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screen unseen this week and something surprising.
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Yeah, so I saw the movie, it turned out to be movie Better Man.
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For those of you not quite sure what movie that is, that's the movie featuring a singing
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chimp and is like his backstory of becoming a like a pop star.
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It's also the true story of singer Robbie Williams who like me you probably never heard
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of unless you were into early 90 UK boy bands.
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But Robbie Williams has evidently sold over 80 million records worldwide and once I looked
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him up I did realize I didn't know one of his songs titled Angels which goes you know
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I know that life won't break me when I come to call she won't forsake me I'm loving Angels
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instead we all know it I don't need to sing it.
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It says scene.
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Well and I don't I don't want the copyright strike from YouTube or Twitch so no we're
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not why we're not playing the song.
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I don't need copyright strikes.
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Yeah.
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Um.
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But yeah it was actually a surprising I actually kind of enjoyed it it was interesting.
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It's not a movie that I probably would have went and saw to be completely honest it just
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wasn't didn't look like my thing.
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So yeah I thought it was a pretty good movie.
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Again that's that's one of the nice things about A-list and screen unseen is you will
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dump into stuff that you wouldn't normally see and I think that that's great.
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So here's what I want to know how do they connect the story of because I've seen the
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posters for Better Man at my local AMC.
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How do they connect this is a story about a chimp to this is the true story of singer
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Robbie Williams.
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So can you break that down because that like I've seen the posters for Better Man and nowhere
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in there would I be like oh this is the true story of how Robbie Williams became a pop
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star.
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Dude.
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Okay I guess like first question back at you do you know who Robbie Williams is.
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I do I do because I am a weird person who is sadly overly connected to pop culture for
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which I blame my mother.
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That's something to unpack for another time.
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Yeah fair enough.
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Yeah we will not culture shame anyone but to answer your question I think he kind of
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says like you know this is like my story of like and how like I view myself and he views
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himself as this kind of like kind of chimp.
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They don't really get into it a whole lot like in the beginning I didn't even know this
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was like a real person like I thought I was just a chimp and then at the very end of the
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movie like during the credits they took some of the scenes from the movie where there was
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a chimp and showed real pictures of Robbie Williams obviously not as a chimp and then
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I was like wait what is this a real person.
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My wife was like yeah Robbie Williams and I'm like who the hell is Robbie Williams and
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then like of course like she goes to the restroom after the after the movie and I'm like typing
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like Robbie Robbie Williams who the hell is this.
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Yeah so they don't like really explain that I think it's kind of like a artistic kind of
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touch you could probably get into psychology a little bit there.
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Robbie Williams does struggle or he did struggle a lot like most young entertainers with like
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for instance like who he is really why does he do the things that he does suicide stuff
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like that because he started at the age of 15 he started at the age of 15 and according
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to the movie they the group that he was a part of I forgot what it's called take that
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or something anyways the little boy band that he started off with they were playing at gay
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sex clubs when he was 15.
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Wow yeah and he he was so desperate to try to be someone else be someone better like
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he wanted to become a star because he kind of thought like his life kind of sucked so
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he was willing to be whoever people needed him to be which obviously led down a very
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sad story of drug abuse suicide things they get into like his marriage the the baby that
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they had blah blah blah all that kind of stuff.
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I don't want to spoil the entire thing but also it's a it's a biopic so I don't know
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um yeah it was it was it was a very interesting movie is very shocking it was it was way better
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than I thought it was going to be.
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All right so there you go folks go check out better man again I've seen the posters but
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had no context to what the hell it was supposed to be so none of them it must have just come
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out let's take a look.
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See how it's doing in the box office so far.
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Made a couple of bucks.
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So it yeah it just came out um obviously the place that is doing the best is the United
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Kingdom which if Robbie Williams is a big British pop star you know for them I mean
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that makes the most sense um it hasn't done phenomenal but oh wow it's only made a hundred
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thousand in the US.
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Well I think I think it's a little weird because I think they've like opened it to very small
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locations um because I'm showing that it's supposed to open up everywhere according to
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IMDB it looks like January 17.
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So I wonder if those are just previews and stuff weird yeah I don't know again I'm I've
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seen the posters had no idea what it was about if I get some time I might go might go take
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a look at it um because that's pretty interesting um yeah so there you go folks have you seen
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better man based on what we're telling you are you thinking that might be fun to watch
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now let us know down in the comments below.