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The beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year

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ten thousand and one ninety one.
In this time, the most precious substance

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in the universe is the spice milange. The spice extends life. The spice

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exists on only one planet in the
entire universe. The planet is a Racus,

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also known as Dune. You are
allowed to enter a world, are

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they unexpected? Many dangers exist on
a rakis the unknown and incredible secret and

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kept on this planet in the own
and the unbelievable feat the Spicy, two

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great houses where kingdoms are built of
far eers that moves, but we have

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wordside the likes of which even God
has never seen, and skies are filled

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with fire that promising between cleanse the
universe to bring us all to the darkness.

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We're a young warriors called upon to
freest people. A world that holds

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creation's greatest treasure. He who controls
the Spice con draws the university and greatest

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terrors. A world where the Mighty
this is genocide, the deliberate and systematic

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destruction of all life. Anaracists,
the bad Highway in town, I Love

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you forever, and the magical fathers, Oh, we'll have their final battle.

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Do not show the slightest busy honor
sat ever we talk for you.

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Do a spectacular journey through the wonders
of space and the mysteries of time,

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off from the boundaries of the incredible
to the borders of the impossible. Now

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Frank Herbert's wild and talked about and
cherished masterpiece comes to the screen Demo deal

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and dispresents doom the world beyond your
experience, beyond your imagination. Films have

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long since been adapted from novels.
In early cinema, this was done as

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a way to develop a script with
minimal creative input and just use the words

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from the novel to generate the film. Now, it does still take great

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performances in brilliant direction to make a
film truly memorable. As a matter of

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fact, some of the greatest films
were adapted from novels or short stories,

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films such as The Godfather, The
Graduate, Gone with the Wind, in

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many others. This Week's film is
not one of those films, but has

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become revered or in some people's opinions, notorious, based off the nineteen sixty

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five novel of the same name by
Frank Herbert. Doom was released in nineteen

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eighty four and was directed by David
Lynch. It stars Kyle McLaughlin as Paula

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Trades, the son of Duca Trades, who is the leader of the most

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respected house or group in the galaxy. These houses are seeking to control the

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most valuable asset known as Spice,
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The film also stars Patrick Stewart,
Max von Siddo, Sean Young,

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and the singer Sting as the villainous
fade Ratha from the Atradees' chief rivals house

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Harkonen. This film was quite the
trial to see the big screen. It

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went through several directors in studios from
nineteen seventy to the time Lynch signed on

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Our first two clips are from the
writer and director from The Today Show in

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nineteen eighty four. Frank Herbert explains
his approach in writing Dune and stories in

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general, and then the director Lynch
explains why he doesn't view Dune as one

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of his films. As a matter
of fact, he has not spoken at

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great length about the film and to
this day does not acknowledge it as a

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part of his filmography. Is science
fiction really fiction or is it just the

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future waiting to happen? Author Frank
Herbert says it's a little bit of both.

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His books under the Dune title takes
us to a strange planet where life

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and death is determined by a spice
which is carefully dulled out by a leader

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who is a humanoid, and the
process of becoming a worm. Now,

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now, before I ask you about
the statement of that, Frank, why

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is there a tendency for people to
chuckle when they hear what I just said

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to sneer to smirk. Well,
I think it it makes people uncomfortable the

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idea that a human being can become
something other than a human being, especially

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something mindless out of the depths.
I'm very heavily imbued with Hungian psychology,

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so I think that we do have
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depths of all but science fiction.
When people say science fiction, they automatically

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go, ah, yeah, But
I write science fiction for people who don't

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read science fiction, and people who
read science fiction also. But you were

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just telling me that you were going
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But you were, frankly a little
bit surprised when it went over as big

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as it did. Why well,
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You go on to do another story, and then when it happened, it

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happened big, and I was very
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You've said science fiction writing can have
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that for me a little bit?
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be entertaining, because if it's not
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I put a pot of message in
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the message? What is the statement
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trust leaders to always be right?
I work to create a leader in this

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book who would be really an attractive, charismatic person for all the good reasons,

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not for any bad reasons. Then
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decisions. Some of his decisions made
for millions of people, millions upon millions

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of people, don't work out too
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a specific one about Lato and about
planet Oracus, but in a very general

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sense. Do you make this statement
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viewing the future, are preparing for
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Our society was formed on a distrust
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lost that distrust of government. I
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president in recent years has been Richard
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What is it that government is a
shared illusion? When the myth dies,

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the myth disappears. That's right.
Religion, government, other institutions.

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Do you see them in any way
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the future. No, I have
a very passionate concern for posterity, another

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thing upon which this nation was founded
with a decent concern for posterity, and

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unfortunately, posterity doesn't vote. Dune
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movie. That's right that Frank Herbert
has written the screenplay for. We do

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expect another Star Wars type spectacle.
I really am expecting much more of a

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David Lynch movie. David has really
written the screenplay. I hope he's using

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a lot of the stuff that I
gave him, and but I haven't seen

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the screenplay. It'll be ready next
Friday. We are expecting the movie in

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a year, at the end of
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come at least more good enough.
Frank Herbert, thank you, Thank you,

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Brad, and now Lynch, I
can ask you why you consider Dune

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a disappointment? Dune. I didn't
have final cut on It's the only film

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I've made that I didn't have.
I didn't technically have final cut on The

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Elephant Man, but mel Brooks gave
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I started selling out, even in
the script phase, knowing I didn't have

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final cut, and I sold out. So it was it was a slow

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dying the death and a terrible,
terrible experience. Do you regret making Yes,

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except it just nailed this idea,
never ever do a film without final

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cut, and and why would I
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it happened. I trusted that it
would work out, but it was very

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naive and the wrong move. It's
got a lot of fans. There's some

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things about it, but overall it
was squeezed because in those days, the

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maximum length they figured I could have
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that's what the film is, so
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a day, and so it's again
money talking and not for the film at

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all, and so it was like
compacted and it hurt it. It hurt

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it. Everyone's been just been told
for years about your version of it,

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which do no, it doesn't exist. There is no other version. There's

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more stuff, but even that is
putrefied. This film, upon release was

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critically panned. One of the major
reasons is people felt the film made no

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sense. However, that does not
mean there are not memorable scenes our next

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in final two clips of this review
feature paula Trade's played by once again Kyle

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McLoughlin. First, one of the
most memorable scenes in the film, Paul

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is tested by mother Jessica for impulse
control by tapping into his fear, and

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then, in knife battle training with
Gurney Halleck played by Patrick Stewart, Paul's

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impulsivity becomes an issue when a move
would have ended his life. Please note

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that in the second clip there is
noise distortion done due to battleshields surrounding both

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a Trade and Gurney that are a
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she's using the voice no sound strength
surprising. Do you see this? Put

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your right hand in the box.
What's in the box and stop. Put

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your hand in the box. I
hold at your neck the gomjaba. This

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one kills only animals. Are you
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Let us say I suggest you may
be human. Your awareness may be powerful

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enough to control your instincts. Your
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the box. If you do so, you die. You will feel an

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itching the now. The itching becomes
burning, heat upon heat upon heat,

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and silence silence. I must not
fear. Here is the mind killer.

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There's a little totally brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I'm

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permitted to burst over me and for
me. I must not feel flesh,

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might feel my streams. Death brings
the total obliteration. I will face my

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flesh, not being the father.
Here is the little death. I must

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love hear here it's a little death. Good enough God, no woman child

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ever with stood. Take your hand
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young human, Do it next?
Nice training. I know too far.

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I'm sitting with my back to the
door. I heard you doctor Huie

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and Gurney coming down the hall.
Those sounds could be imitated. I'd know

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the difference. Yes, perhaps he
would have that. My father sent you

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to test me. Music, then
no music. I'm packing this from the

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crossing. She will practice, she
will practice. Gurney, we had practice

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this morning. I'm not in the
mood. Not in the mood. Mood's

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a thing for cattle and love,
playing, not fighting. I'm sorry,

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Gurnie, not sorry enough. What's
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God yourself to true God. The
slow blade penetrates the shield bat time,

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look down. We'd have joined each
other in depth. You've been seemed

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finally to get the moment. This
film was made on a forty two million

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dollar budget. Due to lynches success
with films eraser Head and The Elephant Man,

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the press heavily followed production. It
was set up for a summer blockbuster

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release. There was a documentary of
the making of the film produced in action

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figures, board games, and other
memorabilia of the like were released. Unfortunately,

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the film only made close to thirty
one million dollars, becoming a major

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box office flop. The play in
sequels Brian Herbert wrote six books in the

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series were canceled. Roger Ebert called
the film a real mess, an incomprehensible,

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ugly unstructured, pointless excursion into the
murkier realms of one of the most

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confusing screenplays of all time. With
only a runtime of one hundred and thirty

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seven minutes, Lynch had to cut
characters in scenes that made the book work

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and made it understandable. It also
led to it becoming a New York Times

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bestseller. Lynch also lost final cut, as was alluded to in an earlier

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clip. This is why David Lynch
ultimately disavows this film. Adding to the

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confusion, theaters handed out pamphlets that
went over deciphering the words used in the

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film as a translation guide. All
of this contributed to one of the biggest

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box office flops of all time.
Thankfully, through two new adaptations, a

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two thousand Sci Fi Channel mini series
and the two part epic film, which

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the second part is released this weekend
in more widespread appeal of the novels have

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led to a greater appreciation for this
film and achieving monumental cult status. This

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film is visually stunning, with good
performance as in a thundering soundtrack by rock

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band Toto, and for those interested, sting in Espedo not my cup of

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tea, but might be for some
people to not understand this film is no

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reason to dismiss it in viewing.
Doune, ignore the understanding and just enjoy

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yourself. I hope you join me
next week as we look at the Southern

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classic and one of John Hopwood's favorite
films, Smoky in the Bandit for WMNH

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and Matt Connorton Unleashed. This has
been a classic film review with Eric pilcher Da