairy tale that we all
know.

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And of course, the prince's name
is Henry.

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It's a very standard Eric Henry
James name.

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So it's like, did he that night
go throw her And then the next

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morning they're like, hi, we're
getting married.

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He's like, this is like freaking
Groundhog's Day.

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Keep marrying these girls.
Yeah, but he actually, he's

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played by Nick Robinson, who we
love from Love Simon.

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And so, I mean, he isn't in it
that much, but apparently he's

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so charming that he gets these
girls to fall in love with him

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in one night.
Yeah, I mean, he didn't.

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He doesn't have to do much.
He just has to stroll in the

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garden for like 2 seconds.
Yeah, you know, let's.

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His hair blow in the wind.
Yeah, the whole system of it.

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Again, the the plot or the
reason for is really

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interesting.
You know, it's like, if you

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think about it, it's like how
many times did they have to do

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this in for generations?
And clearly they're getting

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women or girls or brides from
places that need it.

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So it kind of corners them into
having to do it.

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Real fucked up, really.
Oh yeah.

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Fucked up.
So here's another fucked up

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thing that I wanted to ask you
about.

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So when they're at the castle
before she's married, her father

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goes into a meeting with Queen
Isabel and we don't see it.

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We're on the outside with their
stepmother, played by Angela

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Bassett, and he comes out and he
doesn't want to tell her what

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happened in the meeting.
So he basically knew.

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And he was like, yeah, cool.
Well, he seemed to have been

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struggling with this
information.

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Yeah.
I mean, I don't think I did.

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Like when he's dying in The Cave
after he decides to have a

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conscience and goes back to save
his daughter.

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And he's like, forgive me, She
doesn't say she forgives him,

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which I did like.
I mean, she does kiss him

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because it's father, her father.
But I did like that, right?

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Also, the father sucks.
I don't care.

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Like you still made that
decision.

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I don't care that you came back.
I'm glad all of you got killed

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because you all.
Suck agreed.

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But I that was a part that I did
like, yeah, I I think.

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That was pretty brutal.
It sucks, yeah.

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I did like the sort of poetic
killing of him where the dragon

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just like presses her claw into
his chest so the armor pierces

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his heart.
So his heart is slowly breaking

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as he's dying on the floor,
possibly watching his daughter

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die as well.
Wow, I wonder if they meant

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that.
Listen, somebody's got to think

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of something.
How did what did you think about

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the cast?
Because we have Robin Wright,

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Angela Bassett, Millie Bobby
Brown.

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He had some very big actors than
this.

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I I How did you feel about them?
Well, you know them as actors

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obviously are very talented.
Was the material that deep?

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I don't think so.
Right.

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So when Angela Bassett appeared
on screen, I turned to you and I

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went, is that Angela Bassett?
Yeah.

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Like, is Angela Bassett in this
Netflix movie?

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Damsel.
Like, I didn't even know that.

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So that was like, really cool to
see.

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Robin Wright obviously is a
legend, but you know, it's base

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level evil, Evil Queen.
It's base level stepmother

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trying to win her stepdaughter's
affection, but I think that the

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cast as a whole was very
well-rounded and well put

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together.
Yeah, I think by the end of it,

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whenever she finally called her
mother, I was like, OK, that's

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why you guys kept calling her
stepmother the entire movie.

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I was like, you could just call
her by her name.

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Dear God.
Like, thanks stepmother.

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Hi, stepmother.
I'm like.

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Very formal back in Ye Olde
Dragon days.

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Way to, like, make sure she
knows.

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Yeah.
You're my stepmother.

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Thanks for dinner, stepmother.
I did think that we could have

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had a little more depth to the
Elodie and her sister storyline

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to see their connection.
That is probably where I thought

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the weakest point in this movie
was.

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They did a lot of these things
where the sisters would, like,

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be looking in the mirror
together and then they'd catch

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each other.
Ryan, just like, yeah, I mean.

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I think they had a short period
of time to make sure you saw

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that connection.
I think it was there, like, you

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could tell that she cared for
her and you could tell that she

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cared for her village.
But like that's the extent of

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what they wanted to show us.
I feel like they could have done

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a little more.
But why?

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You know, like if this is going
to be a one and done short quick

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movie, it's like.
OK, yeah, I so I guess I don't

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need more.
I just needed something

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different because all we really
saw was them hugging and

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giggling.
Together, she went back for her.

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Well, no, that is the TI mean
Again, yeet Part 2, he eats the

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sister over.
But so I do agree with that.

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But I think, like, leading up to
it, they could have given them

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something more like, I don't
know, talking about maybe when

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their mom died and how they came
together and really were able to

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only lean on each other.
You know, we didn't get that

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right.
Although I did think that that

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beginning scene of Millie Bobby
Brown chopping wood, I wrote in

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my notes, I said, oh, she really
cares for her sister.

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And then I wrote, Wow, Elodie's
really strong.

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Just chopping all the way.
Chopping all the way she.

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Was like Captain America
chopping, Yeah.

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Well, she if she started, like,
pulling them apart, I'm like,

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OK, OK.
But I appreciated that because

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then later on when she was like
running all over that, you know,

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cave and climbing up crystals, I
was like, OK, OK, well, we saw

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that she's very strong, right?
So that makes sense for this,

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that she could survive.
Yeah.

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I mean, she didn't need to prove
that she could do it.

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She could do it.
She's mainly Bobby Brown.

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She's mainly Bobby Brown.
She's getting burnt to the high

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heavens.
She could always do it.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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So good movie.
Yeah.

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Great time.
What did you think of the Magic

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Glow Worms?
They're fine.

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I mean, I I it makes sense for
the story, but it was clearly

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they had to bring something to
for her to heal the dragon.

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You know what?
I feel like the ending of it is

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what Game of Thrones should have
been like.

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This is the ending Daenerys
Targaryen deserved.

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She should have just, like,
killed the people she needed to

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kill and then, like, left.
Like, with my Dragons, I'm done.

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I did what I needed to do.
You guys suck so that they could

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have taken notes from that.
Yeah, this story.

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Yeah, I mean, it's fine.
They're glow worms that

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magically heal magical glow.
It's.

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Fine, I did enjoy them.
It's a fantasy element, you

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know.
So that's probably why, like,

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there's like, soft things that
happen.

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Like she either saw the ghost or
whatever, and maybe she didn't.

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She just was like pretending to
see them.

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I don't know, Maybe for like the
movie, we see what she's seeing

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because she sees the names just
for the weight of it.

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But we needed to see the faces
of these girls.

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Yes, to bring more weight to it.
That I agree with.

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I enjoyed the glow worms.
I thought they were great and I

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think that ultimately seeing
the, you know, royal family get

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their just desserts felt good.
I thought she was going to live

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in the castle though.
No, I don't know where she's

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going, I hope.
I mean, I guess she might be

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going back to her village to
like, spread the wealth and

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whatever.
She has dragon now, so that's

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cool.
Well, that was out.

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What I was wondering, right, so
she wants to travel the world, I

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think.
And the dragon was coming with

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her, right?
They make amends.

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It's quite lovely.
And I was like, now are Dragons

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like a regular thing in this
world?

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Are people not going to be super
frightened of this dragon?

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Probably.
I I just love the idea.

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She's like, OK, I'm going to
travel the world with my sister

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and my mother and my dragon and
like, fuck the village I came

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from.
I mean, it's girl power.

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Go help your village and then
go.

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Maybe they already got the
riches, maybe you know, they

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brought that in the quick turn
around time or something.

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But yeah, she's like, well look,
I almost died quite a few times.

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You guys are on your own.
All right.

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So wrapping up, what do you rate
this?

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I'm going to give this Are we
allowed to do quarter, quarter

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stars?
No, no.

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That's weird.
Then I'm going to give it a

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solid three stars.
Yeah, I give it three dragon

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eggs for the three children that
were lost.

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Roasted Literally.
Yeah, I mean, I I think it's a

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solid, fun, enjoyable movie.
It's all I needed.

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You know, I completely agree.
I think that you're right.

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It gave what it was giving.
Also, more Dragons.

451
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:45,720
I love Dragons.
I love stories with Dragons.

452
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,560
Give me all of those.
That's fine.

453
00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,080
I wouldn't.
Mind a second one, right then.

454
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,000
I don't know.
Maybe they travel around and.

455
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,960
Find more Dragons.
Find more Dragons and stop evil

456
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,680
ne'er do wells and things.
You know other evil Queens or

457
00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,760
something and.
Then they have to, you know.

458
00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:01,960
And then rebuild the dragon
population.

459
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,160
There you go.
That I like.

460
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,640
All right, well, let us know
what you thought of Damsel.

461
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,880
What's your favorite, you know,
Dragon Media?

462
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,000
Let us know.
I was going to say Dragon Movie,

463
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,840
but it's like, I mean, I guess I
could ask Dragon.

464
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,680
Property.
Yeah, Dragon Property Media,

465
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:21,600
whatever.
You know what?

466
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,560
Who's your favorite dragon?
Smog.

467
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,760
All right.
Till next time.

468
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:27,960
Bye, bye.