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So fun fact, we actually did this episode yesterday, but
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what happened, Kelvin.
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I forgot to press the record button. Hey, but it
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opens up opportunity for us to actually play around with,
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you know, new things like this, like this, so it's
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actually a blessing in disguise.
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Let's talk about it.
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Hello there, Clapperheads, and welcome to a brand new edition
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of Clapper Talks.
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I'm mcgrian and.
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And once again we shall be talking about the film
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good Boy. It's funny because yesterday I opened up the
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episode by going, oh.
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Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?
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But to do it again it would be weird.
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No no, no, no, no, yeah, bad boy, you're the worst
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kind of boy.
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But anyways, anywhere to talk about the movie good Boy.
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Which actually I do have to preface because I didn't
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do this yesterday. There's actually two films called good Boy,
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so I have to be specific. This is the one
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about the dog. The other one is starring Stephen Graham,
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which also looks like a slightly thriller horror type film. Okay,
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but this is a film that picked up a lot
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of news and steam quite a few months back when
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the first trailer came out and everyone lost their minds
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because they're like, please don't kill the doge.
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And I just want to add what Nick edited yesterday
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was this is basically Courage to Currently Dog real life
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versus of it.
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Yes, this is as close to a live action Courage
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to Currently Dog adaptation you can find. Like the first
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five minutes just looking at this dog alone, I'm like,
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this is like courage.
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I'm kind of liking this.
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And we're talking about the classic Cartoon Network character currently Dog,
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the Purple Dog, you know, with ural and mural and
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use this, yes, use this this, Yeah.
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Use this.
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So one thing that is interesting is the fact that,
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like I said, I really enjoyed it because it's like
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Courage the Cowardly Dog.
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It was fun, but.
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You didn't quite yeah, because I remember the first thing
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you told me is like, dude, it's so boring.
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It is boring. Uh, don't get me wrong. I like
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the story, I like where it when, I like what
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they're trying to explore, but the pacing of it for me,
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it wasn't. It's not a bad film, but it's just
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not my cup of tea.
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And I understand where you are coming from in terms
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of that slow pace. But that's where I feel it works,
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Like is very much a slow burn of a film,
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because actually, let's go to the back of the DVD
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because that will make a lot of sense. Let's let's
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go to what the synopsis of this film is as
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you look it up on the laptop. We did this yesterday,
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but we're still not as prepared as very people yesterday.
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All right, the backup box, right, good boy five? This
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one is the Dog one. Okay, A loyal dog moves
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to A loyal dog moves to a rural family home
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with his owner, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in
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the shadows. As the entities threatened his human companion, the
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brief part, must fight to protect the one he loves most.
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So you see, it's a very simple story, which is
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why I feel the slow burn works because that amplifies
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the eeriness of what could be a very short, boring story.
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Like it drags on, but in a good way.
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It's necessary because this film there are so many times
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where they're just empty shots, where it's just absolutely no
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music except the am beyond sounds. But that amplifies, like
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I said, again, the eeriness of it. Like that's one word.
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I know I keep repeating about this film.
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It's eerie and there are a lot of parts that
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kind of left you lingering, sitting there wondering what's going
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to happen next, because if I remember what I said yesterday,
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there's a lot of parts where you're just seeing it
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from the pew of yourper dog, and then most of
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the time you're just left there wondering, like, what's going
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to happen? Why is there a shaddwy figure behind? And
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then the jump scares and then everything else just kind
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of blends so naturally into the film because at the
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end of the day, you are seeing it from the
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point of vie op the dog, and if you're just
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seeing us looking at that side, it's because we have
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the film playing in the background and we see the dog,
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we see the movie, and you know it's just there
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in the background.
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I have no idea why this is Calvin's decision, but
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I'm just like it's immersive anyway.
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Speaking of those dark shadows, that is the the mat men. Yeah,
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that is what I think really sold the film to me,
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because that creeped me out so much as I was
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watching it that I had to stop watching it because
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I was watching it in my bedroom and my wife
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was asleep already, so all the lights were off.
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It was just the TV glow.
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And so when this dog kept looking at the corner
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of a shadow, we figure, I kept looking at my
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corner and I was like, is.
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There is there something there?
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I mean, and I just stood off the TV and
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where Nope. I went straight to my office and started
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playing WW.
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But all in all, when we talk about Good Boy,
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the question that is begging for people to answer is
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that you know that's the dog that what really happens
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in this film? Is it a good film because the
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dog here is the protagonist? Like we said yesterday, this
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is the second time it is somewhat unprecedented in the
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sense where the first one we talked about was Predator Badlands,
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where the predator was the protagonist. This one we're talking
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about Good Boy, where you're seeing life slash horror, slash
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death slash grief through the eyes of a very loyal dog.
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Yes, And I think that's again what makes it work
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because there's a lot of stereotypical horror. You have your conjurings,
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you have your Shinese, you have your Jordan Peel's like
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there's specific categories for all of this, but I feel
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like there are certain films that come about that break
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that norm. One of the other films that I can
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think of is a film called Presence, where it was
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told through the point of view of a ghost in
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the house.
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Yeah. The one is the house is haunted with the ghost. Yeah,
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but it's somewhat a harmless ghost because she's just there.
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Yes, And it's surprisingly emotional because you're watching this family
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and their struggles their arguments. You basically are like the
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fifth family member, silent family member. And then I mean,
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that's what you would do if you died. Hey, I
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know it, and I know and that's why I scare.
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I want to put a Calvin free barrier around my house.
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Come from you come from where you never play game,
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where you never played by too feud.
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First to.
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Anyways.
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So this feels like Presence and now films like this,
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which is very much away from the stereotypical horror. And
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I feel like that's what makes this film so unique
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and so must watch worthy.
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And another point that you mentioned up you know, first recording,
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is that it's very interesting to see the perspective because
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we don't see a lot of faces. We don't see
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a lot of human faces. Not not a lot of it.
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No, it feels like one of those old Cartoon Network cartoons.
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We always just saw the legs. Even now looking at
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the screen, we don't even see the face. The main
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point is this dog whose name is Indy.
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Here's a fun track for you. Yes, this took four
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hundred days to shoot.
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What four hundred days? I think shot? Like this is
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the first time I'm hearing.
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Here, mainly because I found out more information, Okay, mainly
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because the dog can only shoot for two hours a day.
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Oh that makes it? Did they only use one? They
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use multiple?
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They only used one, mistaken one dog?
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Which is what is it? Was it the director's dog?
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Yeah? Ben? Oh my god, be Leon break, Ben Leon
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brek Ben Leon Break then Lin Burgh.
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I guess I don't know.
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It's okay, Okay, So that makes sense why I took
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four hundred days. But I think it was worth it
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in the end, because this dog is an actor in
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its own right, and we're going to talk about that
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right after this break. So this dog, Indy, like I
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said before the break, if there was an Oscar category
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for dogs, he would win hands down. I've never met
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a dog or seen a dog with this much expression
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that you can actually hear the words in his head,
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like you can understand the nuances the intricacies of his
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I acting, And that's even difficult.
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For a human later correct, let alone a dog.
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There's this a review that I accidentally saw that kind
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of resonated with what I feel throughout this entire film
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with Indye itself. Yeah, and I'm just gonna read the
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first line, Okay, okay, and I quote, there's a rare
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kind of magic and cinema when an animal's gaze become
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the cameras conscious. Good Boy twenty twenty five pulls this
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off with an almost stubborn sincerity, And I one hundred
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percent agree with this because just looking at this, what
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James Gunn would have done this to make like a
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CGI raccoon or like a CGI eagle. But no, this
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is not CGI orsoever. And this is a real life
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dog that is quote unquote acting. I don't even know
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if it knows that it's acting.
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Like speaking of the CGI stuff again, that same argument
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that I always have of CGI versus practical effects. This
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is another reason why practical effects works, and having physical
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animals works as well because you connect so much more,
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you feel so much more for a real animal. Correct,
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And again that's what makes this whole film work. It
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lies solely on.
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This dog because.
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The dog is looking at him is just adorable.
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It's so damn cute, Like you cannot help but love
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this dog. And when things happen, you really are concerned.
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Oh yeah, especially especially in the what's the what's the
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term people use at the end of a film where
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epilog the prologue way, like the gunjun part, like the suspenseful,
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like the build up suspense part of this film. Yeah, bro,
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you the whole time, I'm just watching it, right, I
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was like, please don't let the dog die.
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Don't let the dog, please.
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Don't let I was borderline about to yell at my
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screen when I'm like, run, run, you dog.
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Run, I was like.
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And the fact that.
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The fact that the dogs are just they make you feel.
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Like you are the dog watching it from its perspective, Yes,
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and just taking care of your owner and making sure
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their owner just it's okay.
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Yes, And that's what makes it creepier because we all
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know the tail of like, oh, our animals can see
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things that we necessarily can't, and I think that adds
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another layer to the horror element of it, because we're
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now getting freaked out by looking at every other corner,
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wondering what could my animals see that I am not.
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Is there something in Hure that I can't see and
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will never know unless our pets really amplify, like, do
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there's something in that world?
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Because like we said yesterday on the on the first recording,
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it's just that we we know that animals can see
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things that we can't. They can see things in the
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spiritual realm. Again, I don't know if there is a
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science back or I don't know, but sometimes they can
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feel things that we can't feel.
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They can see things that we can't see.
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So this adds another layer to you know Good Boy
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for example, where you see a presence, you see your
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owner being haunted in a sense. I'm trying my best
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not to spoil, but you kind of get the premise.
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Of the film.
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Yeah, it's a fairly like it is very formulae in
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a sense, like stereotypical. There's a haunting things happen to
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the human and then you know big big better and
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then you know you know what happens in the end,
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but again because it's told from the perspective of a dog,
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that's what sick groundbreaking. Now, I know we said we're
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not going to go into spoilers, but one thing that
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I know we didn't talk about yesterday that I feel
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is quite important to talk about is that ending and
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the third act. So if you haven't seen Good Boy yet,
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come back to this after we're done, because I think
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you would also want to join in on this conversation
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about the end.
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blood and there's the big physical demoon and in coming
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out of the ground. It's a gets very bombastic, very quickly.
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novels and film adaptations that he kind of fumbles the
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third act always like it's something goes from zero to
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hundred very quickly at the end. Yeah, you finish like
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this post apocalyptic land, the rapture has come and all that,
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and it goes quite normal, and then the third act
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somebody turns into an electric Jesus and starts electricating people
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what this cancer and sickness looks like. That is haunting
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that creature was death all along, just haunting this guy,
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waiting for that time to come. Because yes, because right
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at the end, suddenly Indy runs in and the owner
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seems all normal again, and that's when we realize he
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death coming after him makes a lot of sense. That's
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what made it work for me, even though it came
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Indy had died because of that skill, and I'm like.
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dying or of the grandfather dying.
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absolutely I must watch. I feel it is going to
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be very divided. Some people may love it, some people.
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May hate it, but either way it.
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the idea and the attempt of doing a film from
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the perspective of a dog, and not only that a
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horror film, which is even harder.
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I want at one thing just on my end, because
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this is a very different pov Nick say that you know,
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you should go check it out. On my opinions, like,
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even if you don't watch this, you're not missing out.
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enjoy horror in jury, right, this leans towards more of
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a supernatural horror as well because there are a lot
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of there's a lot of unknowns in the film. This
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leaves you lingering and sweaty and just like shit, man,
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I'm just anxious because of the dog.
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Good Boy is on a pedestal of greatness.
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So I forgot.
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to bad lines. But reintroducing the clapper meter, where would
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we put this on the clapp of meter?
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Where would you put it? Six? Six? Like six? Okay?
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I would give it a solid eight, which we give
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it an average. We put it at a seven out
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of ten. Be okay, And yeah, it's a decent watch.
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It's out on digital for rental and purchase, not out
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on streaming just yet, so go and find it whichever
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way possible. And as always, you can check us out
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on social media Instagram, TikTok and of course YouTube at Clappercorn.
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This has been claper Talks as always. I'm Nickdorian and for.
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The second time on this specific episode, I've been a
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good boy. Keep watches the movies, catch up great
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So fun fact, we actually did this episode yesterday, but
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what happened, Kelvin.
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I forgot to press the record button. Hey, but it
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opens up opportunity for us to actually play around with,
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you know, new things like this, like this, so it's
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actually a blessing in disguise.
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Let's talk about it.
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Hello there, Clapperheads, and welcome to a brand new edition
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of Clapper Talks.
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I'm mcgrian and.
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And once again we shall be talking about the film
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good Boy. It's funny because yesterday I opened up the
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episode by going, oh.
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Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?
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But to do it again it would be weird.
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No no, no, no, no, yeah, bad boy, you're the worst
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kind of boy.
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But anyways, anywhere to talk about the movie good Boy.
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Which actually I do have to preface because I didn't
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do this yesterday. There's actually two films called good Boy,
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so I have to be specific. This is the one
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about the dog. The other one is starring Stephen Graham,
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which also looks like a slightly thriller horror type film. Okay,
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but this is a film that picked up a lot
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of news and steam quite a few months back when
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the first trailer came out and everyone lost their minds
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because they're like, please don't kill the doge.
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was this is basically Courage to Currently Dog real life
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versus of it.
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Yes, this is as close to a live action Courage
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to Currently Dog adaptation you can find. Like the first
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five minutes just looking at this dog alone, I'm like,
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this is like courage.
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I'm kind of liking this.
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the Purple Dog, you know, with ural and mural and
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use this, yes, use this this, Yeah.
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Use this.
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like I said, I really enjoyed it because it's like
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Courage the Cowardly Dog.
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It was fun, but.
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You didn't quite yeah, because I remember the first thing
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you told me is like, dude, it's so boring.
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It is boring. Uh, don't get me wrong. I like
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the story, I like where it when, I like what
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they're trying to explore, but the pacing of it for me,
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it wasn't. It's not a bad film, but it's just
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not my cup of tea.
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of that slow pace. But that's where I feel it works,
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Like is very much a slow burn of a film,
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because actually, let's go to the back of the DVD
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because that will make a lot of sense. Let's let's
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go to what the synopsis of this film is as
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you look it up on the laptop. We did this yesterday,
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but we're still not as prepared as very people yesterday.
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All right, the backup box, right, good boy five? This
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one is the Dog one. Okay, A loyal dog moves
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to A loyal dog moves to a rural family home
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with his owner, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in
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the shadows. As the entities threatened his human companion, the
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brief part, must fight to protect the one he loves most.
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why I feel the slow burn works because that amplifies
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the eeriness of what could be a very short, boring story.
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Like it drags on, but in a good way.
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where they're just empty shots, where it's just absolutely no
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music except the am beyond sounds. But that amplifies, like
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I said, again, the eeriness of it. Like that's one word.
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I know I keep repeating about this film.
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kind of left you lingering, sitting there wondering what's going
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from the pew of yourper dog, and then most of
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the time you're just left there wondering, like, what's going
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to happen? Why is there a shaddwy figure behind? And
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then the jump scares and then everything else just kind
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of blends so naturally into the film because at the
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end of the day, you are seeing it from the
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point of vie op the dog, and if you're just
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seeing us looking at that side, it's because we have
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the film playing in the background and we see the dog,
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we see the movie, and you know it's just there
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in the background.
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I have no idea why this is Calvin's decision, but
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that is what I think really sold the film to me,
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of a shadow, we figure, I kept looking at my
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corner and I was like, is.
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where Nope. I went straight to my office and started
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playing WW.
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But all in all, when we talk about Good Boy,
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the question that is begging for people to answer is
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that you know that's the dog that what really happens
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in this film? Is it a good film because the
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dog here is the protagonist? Like we said yesterday, this
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is the second time it is somewhat unprecedented in the
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sense where the first one we talked about was Predator Badlands,
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where the predator was the protagonist. This one we're talking
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about Good Boy, where you're seeing life slash horror, slash
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death slash grief through the eyes of a very loyal dog.
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because there's a lot of stereotypical horror. You have your conjurings,
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you have your Shinese, you have your Jordan Peel's like
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there's specific categories for all of this, but I feel
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like there are certain films that come about that break
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that norm. One of the other films that I can
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think of is a film called Presence, where it was
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told through the point of view of a ghost in
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the house.
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but it's somewhat a harmless ghost because she's just there.
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and their struggles their arguments. You basically are like the
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fifth family member, silent family member. And then I mean,
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that's what you would do if you died. Hey, I
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know it, and I know and that's why I scare.
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I want to put a Calvin free barrier around my house.
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Come from you come from where you never play game,
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where you never played by too feud.
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First to.
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which is very much away from the stereotypical horror. And
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and so must watch worthy.
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we don't see a lot of faces. We don't see
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a lot of human faces. Not not a lot of it.
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No, it feels like one of those old Cartoon Network cartoons.
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We always just saw the legs. Even now looking at
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the screen, we don't even see the face. The main
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point is this dog whose name is Indy.
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Here's a fun track for you. Yes, this took four
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hundred days to shoot.
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What four hundred days? I think shot? Like this is
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the first time I'm hearing.
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Here, mainly because I found out more information, Okay, mainly
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because the dog can only shoot for two hours a day.
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Oh that makes it? Did they only use one? They
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Which is what is it? Was it the director's dog?
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Yeah? Ben? Oh my god, be Leon break, Ben Leon
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brek Ben Leon Break then Lin Burgh.
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I guess I don't know.
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It's okay, Okay, So that makes sense why I took
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four hundred days. But I think it was worth it
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in the end, because this dog is an actor in
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its own right, and we're going to talk about that
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right after this break. So this dog, Indy, like I
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said before the break, if there was an Oscar category
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for dogs, he would win hands down. I've never met
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a dog or seen a dog with this much expression
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that you can actually hear the words in his head,
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like you can understand the nuances the intricacies of his
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I acting, And that's even difficult.
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For a human later correct, let alone a dog.
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There's this a review that I accidentally saw that kind
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of resonated with what I feel throughout this entire film
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with Indye itself. Yeah, and I'm just gonna read the
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first line, Okay, okay, and I quote, there's a rare
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kind of magic and cinema when an animal's gaze become
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the cameras conscious. Good Boy twenty twenty five pulls this
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off with an almost stubborn sincerity, And I one hundred
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percent agree with this because just looking at this, what
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James Gunn would have done this to make like a
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CGI raccoon or like a CGI eagle. But no, this
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is not CGI orsoever. And this is a real life
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dog that is quote unquote acting. I don't even know
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if it knows that it's acting.
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Like speaking of the CGI stuff again, that same argument
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that I always have of CGI versus practical effects. This
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is another reason why practical effects works, and having physical
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animals works as well because you connect so much more,
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you feel so much more for a real animal. Correct,
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lies solely on.
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This dog because.
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The dog is looking at him is just adorable.
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It's so damn cute, Like you cannot help but love
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this dog. And when things happen, you really are concerned.
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term people use at the end of a film where
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epilog the prologue way, like the gunjun part, like the suspenseful,
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like the build up suspense part of this film. Yeah, bro,
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you the whole time, I'm just watching it, right, I
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was like, please don't let the dog die.
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Don't let the dog, please.
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Don't let I was borderline about to yell at my
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screen when I'm like, run, run, you dog.
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Run, I was like.
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The fact that the dogs are just they make you feel.
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Like you are the dog watching it from its perspective, Yes,
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and just taking care of your owner and making sure
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their owner just it's okay.
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know the tail of like, oh, our animals can see
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things that we necessarily can't, and I think that adds
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another layer to the horror element of it, because we're
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now getting freaked out by looking at every other corner,
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wondering what could my animals see that I am not.
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Is there something in Hure that I can't see and
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will never know unless our pets really amplify, like, do
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there's something in that world?
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it's just that we we know that animals can see
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things that we can't. They can see things in the
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spiritual realm. Again, I don't know if there is a
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science back or I don't know, but sometimes they can
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feel things that we can't feel.
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They can see things that we can't see.
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for example, where you see a presence, you see your
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owner being haunted in a sense. I'm trying my best
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not to spoil, but you kind of get the premise.
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a sense, like stereotypical. There's a haunting things happen to
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the human and then you know big big better and
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then you know you know what happens in the end,
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but again because it's told from the perspective of a dog,
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that's what sick groundbreaking. Now, I know we said we're
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not going to go into spoilers, but one thing that
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is quite important to talk about is that ending and
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the third act. So if you haven't seen Good Boy yet,
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come back to this after we're done, because I think
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you would also want to join in on this conversation
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about the end.
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So the end, I feel that was.
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The We're gonna put a spoiler alert here.
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And after this it's spoilers filth.
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it like it came very abruptly, like that whole thing
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where suddenly you know, the owner is like spewing our
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blood and there's the big physical demoon and in coming
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out of the ground. It's a gets very bombastic, very quickly.
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king esque, because there's a common trait in Stephen king
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novels and film adaptations that he kind of fumbles the
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third act always like it's something goes from zero to
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hundred very quickly at the end. Yeah, you finish like
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The Stand. I think it was The Stand where it's
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this post apocalyptic land, the rapture has come and all that,
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and it goes quite normal, and then the third act
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somebody turns into an electric Jesus and starts electricating people
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and they're like, wait, what the fuck?
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Okay, this is how I see the ending of the film.
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Let's put it in a very realistic point of view
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and take ghost and spirits and monsters out of the picture.
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Yes, docs have.
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Been abinity to smell sickness and cancer. Yes, And throughout
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the entire film we know that the owner is you.
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Got lung cancer?
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I feel this is the interpretation of the dog of
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what this cancer and sickness looks like. That is haunting
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the owner.
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similar tangent. But what I envisioned the ending is that
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that creature was death all along, just haunting this guy,
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waiting for that time to come. Because yes, because right
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at the end, suddenly Indy runs in and the owner
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seems all normal again, and that's when we realize he
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is dead.
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Oh that's me.
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death coming after him makes a lot of sense. That's
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what made it work for me, even though it came
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out of left field, the sudden violence and God and whatnot.
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I know some people might have mixed feelings toward the ending,
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again because it comes very abruptly. I also thought that
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Indy had died because of that skill, and I'm like.
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dying or of the grandfather dying.
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So yeah, all in all, I think Good Boy is
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absolutely I must watch. I feel it is going to
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be very divided. Some people may love it, some people.
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May hate it, but either way it.
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Deserves a watch at least once, just purely based on
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the idea and the attempt of doing a film from
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the perspective of a dog, and not only that a
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horror film, which is even harder.
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So yeah, go and it's.
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I want at one thing just on my end, because
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this is a very different pov Nick say that you know,
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you should go check it out. On my opinions, like,
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even if you don't watch this, you're not missing out.
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But I'm coming from a perspective of someone who don't
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enjoy horror in jury, right, this leans towards more of
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a supernatural horror as well because there are a lot
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of there's a lot of unknowns in the film. This
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leaves you lingering and sweaty and just like shit, man,
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I'm just anxious because of the dog.
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On my point of view, I would say, even if
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you don't watch it, you're not missing out on much.
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But if you want to see truly like cinematic animal acting,
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Good Boy is on a pedestal of greatness.
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So I forgot.
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We also didn't do this in our previous episode prior
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to bad lines. But reintroducing the clapper meter, where would
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we put this on the clapp of meter?
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Where would you put it? Six? Six? Like six? Okay?
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I would give it a solid eight, which we give
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it an average. We put it at a seven out
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of ten. Be okay, And yeah, it's a decent watch.
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It's out on digital for rental and purchase, not out
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on streaming just yet, so go and find it whichever
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way possible. And as always, you can check us out
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on social media Instagram, TikTok and of course YouTube at Clappercorn.
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This has been claper Talks as always. I'm Nickdorian and for.
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The second time on this specific episode, I've been a
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good boy. Keep watches the movies, catch up great
