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this is another film I saw that you did
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not it's what's inside that premiered at
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the Sundance Film Festival earlier this
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year in
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January it has now come to Netflix uh
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directed by Greg jardan the basic story
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is there a a pre-wedding celebration
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with a bunch of old friends and a
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mysterious friend that they haven't seen
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for years
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names Forbes named Forbes uh comes to
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attend this party they haven't seen him
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in a long time that a falling out with
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his friend he was still invited and
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shows up with a suitcase what's in the
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suitcase we meet our
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couples um the the couple that is
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featured is Cyrus and Shelby and they're
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having troubles in their relationship
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mainly uh Cyrus is uh more interested in
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porn than having sex with his
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girlfriend there's uh the couple that's
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going to get married and the other they
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all kind of blend together this movie
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reminded me the setup of bodies bodies
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bodies um when forb shows up with this
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suitcase they're going to play a party
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game what's in the
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suitcase um and to tell you about it the
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trailers don't give away exactly but I
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will have to get into minor spoilers to
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tell you about what happens otherwise
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it's hard to to discuss this film this
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device in the
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suitcase you connect to it everybody
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takes these little electrodes connects
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them to their Temple and what it allows
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you to do is for short period of
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time switch
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brains so you like a hard drive get
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switched into someone else's body you
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get to experience the world through
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another person's body for a certain
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amount of
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time and they play this like it's a fun
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party game uh I won't go into a lot of
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what happens in the third act but there
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is a precipitating event that happens
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about halfway through the film as we get
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to know these characters they think oh
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this is a goofy fun party game
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where an accident
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occurs where a couple
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dies and those bodies are dead and the
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minds that transferred into those bodies
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are dead and the people who are embodied
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in a different body can't go back to
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that body because that body is now
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deceased which creates a conundrum
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that escalates and escalates and I can't
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give away anything more I thought the
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concept for this movie is amazing what
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it was like just so weird the the
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problems I had with it and I was really
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looking forward to this because James
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morosini who is in the movie I love my
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dad uh which we reviewed and we
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interviewed him last year he uh he is
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the lead actor in this film even though
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I would describe it as an ensemble
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but um and he's kind of a shady guy uh
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it really I think it it's played more of
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a as a horror comedy sci-fi whereas it
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really the way I saw this concept and I
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don't want to like make a different
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movie in my head from the movie that was
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made by the director Greg Jordan but
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like the body horror aspect they it was
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a missed opportunity like what if a and
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there there is a moment where one guy
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trans his brain goes into trans what no
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there's one of the characters goes into
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a black character's body and like hey I
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should whip my dick out like a big dick
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joke it's kind of obvious and I thought
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kind of lame in my opinion but um the
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body horror aspect of a male going into
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a female's body or vice versa they could
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have played with that the body horror of
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like if I think if you and I switch
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bodies Allen I would be taller what's
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the world like from being tall I would
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my
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breath I'd be like wow did I have garlic
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earlier today you know like okay a weird
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thing to say but I'm just saying that
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this could have played with body horror
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it didn't it played with if they played
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more as a comedy but when you kill two
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of the characters and it's still
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lighthearted it didn't it it just it
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didn't land with me so I really love the
5:01
setup love the concept I'd almost like
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to see a sequel to it that takes the
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concept in a different
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direction but and it really comes I
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don't want to I'm not going to say the
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third act stuff that happens because it
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goes off in a direction I didn't see
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coming which I was for me not the most
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interesting idea you could do with this
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concept
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so but when you when two of the
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characters die and you've got the
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problem of the bodies and then the souls
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that were in those bodies that also
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cease to exist there's a conundrum of I
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can't go back to my body what body am I
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going to be left with so um in the end I
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I still give it a mild recommend because
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the cast is really good Britney ogrady
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who plays Shelby I thought was great uh
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other the the young cast really good
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young cast but in the end um just felt
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like missed opportunity to escalate it
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to more because when you find out part
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of the motivation for the body switching
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it's not all that interesting see I
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didn't totally ruin it but I had to get
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to midpoint spoilers so mild recommend
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it's on Netflix starting today and uh
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there you go there's even I did I did go
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to the premiere and film The Q&A which
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is on for members only in our Members
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Only video section check out the Q&A
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with the cast so it it failed to live up
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to its potential yes and and it was off
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tonally uh it was like it was trying to
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be more of a comedy when it really could
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have explored some of the dark dark the
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horror like if you switch into another
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person's body and body switching is like
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whatever it just was and also by the way
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these characters are all around the same
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age they're all partying kids that like
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are into Instagram the problem is the
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people are not that
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different I felt that the cast character
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development the character development
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was
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lackluster they weren't different enough
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of
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people to make a switch go oh well
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that's definitely this person because
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body switching is a genre of film in the
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80s and '90s there a bunch of movies
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that do that this does not do it
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well yeah at the beginning it sound like
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you were describing the white version of
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the
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blackening yes in a way
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yeah I know I'm kind of like you're
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describing when you describe the plot
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it's like I want to see this movie and
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then when you describe how good it is I
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don't want to see this movie well I
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still think it's worth seeing I think
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conceptually I would do a sequel it it
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it combines like bodies bodies bodies
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the cast which did not like that movie
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with kind of a um almost uh a talk to me
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in a way here's this party game let's
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play this party game and things go bad
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they go south quick um but I think the
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problem is the people are because
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they're same age they're all kind of
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very surface level they're all obsessed
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with social media validation uh
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Instagram it's very well directed I'll
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say yeah for a movie that was shot in 18
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days very well directed um they do do
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this thing because it gets I'll tell you
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this it gets very confusing of who's in
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what body so they take Polaroids of
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themselves and pin it to their their
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chest so you can see this is who is in
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this body and they play a guessing game
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of who's in what's
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body who's in whose body um but then you
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know things go arai in the middle I like
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I say a very mild recommendation great
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concept poorly executed well directed
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Good cast so a mixed bag but I can see
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why Netflix bought it and I can see why
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people at Sundance like the film so it's
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different yeah different good idea okay
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what
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