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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from

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<v Speaker 1>KFI A M six forty.

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<v Speaker 2>Nature Mark talks about pontificates about pop culture, Ron and

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<v Speaker 2>Report with Mark Ronner.

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<v Speaker 3>Caf I, YouTube and Instagram. It's Later with mo Kelly,

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<v Speaker 3>Mark Ronner Take it Away.

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<v Speaker 4>Final Destination Bloodlines is new in theaters. Let's start off

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<v Speaker 4>with a little bit of the trailer.

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<v Speaker 5>So which one of you is next? You found some

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<v Speaker 5>way to stop death and survivor? Duees take a life.

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<v Speaker 5>Look at the time that person had that you have

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<v Speaker 5>to die. Death is coming for our family, Parley. It's

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<v Speaker 5>Deephane a grandma. Death is coming for us because we

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<v Speaker 5>were never supposed to exist. All of this fits together.

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<v Speaker 5>We might have a chance.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, you don't have a chance. Let me spoil

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<v Speaker 4>it for you. Did you know there are six Final

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<v Speaker 4>Destination movies. I didn't because I cut my losses after

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<v Speaker 4>the first one back in the year two thousand. There

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<v Speaker 4>are also ten Final Destination novels and two comics. I

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<v Speaker 4>haven't read those either. That first movie was about high

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<v Speaker 4>school students who get kicked off a plane that later explodes.

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<v Speaker 4>They've cheated death. Death doesn't like getting ripped off like

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<v Speaker 4>he's at a check stand in a Kroger store. So

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<v Speaker 4>death comes after them, one by one, and fairly gruesomely.

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<v Speaker 4>If you've been following the headlines about our federal aviation

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<v Speaker 4>administration lately, that first movie might be a little bit

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<v Speaker 4>much at the moment. And no, there's no way I'm

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<v Speaker 4>going to run through the plots of the next four

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<v Speaker 4>Final Destination movies, because that would entail watching them. But

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<v Speaker 4>there are some ground rules for the Final Destination deaths

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<v Speaker 4>through all the movies, which you heard a bit of

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<v Speaker 4>in the trailer. People die one by one in the

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<v Speaker 4>order they would have if they hadn't cheated their deaths.

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<v Speaker 4>Like student alone borrowers, you thought you could get out

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<v Speaker 4>of this awful thing, think again. And if you die

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<v Speaker 4>and are resuscitated somehow, that can get you out of it.

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<v Speaker 4>Or if you take someone else's life, you can have

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<v Speaker 4>that person's lifespan. So aim for babies, I guess, although

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<v Speaker 4>that makes you a dirty, filthy murderer. Tony Todd plays

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<v Speaker 4>the mortician who explains these rules to each new group

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<v Speaker 4>of doomed young people. You heard him a little bit

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<v Speaker 4>in the trailer, and we get a kind of origin

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<v Speaker 4>for him. In this sixth movie, Final Destination Bloodlines. Todd

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<v Speaker 4>had cancer while filming essentially a cameo in this, and

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<v Speaker 4>he died in November. In Bloodlines, the young woman played

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<v Speaker 4>by Caitlin Santajana has nightmares about the collapse of a

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<v Speaker 4>building that really looks like the Space Needle back in

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<v Speaker 4>nineteen sixty three, but isn't now. I'm not an engineer,

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<v Speaker 4>but I'll just say the horrific lapse of this building

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<v Speaker 4>and all the deaths are hilarious, and I hope the

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<v Speaker 4>actual space needle isn't constructed like it's made of gingerbread

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<v Speaker 4>and wet toilet paper. I still have friends there without

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<v Speaker 4>spoiling much. I'll tell you that people saved from that.

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<v Speaker 4>Say it with me. Cheated death, cheated death, cheated death.

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<v Speaker 4>And it was back in nineteen sixty three, and the

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<v Speaker 4>survivors had families. None of the descendants should exist, that's right.

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<v Speaker 4>They're all death anchor babies and they gotta go. So

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<v Speaker 4>the girl with the nightmare premonitions as her hands full

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<v Speaker 4>get into the bottom. I can't believe it. The girls

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<v Speaker 4>got to figure all this out and try to keep

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<v Speaker 4>herself and her irritating family from dying in a variety

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<v Speaker 4>of gross out Rube goldbird deaths. It's some over the

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<v Speaker 4>top stuff, pretty sick, but it's all brief and intermittent.

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<v Speaker 4>And I have a theory the characters are also irritating

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<v Speaker 4>and unlikable that not only was I not the least

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<v Speaker 4>bit bothered by any of these gory deaths, I was

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<v Speaker 4>grateful that each of the characters would now shut the

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<v Speaker 4>hell up. Congratulations, filmmakers. I felt nothing when your characters die.

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<v Speaker 4>I now watch Dawn of the Dead from nineteen seventy eight.

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<v Speaker 4>Every death hurts, even when you expect it. Learn from this.

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<v Speaker 4>The only sad thing in Bloodlines is saying goodbye to

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<v Speaker 4>Tony Todd, who looks rough. He had cancer. You might

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<v Speaker 4>also remember him from Candy Man, the good One, not

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<v Speaker 4>the remake. One thing equal parts funny and irritating about

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<v Speaker 4>final destination Bloodlines is the girl with the premonitions gets

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<v Speaker 4>ultra paranoid and sees potential death and absolutely everything or

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<v Speaker 4>rake on the ground, everything which is a possibility in

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<v Speaker 4>the universe they set up, but also in this universe.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, I take the four to Zho five every day,

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<v Speaker 4>all right. I'm also the same age as my mom

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<v Speaker 4>when she died really young, and I'm older than my father,

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<v Speaker 4>who died even younger. I got some junk DNA. I

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<v Speaker 4>could go any time, maybe during the show. This pizza

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<v Speaker 4>could be my last meal. Also, do you remember the

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<v Speaker 4>House MD show with you Lori? I wrote several scripts

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<v Speaker 4>for a mobile game for that for NBC Universal, and

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<v Speaker 4>the game was never released. They abruptly shuttered the whole

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<v Speaker 4>department before I before I touched the keyboard to start

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<v Speaker 4>writing my my first script. I can't tell you how

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<v Speaker 4>many episodes of House I watched with all the medical mysteries,

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<v Speaker 4>maybe one hundred. And eventually, every time I felt so

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<v Speaker 4>much as a twine or I had a cough or

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<v Speaker 4>spotted anything that seemed remotely off, I started freaking out

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<v Speaker 4>and thinking I was dying. You would too. So what

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<v Speaker 4>I'm saying is I don't need these final destination movies

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<v Speaker 4>because they're not escapist fun. And I say this is

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<v Speaker 4>a big horror fan too. Now I'm in the minority

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<v Speaker 4>because this movie had an insane ninety three percent positive

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<v Speaker 4>rating on Rotten Tomatoes last time I checked, and it's

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<v Speaker 4>expected to be the eight hundred pound gorilla at the

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<v Speaker 4>box office this weekend too. Now you can believe those hacks,

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<v Speaker 4>or you can believe me. I need to explain to

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<v Speaker 4>you again that my fellow pro critics do not and

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<v Speaker 4>have never been into horror films. They've never gotten them

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<v Speaker 4>and generally looked down their noses at them because they'd

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<v Speaker 4>rather be watching something like a Nora or Amelia Perez.

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<v Speaker 4>You think John Carpenter got any respect from these typists

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<v Speaker 4>when his movies were actually in theaters. Uh huh. So

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<v Speaker 4>take that ninety three percent with a big ass grain

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<v Speaker 4>of salt which could get buried in your eyeball and

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<v Speaker 4>you to stumble into a wood shipper. It's a bloody

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<v Speaker 4>good time blow it out your tailpipe. These filmmakers confuse

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<v Speaker 4>drawing out something really obvious with tension, and that's all

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<v Speaker 4>sandwich between poorly written family drama to make you grateful

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<v Speaker 4>for a wake up death. Yes, I'm admitting I dozed

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<v Speaker 4>off briefly. Bloodlines is a nice looking movie. And if

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<v Speaker 4>you're on a date where you're not so much paying

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<v Speaker 4>attention between the elaborate, gross out deaths, I guess you're

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<v Speaker 4>sitting in the dark with somebody for a couple hours.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a passable movie for people who don't care about

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<v Speaker 4>movies and think they might be getting busy. But that's

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<v Speaker 4>not your pull quote. Here's your pull quote, publicists, Final

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<v Speaker 4>Destination bloodlines more like Final Destination. There's more mo but

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<v Speaker 4>I think you get the picture.

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<v Speaker 3>No, No, no rimshot for you for that one negative

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<v Speaker 3>on that.

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<v Speaker 4>No, Stephan wasn't even listening. I'm just letting you know

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<v Speaker 4>he wasn't listening. No, he never heard. He's completely checked

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<v Speaker 4>out and he might as well be sitting in a

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<v Speaker 4>theater watching Final Destination. Have you ever read oh novel

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<v Speaker 4>from nineteen thirty four called Appointment in Samara?

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<v Speaker 5>No, I have not.

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<v Speaker 4>It's by John O'Hara, very well known novel, and all

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<v Speaker 4>the deaths in this got me to thinking about that

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<v Speaker 4>because it was about the inescapability of our fates. And

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<v Speaker 4>I'm just going to read you a brief thing from O'Hara,

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<v Speaker 4>quoting Somerset mom. There was a merchant in Baghdad who

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<v Speaker 4>sent his servant to the market to buy for visions.

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<v Speaker 4>And in a little while the servant came back, white

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<v Speaker 4>and trembling and said, Master, just now. When I was

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<v Speaker 4>in the marketplace, I was jostled by a woman in

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<v Speaker 4>the crowd, and when I turned, I saw it was

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<v Speaker 4>death that jostled me. She looked at me and made

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<v Speaker 4>a threatening gesture. Now, lend me your horse, and I

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<v Speaker 4>will ride away from this city and avoid my fate.

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<v Speaker 4>I will go to Samara and their death will not

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<v Speaker 4>find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the

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<v Speaker 4>servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs and its flanks,

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<v Speaker 4>and as fast as the horse could gallop, he went.

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<v Speaker 4>Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he

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<v Speaker 4>saw me standing in the crowd, and he came to

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<v Speaker 4>me and said, why did you make a threatening gesture

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<v Speaker 4>to my servant when you saw him this morning? That

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<v Speaker 4>was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only

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<v Speaker 4>a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him

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<v Speaker 4>in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight

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<v Speaker 4>in Samara. Do you get it? You understand now how

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<v Speaker 4>this dumb Final Destination movie could have been good.

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<v Speaker 3>It could have been, but that's never the point. They're

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<v Speaker 3>not trying to write a good story. They're trying to

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<v Speaker 3>create something which will appeal to the twenty somethings who

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<v Speaker 3>want brainless entertainment.

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<v Speaker 4>It is totally brainless, except for the brains that get

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<v Speaker 4>splattered on the screen. Yeah, I could do without.

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<v Speaker 3>I could do without, But I do appreciate that they

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<v Speaker 3>actually have some backstory. When did Tony Todd start becoming

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<v Speaker 3>part of Final Destination the second or third movie?

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<v Speaker 4>I think he was in it from the start, I

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<v Speaker 4>believe if anybody, I don't remember him in the first movie.

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<v Speaker 4>I haven't seen it since it came out twenty five

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<v Speaker 4>years ago. My god, we're old. I'll look it up

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<v Speaker 4>on I cannot avoid our fate. We're close to death. Well,

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<v Speaker 4>we have more behind us than in front of us.

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<v Speaker 5>The math is the.

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<v Speaker 4>Math, and nobody gets away. Oh that's Cheerfully, I'd like

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<v Speaker 4>to end on a positive note.

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