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Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 2 3 4
by LimeGreenLegend- 4 followers
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The original Rate the Last Film you Watched thread got pretty full to bursting there, poor @omarcomin71 couldn't even open it, so I've locked that one and started a brand spanking new one. The original thread is still available to read here if you're ever looking for something to watch - Now, on to the reviews
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I am listening to my wife and an employee of ours discuss a soap opera that is on tv like it's real stuff. I need a bucket of sand to bury my head in.
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What can't you miss? What shows from the past did you love? It's walking dead for me
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I am a huge movie/ cinema fan. I scrolled through this forum of "off topic" and didn't find anything about movies. So I thought I would start my own. I thought this might be a great way to share amazing movies with each other or to divert others from wasting their time with a terrible film. It is also a great way to get a look into each crew members psyche buy which films they are a fan of. Rate the movie with a total of 5 - being the best movie you have ever seen in your lifetime, to a 1 - worst movie ever. *NO SPOILERS* Rate the film but leave the key details out for those who have not seen it but may now want to see it due to your recommendation. I guess I …
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The Clone Wars is back and so is Jedi Ahsoka Tano. As fans celebrate her return in this beloved animated series, they may have an even bigger moment to look forward to this year. According to Slashfilm, Tano will also appear in The Mandalorian's second season, which is slated to air on Disney+ this October. Since this is a live-action show, Tano will be brought to life by actress Rosario Dawson from Rent, Daredevil, and Eagle Eye fame. Dawson has long played along with fans requesting she be cast as Tano in a show. Now it appears to be happening. Tano was first brought to life in the animated series by actress Ashley Eckstein. Tell ‘em! #AhsokaLives https://t.co/n4d…
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With the Episode IX trailer dropping last week, the Mandalorian series on the horizon and the Jedi: Fallen Order on it’s way there is a lot to look forward too from the Galaxy far far away... whatever your thoughts on the influence of Disney.
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UFC
by omarcomin71- 1 reply
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After a quick search of our website I did not see a UFC thread. So, I thought I’d start one. 🙂 This made me happy… IMG_1060.mov
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Friday the 13th
by omarcomin71- 2 followers
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I can’t believe there hasn’t been a topic on the movie Friday the 13th. Only the greatest horror movie series of all time! I was only nine years old but clearly remember the trailer and when it was released in theaters. And that soundtrack, Creepy! Also my mom‘s reaction when she came back from viewing it. Scary stuff! The sequels would later get a bit silly but in the beginning it was quite different. @Con brought this to our attention that it’s the 40th anniversary of this classic slasher film.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2015: XDBX Showdown 1 2
by Fido_le_muet- 2 followers
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Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Building Bridges Yep, it's that time of year again! It's kind of a big thing here in Europe but for some reason, the hype never crossed the french border Anyway, I know a lot of us european will follow the results. To spice things up, I thought it could be fun to host some sort of competition among those of us who live in a country participating in the contest. I did the math and at least 40% of the crew lives in a participating country. First: some ground rules. Time and Date : Two semi-finals will take place on May 19th and May 21st. The final will take place on May 23rd at 9:00 pm GMT+2 (I think) Participati…
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Actual art?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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So since this is Arts and Entertainment forum, is anyone into actual art, stuff like Picasso, Van Gogh, da Vinci?? I am not and I do not get what makes some "works of art" worth so much, especially Picasso. Jesus fuck I feel like I could throw paint at the wall and come up with better art than he did. I have known a couple professional artists, and they are weird a bit. The oddest was a Canadian lady, very nice but had an odd way about her, and it really isn't anything I can just say this or that was odd about her, just a whole package thing. And to be honest I am bit disappointed in our crew Canadians, she was way more stereo typical than you lot …
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Must-See Documentaries
by Protocawl- 2 followers
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Most of the documentaries I'll be posting here are ones I feel basically every human being in the present day and age should see (especially the first one: HUMAN). If you were to ever only watch a handful of documentaries, then (some of) these should probably be on that list (will be adding more in the near future). If you were to ever only watch one documentary (series), it should definitely be "HUMAN". If you haven't seen any of these documentaries, then I highly recommend watching them. Some of these documentary films will be entirely available to watch here, others will have to be found elsewhere. Feel free to post any other documentaries that you …
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Guess The Movie Quote 1 2 3
by Banketelli- 3 followers
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Guess what movie the quote is from. Bonus point for naming the character. The member with the correct guess will post the next quote. Or give the opportunity to another member. The quote giver will confirm the correct answer. If a new quote hasn't been posted within 3 days, I'll post one to get things going again. A leaderboard will be kept to find RSC's ultimate film nerd. Guessing the movie gets you 2 point with an additional point for naming the character. Only the first member with the correct answer gets the points. If that member doesn't name the character and another member does before the answer is confirmed, the latter will get the bonus point. And…
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Lime's Book Reviews
by LimeGreenLegend- 2 followers
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I'll be posting short reviews of books I read here, mainly so I have somewhere to put down my thoughts. I've just finished my first book of 2019 so I'll start there. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (1938) Hale is a reporter who knows he is going to be murdered. He hangs out in the crowds of Brighton Pier for safety. There he meets Ida Arnold, a kind, caring woman who can see he's in trouble but doesn't know why. After being separated for only a moment he is killed by Pinkie, leader of a gang based around the racetrack, in revenge for the murder of his mentor. This happens within the first few pages and launches you off on a brutal tale of murder, obsess…
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Watching International TV Channels 1 2 3
by Con- 3 followers
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Here I watch tv channels from around the globe and share highlights with you all cause quarantine and stuff. Lets check in with the country of Oman...check this guys sword out. Final Fantasy size, and he is sitting down giving an interview: This was one of their Energy Drink commercial I think... Then I headed to Sweden and got this ad and i think its for companies that support XDBX and those that do not... On TV4 I got some information about the CoronaKrisen, it was very informative... One small observation @Lann, all the correspondents were …
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Upcoming Film Releases
by LimeGreenLegend- 3 followers
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Excited about an upcoming film? Why not post a trailer here?! Here's a selection of what I'm looking forward to over the next couple of months.
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RIP Enio Morricone
by djw180- 1 follower
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The composer Enio Moriconni had died (aged 91) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53305397 He was probably most famous for the scores spaghetti westerns. I remember him most for the Untouchables, The Mission and Cinema Parridisso. I can't imagine those films without his amazing scores. They really were as integral to the film as the actors and the plot. Truly one of the all time greats of cinema.
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Joker
by LimeGreenLegend- 1 follower
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Just saw the first trailer for the upcoming Joker film, and holy shit it looks amazing! It was gonna take a lot to take Heath Ledger's Joker off of the top of the pile but this looks like it could do it. I didn't know much about this film apart from the fact that Joaquin Phoenix is playing the joker, which is a good start. I did some research and the story was hugely inspired by The King of Comedy, one of my favourite films. Joker also stars Robert DeNiro as a talk show host, which is funny because in The King of Comedy he plays a comedian obsessed with a talk show host. Anyways, this is now one of my most anticipated films, just from this trailer.
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If you like RDR2 you will like this show
by pete_95973- 2 followers
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Even if you have never played RDR2 and don't want to, you will like this show. Three seasons on demand HBO/Amazon Prime. It did not get a proper ending but finally this year they are making a movie to wrap it up. I highly recommend. I just started my rewatch last night.
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Arty Stuff
by doubleg213- 1 follower
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Something that I am sure the likes of @Paulie @JuniorChubb may be interested in and I am sure a few others will be. Thought this might be somewhere to share things anybody is working on, be they hand drawn/painted or digital or somewhere just to share various arty things you may find and be interested in. First up from me, something I found via Behance, the guy does artwork by hand and then reworks them in Illustrator and/or Photoshop and does limited run prints of movie posters amongst other things. https://www.behance.net/Anzelmgabz The level of detail he gets is stunning.
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What Are You Reading? 1 2
by LimeGreenLegend- 2 followers
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Reading for me is my absolute favourite hobby, even more so than video games. So I thought I'd start a little place where we can all share what we're currently reading and maybe get some good recommendations Right now I'm about halfway through The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch and its really starting to get good. Like a lot of her books she cranks up tension over a situation for the first half or so of a book, than has a big breaking point to spur the second half on, and I just reached that point so things are getting pretty heated! Anyone else reading something particularly good at the minute, or just want to share your favourite books/authors?
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Bringing this playlist back to life. We all enjoy different stuff. If we all add a new or old favourite track every now and then we will see a interesting collection grow. Lets keep it one or two tracks each per week, that way we all get new quality to listen to every week? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18FoozXR9oFq0IfNGq91gc
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Tiger King
by Jjss924- 1 follower
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If you are locked in the house with Netflix and haven't watched Tiger King, you're doing quarantine wrong.
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The Warriors
by Abizaga- 24 replies
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I loved this movie. Especially after experiencing the deep lore of the game, I think this is a hell of a great ride. Not sure if it's better that I played the game first or not, but I feel I got a deeper understanding of the gangs in the movie. What do you all think?
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Jaws 3. I was 7 or 8 when this come out, I had not yet seen the first 2. This was only the 2nd movie I had seen in a theatre and it was in 3D and I remember I freaked during th movie, I don't know if I would have done better if we weren't watching it in 3D.
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The Last of Us writer/creative director Neil Druckmann and acclaimed Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin are teaming up for an HBO series based on the hit video game. Naughty Dog president Evan Wells and Carolyn Strauss (executive producer of Chernobyl, among other HBO properties) will also serve as executive producers, and the TV series will be the first from PlayStation Productions. "Neil Druckmann is without question the finest storyteller working in the video game medium, and The Last of Us is his magnum opus," Mazin told The Hollywood Reporter. "Getting a chance to adapt this breathtaking work of art has been a dream of mine for years, and I'm so honored to do it in p…
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Saltburn (2023) dir Emerald Fennell Barry Keoghan stars as student Oliver who becomes friends with the very wealthy Felix (Jacob Elordi) and gets invited to spend the summer holiday at his family's country estate, Saltburn. To me, Keoghan is most famous for his role in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and that makes plot similarities stand out a bit more as Oliver works his way into Felix's family, in an increasingly creepy way. It's a bit nauseating at times, I assume intentionally. Two scenes in particular came close to being un-watchable for me as I have quite low tolerance for anything gross to do with various bodily fluids. Not one to watch while you are eating! I didn't see exactly where the plot was going but how it ended was not a surprise. However the actual last 10 – 15 mins seemed quite rushed, as if the writer wanted to include more but someone decided the film could not be any longer. The acting is very good, particularly Keoghan plus Rosamund Pike and Richard E Grant as Felix's parents. 8 / 10 -
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Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #114 (March 4 – 10) La Pointe-Courte dir. Agnes Varda/1955/1h20m The debut film from one of my favourite filmmakers, Agnes Varda, is also the starting point for one of the most influential cinematic movements in history, the French new wave, often wrongly credited to Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless in 1960. It is a film of two halves. One a portrait of the titular fishing village where we take in the various local characters and their everyday problems ranging from government interference in their fishing operations due to pollution to the illness of a young child. The second half looks closer still at the troubled marriage between two unnamed people (Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort). La Pointe-Courte is his hometown and she is visiting from Paris to see whether their relationship can still work, paralleling the troubled community itself. A blend of fiction and almost documentary like observation this non judgemental look at the lives of the working class prefigures later documentary works of Varda's like The Gleaners and I made forty five years later. But that documentary style doesn't stop the film from being beautifully shot with some very striking compositions, especially when, during a conversation between the two, the two faces of the leads are blended together in a very impressionistic way that reminded me of a shot from Ingmar Bergman's Persona. There are times when the film feels a bit ponderous and it does lack a lot of the playfulness of Varda's best films but that is made up for by the sheer number of cats prominently featured. 8/10 Two George Melies shorts: The Man with the Rubber Head 1901/3m The Diabolic Tenant 1909/7m These two films from the man who put the magic in the movies showcase his talents but at two different points in his career and really highlights the progress he made in just a few years. The Man with the Rubber Head is a simple gag film with Melies playing a man who inflates a head (also Melies) to gigantic proportions before an explosive punchline. In The Diabolic Tenant Melies plays a devilish trickster who rents out a room, furnishing it all from one trunk like an evil Mary Poppins. His furniture comes to life and he is banished so has to pack up in a hurry before scarpering. Both these films make charming use of the camera trickery that he discovered by accident in 1896 which allowed him to make things disappear in a puff of smoke right before our eyes. We see him advance these techniques in these films with him playing with perspective and masking off parts of the film allowing him to pull off tricks that he could never do on the stage. That's what makes watching these films still so enchanting over one hundred years later, the wonder that Melies has at the possibilities of this new toy called film and the ways he could use it to make people gasp at things they've never seen before. The Man with the Rubber Head – 7/10 The Diabolic Tenant – 8/10 Murder Ahoy dir. George p*llock/1964/1h33m The last of the four Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford sees the elderly amateur sleuth and professional busybody investigating an old warship, the HMS Battledore – which is now being used to rehabilitate wayward youths, after one of the trustees of the ship suddenly dies after a visit. This is the first film in the series not based on a story by Agatha Christie, but the writers did an excellent job in crafting a classic whodunnit in her style. There are a hatful of creditable suspects, a couple of extra murders once the investigation has started and a satisfying reveal which culminates in a swordfight between the murderer and Marple, who still has some moves. My favourite thing about this film is the interplay between Marple and the highly strung captain of the ship Captain Rhumstone (Lionel Jeffries), who can't get her off the ship quick enough, so naturally Marple delights in extending her stay for as long as she can. Rutherford is, as always, delightful in the lead role. Cunning and playful in equal measures with a startlingly expressive face she is just a joy to spend time with, so it was a little sad when the credits ran and our time together was over. 8/10 Poor Things dir. Yorgos Lanthimos/2023/2h22m The latest film from the director of The Favourite and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Poor Things stars Emma Stone - who recently won the best actress Oscar for this role - as Bella Baxter, a woman with the mind of an infant who is an experiment of the Frankenstein-esque Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), who she refers to as God. Wanting to leave the small, safe world that he has made for her, wanting to grow as a person and to learn new things and to travel and experience the world she decides to run off with the slimy lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), leaving behind Godwin's sweet assistant Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef). This is a coming of age story taking cues from Frankenstein, Pinocchio and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and shining it through the grotesque, absurd and sexually liberated lens of Yorgos Lanthimos. Stone fully deserves her Oscar. Bella is such a unique, fully realised character who grows throughout the film more than any other character I've ever seen. Starting as a literal baby we follow her through all of the stages of development and she embodies them so fully that it's totally disarming. The score also follows this development. It starts as discordant and atonal, like a child bashing tunelessly on a piano, but as Bella develops and grows the melodies grow more complex until, by the end, it is a fully developed and complex orchestral score. The direction is also unique and distinctly Lanthimos's own with the best use of the fish-eye lens since late nineties skate videos. The production design is just as unique, presenting us with a beautifully artificial world that feels like the perfect playground for Bella. The rest of the performances are excellent, with Ruffalo being just as good as Stone. His Wedderburn is like an evil David Niven, and it's so fun to see him break down more and more as he realises that Bella is a woman that he can't possess until he's just a shell of a man pulling out his hair screaming in the Parisian snow. This film is a lavish feast for the senses in every respect and one that will stay with you long after the final shot. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Holdovers dir. Alexander Payne/2023/2h13m Winter 1970 in a prestigious private school, Paul Giamatti plays ancient history teacher Paul Hunham who has been chosen to stay at the school over the winter break to babysit the small handful of students who have nowhere to go. Pretty much universally disliked by both students and faculty, Hunham slowly starts to form a bond with smart but troubled teenager Angus (Dominic Sessa) and the school's cook Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph, winner of this year's best supporting actress Oscar) who is grieving the death of her teenage son who was killed in Vietnam, with the trio eventually forming their own found family. Giamatti really shines in a rare leading role, really taking the opportunity to flex his acting chops and carry a film. I always love seeing actors mostly known for supporting roles excel in the lead like Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas and Giamatti is just as good here. It's a testament to both his ability and the script that you want to spend as much time as you do with such a curmudgeon. But this isn't just a one note character, with more and more layers slowly revealed which leads up to a pretty heroic ending where he does more for this one kid than any teacher before. Randolph is brilliant as Mary, showing a different side to the world than you would normally see in such an elite setting and is really the heart of the film. Sessa is decent in his debut role, but I just didn't really like his character, which may be the point with him being like a young version of Hunham, but teenagers like that are just annoying as f*ck. This is a coming of age film, but it's the coming of age of a grown *ss man and a reminder that it's never too late. 8.5/10 The Iron Claw dir. Sean Durkin/2023/2h12m The Iron Claw tells the true story of the legendary Von Erich wrestling family who were huge in the 80's, the four brothers ruled over with an iron claw by patriarch Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany). Told from the perspective of Kevin Von Erich (Zac Efron) we experience the highs and mostly lows that this family went through. I had a little knowledge of this story before watching this film but I was not prepared for how sad it is, and the amazing thing is that the actual real story is even sadder. Kevin spends a lot of the film scared that he will pass on the Von Erich curse to his wife Pam (Lily James) and young children and when you see what happened to his brothers you might start to think that he's not just being superstitious. Like The Wrestler this is a film that has a love for the sport but portrays it as it really is. The scenes showing in ring action are really well done and the direction makes it feel like a TV broadcast from the period giving it a real feeling of authenticity. Efron and Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson who play Kerry and David Von Erich all look like the real deal and could probably wrestle a decent match in real life. Also like The Wrestler, you don't need to know anything about wrestling to enjoy this film. If anything, I think you may get more out of it if you don't know anything because it really is quite unbelievable. The performances are all of the highest quality. I'm a big fan of Dickinson's from Triangle of Sadness and Scrapper and he continues a run of excellent and varied performances here, even pulling off a pitch perfect Texas accent, but the real standout is Efron who has left High School Musical long behind him, giving a performance here that had me in tears at the last scene. 9/10 The Champion dir. Charlie Chaplin/1915/31m An ambitiously long early short film from Chaplin sees his little tr*mp and his adorable bulldog companion becoming a boxing champion thanks to some luck and a horseshoe hidden in his glove. He is trained to fight the world champion, threatened to throw the fight and falls in love with the trainers daughter, played by Chaplin mainstay Edna Purviance, all within half an hour. It makes Raging Bull look dull and boring in comparison. Some fantastically slapstick fights are the highlights of this film with Chaplin coming out on top despite his clumsy awkwardness. What's great about Chaplin is how he hardly uses any intertitles, relying on performance to tell the story for the most part. He knows to keep it simple and relatable, and in his immortal character of the downtrodden everyman he is able to insert himself into any situation and we will cheer for him. When he becomes world champion we become world champion and life becomes a little better, even if just for a moment. This isn't a masterpiece like a lot of his other, later films, but here he is already a genius honing his craft to the finest edge. 7/10- 1
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Earthling (2010) dir Clay Liford A low-budget sci-fi set at the current time, based on a good idea but just not that well executed. It begins with the crew of space station encountering a mysterious object, followed a strange “atmospheric event” over the US. The main character, Judith (Rebecca Spence) crashes her car during this event and in the aftermath starts to notice skin from here scalp coming away and strange growths appearing. She is contacted by others who are experiencing the same things, and they come to realise they are aliens, stranded on Earth, having taken over human bodies and then forgot about their true origins. The acting is just about OK from the main characters but not so from some of the support. I think it is the script that really lets this down though. Some of the lines feel a bit banal, and many aspects of the story remain unexplained. Other than that it is reasonably well made and has a nice soundtrack (no idea who by, various artists judging by the credits). One thing I found very weird though was the colour and lighting. In some scenes everything is very pale, almost black and white (see start of trailer) and sometimes it seemed one character would be shown like this whilst another in the same scene was in normal colour – the reasons why or even if that was intentional remain a mystery to me. 5 / 10- 2
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