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Here we are.

Back to the movies. Welcome to me back in a movie theater, everybody.

Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

Luke Savage, hey everyone.

Every dark cloud has a silver lining. Living in a pandemic is a hard situation to be in,

but it has produced some great art, and the art I'm talking about is a viral video, a tweet, actually,

a tweet video that went around this week, which is maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen.

And it was from Tom Cruise's Twitter account.

And it was a video that he posted of him going to see the movie Tenet, which has been released theatrically now in much of the world, most of the world.

I think the video showed him going to see it in London.

And it's hard to put your finger quite on why this video is so funny.

You saw it, right? Yeah, it's got this uncanny, kind of slightly timinic editing to it, this

like staccato editing, which just cuts very quickly from one thing to the next. And Cruz just has

this very bizarre, like one dimensional intensity where he's trying to celebrate the film.

But he can't find anything to say about it except, you know, these very Trumpian flourishes where it's like, yeah, it's big.

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