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Someone called like"},{"startTime":1716.675,"endTime":1721.859,"body":"a Ablawtan or something. And the Ablawtan's"},{"startTime":1716.675,"endTime":1721.859,"body":"got like a big seagull head or something. Hey,"},{"startTime":1722.039,"endTime":1726.744,"body":"Ablawtan had quite a tough upbringing on the"},{"startTime":1722.039,"endTime":1726.744,"body":"planet Plen. That would be good, but they never"},{"startTime":1726.784,"endTime":1730.727,"body":"talk about their upbringing, so you don't give"},{"startTime":1726.784,"endTime":1730.727,"body":"a shit about them. And then it's always like"},{"startTime":1731.027,"endTime":1736.973,"body":"a resistance against some, and you're just like,"},{"startTime":1731.027,"endTime":1736.973,"body":"Star Wars did this. Star Wars did this. In"},{"startTime":1737.013,"endTime":1742.866,"body":"this trailer, there's people dressed as Nazis,"},{"startTime":1737.013,"endTime":1742.866,"body":"effectively. Yeah. And it's just like... 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And then it just sort of petered"},{"startTime":4324.389,"endTime":4330.853,"body":"out. I don't want to say, I enjoyed every second."},{"startTime":4330.993,"endTime":4336.857,"body":"I was not bored in the... There's two main pro-"},{"startTime":4330.993,"endTime":4336.857,"body":"like, I think a movie is bad for me if it's"},{"startTime":4337.438,"endTime":4343.039,"body":"A boring or B pretentious. And it was neither"},{"startTime":4337.438,"endTime":4343.039,"body":"of those things. I just remember a guy gets"},{"startTime":4343.059,"endTime":4350.501,"body":"his hand cut off in this film. In quite a graphic"},{"startTime":4343.059,"endTime":4350.501,"body":"and unpleasant and unexpected way. My question"},{"startTime":4350.522,"endTime":4353.802,"body":"there was like, wouldn't you just, that's like"},{"startTime":4350.522,"endTime":4353.802,"body":"cutting your wrist though, wouldn't he just"},{"startTime":4354.383,"endTime":4358.204,"body":"bleed out instantly? I don't know. But I've"},{"startTime":4354.383,"endTime":4358.204,"body":"never cut off a man's hand. Have you not? So"},{"startTime":4358.224,"endTime":4364.514,"body":"I don't know. Oh you must. You must. You simply"},{"startTime":4358.224,"endTime":4364.514,"body":"must, darling. You simply must. Yeah, I 100%"},{"startTime":4364.954,"endTime":4370.557,"body":"agree with you. I wasn't bored. It was an enjoyable"},{"startTime":4364.954,"endTime":4370.557,"body":"two hours in the cinema. With the other middle-aged"},{"startTime":4370.597,"endTime":4376.14,"body":"men. With the four other... It is a dad movie,"},{"startTime":4370.597,"endTime":4376.14,"body":"isn't it? It's such a dad movie. But I think"},{"startTime":4376.16,"endTime":4381.523,"body":"to call it a dad movie is to almost do it a"},{"startTime":4376.16,"endTime":4381.523,"body":"disservice because it's sort of above a dad"},{"startTime":4381.583,"endTime":4388.567,"body":"movie. There's a lot of Liam Neeson movies of"},{"startTime":4381.583,"endTime":4388.567,"body":"late that post taken are like, this is not"},{"startTime":4388.667,"endTime":4394.862,"body":"good enough, really. Whereas this one is a cut"},{"startTime":4388.667,"endTime":4394.862,"body":"above that, I would say. No disrespect to Neeson,"},{"startTime":4395.422,"endTime":4403.406,"body":"but the combo of Denzel acting great, Fuqua"},{"startTime":4395.422,"endTime":4403.406,"body":"directing in a solid, solid way. All these"},{"startTime":4403.446,"endTime":4408.748,"body":"movies are put together solidly. There's no"},{"startTime":4403.446,"endTime":4408.748,"body":"stuff really that makes me go, what? Why? Apart"},{"startTime":4408.768,"endTime":4415.831,"body":"from the weird Holocaust survivor side mission,"},{"startTime":4408.768,"endTime":4415.831,"body":"which just seems oddly unnecessary. You know,"},{"startTime":4416.171,"endTime":4420.933,"body":"the whole Dakota Fanning sort of side mission."},{"startTime":4416.171,"endTime":4420.933,"body":"We haven't even really talked about, like,"},{"startTime":4420.973,"endTime":4427.052,"body":"did they just get Dakota Fanning? So the people"},{"startTime":4420.973,"endTime":4427.052,"body":"would go, oh, from Man on Fire, reunited, all"},{"startTime":4427.072,"endTime":4431.996,"body":"grows up. I think so. And then they sort of"},{"startTime":4427.072,"endTime":4431.996,"body":"put a little bow on it on the end that when"},{"startTime":4432.076,"endTime":4437.84,"body":"I watched it, I was like, oh, right. And then"},{"startTime":4432.076,"endTime":4437.84,"body":"having rewatched the second one, I was like,"},{"startTime":4437.96,"endTime":4445.665,"body":"okay, that makes more sense. The sort of reasoning"},{"startTime":4437.96,"endTime":4445.665,"body":"behind his getting her. But you don't need"},{"startTime":4445.745,"endTime":4452.249,"body":"it. It's like in a western, you just want the"},{"startTime":4445.745,"endTime":4452.249,"body":"cowboy to shoot the... That cowboy's with black"},{"startTime":4452.269,"endTime":4458.063,"body":"hats. Yeah, that's it. You don't need that."},{"startTime":4452.269,"endTime":4458.063,"body":"You don't need any of it. But, I mean, it was"},{"startTime":4458.343,"endTime":4463.144,"body":"fine in Dakota Fanning's good and like... Do"},{"startTime":4458.343,"endTime":4463.144,"body":"you think he's still gonna keep living in the"},{"startTime":4463.304,"endTime":4469.486,"body":"town? Or is he gonna move on? Yeah. Because"},{"startTime":4463.304,"endTime":4469.486,"body":"someone gave him a lemon. An old lady gave"},{"startTime":4469.526,"endTime":4474.827,"body":"him a lemon. That's true. They're making, they're"},{"startTime":4469.526,"endTime":4474.827,"body":"gonna, they're thinking about making a prequel."},{"startTime":4475.167,"endTime":4478.788,"body":"That's what they're thinking about doing with"},{"startTime":4475.167,"endTime":4478.788,"body":"a younger actor. Interesting."},{"startTime":4482.858,"endTime":4490.941,"body":"Michael Jordan. Michael... B. Jordan. Uh, that's"},{"startTime":4482.858,"endTime":4490.941,"body":"the next, they think, is gonna... Yeah. That's"},{"startTime":4490.961,"endTime":4494.882,"body":"what they do, isn't it? John Wick. He's sort"},{"startTime":4490.961,"endTime":4494.882,"body":"of getting too old now, but prequel it up,"},{"startTime":4494.922,"endTime":4501.985,"body":"mate. Yeah. Ke Qing. I mean, like I said, I"},{"startTime":4494.922,"endTime":4501.985,"body":"wouldn't be mad if there was one of these movies"},{"startTime":4502.025,"endTime":4505.667,"body":"every couple of years, cause they're a joy to"},{"startTime":4502.025,"endTime":4505.667,"body":"watch. Oh, 100%. You know, two years time,"},{"startTime":4505.907,"endTime":4511.469,"body":"he's in, probably, Shanghai with 20 production"},{"startTime":4505.907,"endTime":4511.469,"body":"company names before the movie. And then he's..."},{"startTime":4511.529,"endTime":4516.539,"body":"Yeah. Get that sweet Chinese box office. And"},{"startTime":4511.529,"endTime":4516.539,"body":"I'll watch him. I'll watch him do it. ALICE"},{"startTime":4516.559,"endTime":4521.021,"body":"I'll watch him. Yeah. Very enjoyable. ROBB I"},{"startTime":4516.559,"endTime":4521.021,"body":"think it's a fitting end, and it would be nice"},{"startTime":4522.001,"endTime":4528.504,"body":"if this, I think, was the end of the Denzel"},{"startTime":4522.001,"endTime":4528.504,"body":"equalizer run. I wouldn't be mad at that. I"},{"startTime":4528.544,"endTime":4538.288,"body":"think it does exactly what it says on the paint"},{"startTime":4528.544,"endTime":4538.288,"body":"tin that falls down to pull a man up by barbed"},{"startTime":4538.328,"endTime":4547.183,"body":"wire in a B\u0026Q in Boston. And that red paint"},{"startTime":4538.328,"endTime":4547.183,"body":"is just his gore. It is surprisingly gory actually"},{"startTime":4547.223,"endTime":4552.044,"body":"for a, for action movie. It does lean into that."},{"startTime":4547.223,"endTime":4552.044,"body":"I think especially, uh, in this one, very funny,"},{"startTime":4552.144,"endTime":4557.286,"body":"all of them, all of them, very, very detailed"},{"startTime":4552.144,"endTime":4557.286,"body":"close up detail of things. Yeah. They, they"},{"startTime":4557.306,"endTime":4563.147,"body":"go for it. All right. I think we've pretty much"},{"startTime":4557.306,"endTime":4563.147,"body":"covered everything there is to say about all"},{"startTime":4563.227,"endTime":4568.709,"body":"three equalizers. You got, you got two bonus"},{"startTime":4563.227,"endTime":4568.709,"body":"equalizers. Chris, thanks so much for joining"},{"startTime":4568.769,"endTime":4574.632,"body":"us. I hope you will come back. later in the"},{"startTime":4568.769,"endTime":4574.632,"body":"season and chat about some other random movie"},{"startTime":4574.652,"endTime":4578.894,"body":"and I'll pick something really, really left"},{"startTime":4574.652,"endTime":4578.894,"body":"field and obscure next time. What a treat."},{"startTime":4578.994,"endTime":4584.618,"body":"Yeah, absolutely. Love to. If people want to"},{"startTime":4578.994,"endTime":4584.618,"body":"find you on the internet, and they often do"},{"startTime":4584.658,"endTime":4588.96,"body":"these days, is there a place where they could"},{"startTime":4584.658,"endTime":4588.96,"body":"do that? I do have an Instagram handle, but"},{"startTime":4588.98,"endTime":4593.903,"body":"I don't know what it is. I've never on Instagram."},{"startTime":4588.98,"endTime":4593.903,"body":"No, don't worry about it. And that is basically"},{"startTime":4594.003,"endTime":4599.306,"body":"all you need to know about Chris Gow's online"},{"startTime":4594.003,"endTime":4599.306,"body":"presence is that... It does exist, but even"},{"startTime":4599.346,"endTime":4603.667,"body":"he doesn't have a login, so probably wouldn't"},{"startTime":4599.346,"endTime":4603.667,"body":"worry too much about it. Uh, see me on Letterbox."},{"startTime":4603.987,"endTime":4608.389,"body":"Find me on Letterbox. That'd be fun. That'd"},{"startTime":4603.987,"endTime":4608.389,"body":"be fun. I've never done, I've never, I dunno,"},{"startTime":4608.969,"endTime":4614.39,"body":"find me on Letterbox. Chris Gow. Yeah. I think"},{"startTime":4608.969,"endTime":4614.39,"body":"so, yeah. I'll put the link in the show notes."},{"startTime":4614.41,"endTime":4617.791,"body":"People can find you. That'd be fun. I love to"},{"startTime":4614.41,"endTime":4617.791,"body":"chat to people about it. That's nice, yeah."},{"startTime":4617.891,"endTime":4622.453,"body":"And you are very, you post everything quite"},{"startTime":4617.891,"endTime":4622.453,"body":"religiously on there, right? I only do it for"},{"startTime":4622.493,"endTime":4626.118,"body":"me. I'm not doing it for any other purpose."},{"startTime":4622.493,"endTime":4626.118,"body":"Just so I'm trying to remember. when you watch"},{"startTime":4626.198,"endTime":4631.263,"body":"a movie a day, it does blur a little bit. Well,"},{"startTime":4626.198,"endTime":4631.263,"body":"bad luck. You've said it out loud on the podcast"},{"startTime":4631.303,"endTime":4639.77,"body":"that has literally listeners. So, we are gonna"},{"startTime":4631.303,"endTime":4639.77,"body":"see how many- Plural. How many- Plural. That's"},{"startTime":4639.831,"endTime":4645.576,"body":"true. That is true. Alright, that wraps up another"},{"startTime":4639.831,"endTime":4645.576,"body":"episode of Dodge This. Action movies unleashed."},{"startTime":4645.616,"endTime":4651.881,"body":"Chris, thanks for joining us. Listener, we will"},{"startTime":4645.616,"endTime":4651.881,"body":"see you in a couple of weeks for the next time."},{"startTime":4652.274,"endTime":4656.705,"body":"We haven't got a new sign out for season two."},{"startTime":4652.274,"endTime":4656.705,"body":"Chris, any ideas on the fly? Like to put people"},{"startTime":4656.725,"endTime":4661.377,"body":"under pressure to come up with a good sign off?"},{"startTime":4656.725,"endTime":4661.377,"body":"What about Pyaow Pyaow? Pyaow Pyaow?"},{"startTime":4664.706,"endTime":4667.073,"body":"Yep, taken under advisement. See you next time!"}]}