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Speaker 3: Okay, if you get nothing else out of Death of
Speaker 3: a Unicorn, buy the extra insurance when you ran a
Speaker 3: car in case you hit a mythical creature. When you're
Speaker 3: on the road in the middle of nowhere with your
Speaker 3: snotty daughter on the way to do a job for
Speaker 3: a family of despicable rich people. I think I got
Speaker 3: all that right. Here's some of the trailer for Death
Speaker 3: of a Unicorn. It's a little long, but it lays
Speaker 3: out the situation pretty well. And I think I bleeped
Speaker 3: out the F bomb. Be ready anyway, foosh?
Speaker 5: Really, are you okay?
Speaker 4: It kind of felt like it was showing me something.
Speaker 5: I guess it's feeling. I don't think we're supposed to
Speaker 5: be here. The Leopolds donated this entire nature preserve, and
Speaker 5: they care about a lot of things, not just pharmaceutical.
Speaker 4: Fine, I will sit there and smile.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry what happened? You want from the airport or
Speaker 5: what it's perfect timing.
Speaker 3: I need you to act like everything is fine.
Speaker 5: Is there something in your car? A lot of species
Speaker 5: in this area are rare.
Speaker 3: What exactly are you saying this is?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 3: I think we know exactly what it is.
Speaker 5: Horse like mammalia with some sort of protrusial growth.
Speaker 4: It's a unicorn.
Speaker 5: I don't think I should be in in swim shorts
Speaker 5: for this moment. I don't think that we're supposed to
Speaker 5: have this. We need to study it. Whatever it is,
Speaker 5: it seems to be the cure for cancer. Cancer.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest one.
Speaker 6: An opportunity for greatness, for immortality.
Speaker 5: Have a big sorry, dad, Please, you're supposed to be
Speaker 5: We need to give the little one back. Okay, bad
Speaker 5: things will happen, your tuer, You do whatever I have
Speaker 5: you to take care of you. Few retreat in the
Speaker 5: face of opportunity. That horn was rather girth, So.
Speaker 3: That's just ended at girths Got that pay for the coverage?
Speaker 3: Do some doughnuts avoid the magic courses with the single
Speaker 3: huge horn? A Death of Unicorn is a horror comedy
Speaker 3: that manages to be both a little offbeat and pretty
Speaker 3: formulaic at the same time. Sort of a fun concept
Speaker 3: and a fun cast. Paul Ruds the dad. Jenna Ortega
Speaker 3: is the daughter, although honestly he looks young enough at
Speaker 3: fifty five that they are not immediately sure if they
Speaker 3: aren't a couple. Instead, Richard E. Grant is the dying
Speaker 3: patriarch of his family that's filthy rich from pharmaceuticals, so
Speaker 3: you know what their karma is going in And if
Speaker 3: you've never seen him in with Nail and I from
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty seven, the funniest drunken buddy lout comedy of
Speaker 3: all time, for God's sake, fix that. I know it's
Speaker 3: streaming on Max probably other places as well. Tayleone's his
Speaker 3: wife where she'd been. Will Poulter is their idiot, wasteful son.
Speaker 3: He played Adam Warlock in that last Guardians of the
Speaker 3: Galaxy movie. And the bald guy who played NoHo Hank
Speaker 3: in Barry is there put upon pardoning manservant Anthony Kerrigan's
Speaker 3: his name? What's the deal? Then the daughter bonds mystically
Speaker 3: with the whacked unicorn. Then the pharma ghoul family realizes
Speaker 3: you can harvest all the magical stuff from unicorns to inject,
Speaker 3: to drink to snort, possibly uses suppositories, and it does
Speaker 3: everything from clear up your complexion to clearing up your
Speaker 3: terminal cancer. And it turns out unicorns aren't cool with this.
Speaker 3: They don't stay dead, and they have extremely violent, pissed
Speaker 3: off unicorn friends, all while the father is trying to
Speaker 3: repair his relationship with his daughter. And those are your
Speaker 3: screenwriting one oh one basics. I want to put this
Speaker 3: right out there. I'm all for impaling the rich on
Speaker 3: unicorn horns. It's a no brainer, especially pharmaceutical rich. I
Speaker 3: think we'd all like to see the Sackler family get
Speaker 3: their just desserts from pretty much any mythical creature, maybe
Speaker 3: kicked by centaurs. There's an idea, now, don't you steal
Speaker 3: that killer centaurs. I like Paul Rudd. In fact, I
Speaker 3: think soon people who don't like Paul red will be
Speaker 3: held without charges at black sites overseas. But the pacing
Speaker 3: of this movie is a bit sluggish. The writing never
Speaker 3: lives up to the novelty of the premise, especially the
Speaker 3: dialogue with the rich. And there's never a second where
Speaker 3: you're not abundantly aware of the fakery of the horse monsters,
Speaker 3: whether it's a cgi one chasing someone down a hallway
Speaker 3: or a practical version of one lying down, and made
Speaker 3: me wonder, actually, if movie special effects are getting worse somehow,
Speaker 3: and when things really get going, the mad cap of
Speaker 3: it all just does not glue together. Sorry horses to
Speaker 3: the point where my mind was wandering and I started
Speaker 3: thinking about having to sweep up after some of these
Speaker 3: things in a parade. It's the first feature from the
Speaker 3: director and writer Alex Sharman, who's mainly been a producer
Speaker 3: up to now. He may be heading back to producing.
Speaker 3: It's hard to make horror comedies because a lot of
Speaker 3: the times they're just not enough of either. And I
Speaker 3: got to wonder what Sam Raimie could have done with
Speaker 3: something like this. Here's your pull quote publicist. Death of
Speaker 3: Unicorn doesn't need to be euthanized like a horse at
Speaker 3: Santa Anita, but it's a long way from being a
Speaker 3: perfect special once in a lifetime thing. You don't dare, miss,
Speaker 3: miss miss Also, I'm available for the Killer Centaur script. Mo,
Speaker 3: did you drop pictures of unicorns and rainbows? You're peachy?
Speaker 3: It's cool. I absolutely did. I knew it. I knew it,
Speaker 3: so listen. Last week, a weekend rather, I watched this
Speaker 3: great old comedy from the early eighties called Used Cars
Speaker 3: with Kurt Russell, and it made me wonder, when was
Speaker 3: the last time we saw a really great recent comedy.
Speaker 3: This wasn't it. That's all I got, MO, it's back
Speaker 3: to you. Well you didn't like the movie though, right, Uh,
Speaker 3: it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, but I
Speaker 3: can't really recommend it.
Speaker 4: Okay, you were You were nicer in your run A
Speaker 4: report than you were in your off air conversation. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was some blood. I was like, okay, he's going
Speaker 4: for the throat.
Speaker 3: That's I'm kind of confused.
Speaker 4: I'thing like, okay, did he like change his mind during
Speaker 4: break something?
Speaker 3: I think all I said to you was followed by
Speaker 3: a thumbs down. And this was just that's enough, that's enough.
Speaker 3: You pooped on it, and then you gave it a
Speaker 3: thumbs down. This was just an expansion of thumbs down.
Speaker 4: Okay, you made it seem like it was plausible, Like
Speaker 4: you know, your mileedge may vary. You may enjoy it,
Speaker 4: but it's not a code Brown.
Speaker 3: It's not a complete code brown. It's uh, some people
Speaker 3: do like it. But I get the impression from what
Speaker 3: I've seen that people are saying that these are people
Speaker 3: who haven't been to a lot of movies.
Speaker 6: I don't know, it's Mark, we can't go with a
Speaker 6: lot of people. I don't care about you. I care
Speaker 6: about you, I don't care about a lot of people.
Speaker 6: I don't want to hear about Oh what they say
Speaker 6: and people say no, what does Mark say? Well, if
Speaker 6: you were reading between the lines, Tuala, this was a
Speaker 6: mixed to negative recommendation.
Speaker 4: You see when we talked earlier, there was no mixed
Speaker 4: There was just thumbs down. His thumbs down. It wasn't
Speaker 4: like horizontal thumb First.
Speaker 3: Of all, let's be careful with that. The thumbs are copyrighted.
Speaker 3: And I don't want to get sued. Do you want
Speaker 3: to get sued? Look, okay, okay, we're not. We're not
Speaker 3: gonna hold you to the thumbs down. But when you
Speaker 3: poop on it, when you give it a straight verry,
Speaker 3: always a poop it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is followed by a thumbs by, by a
Speaker 6: thumb going down, that means that means it's going to trash.
Speaker 3: Basically. Basically, basically, I'm kind of confused. Man, Well, it's like, uh,
Speaker 3: sixty five percent trash? How's that trash is trash? But
Speaker 3: it still falls on it like the rotten tomatoes rule
Speaker 3: is like if it's under fifty percent or something like that,
Speaker 3: it's it's no go. But that would be a d Right, Well,
Speaker 3: we're not in school, no, Mark, Mark.
Speaker 5: Confused.
Speaker 1: Mark.
Speaker 6: If if there's trash, if there's trash in the trash
Speaker 6: can right next to you, right and it's halfway full,
Speaker 6: are you reaching your hand in there?
Speaker 3: Because frenzy is this going on right now?
Speaker 6: I need for this I need for this film to
Speaker 6: get a definitive either code brown or you know what's
Speaker 6: their great letter?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's more nuanced than that. To life you do swine?
Speaker 3: You called a swine.
Speaker 4: That seems like an insult, like one hundred percent trying to.
Speaker 3: Get trying to get clarity, where's the wine? If you
Speaker 3: want me to be absolutely clear about something that's very
Speaker 3: banal of you. I really I think we've beaten this
Speaker 3: dead unicorn to death. And then
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