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Hello and happy New year, dear listeners.

Welcome back to what went wrong,

your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies

and how hard it is to make them,

let alone a good one,

let alone a controversial one that you might think is boring like Chris does. I am one of

your hosts, Lizzie Bassett, here as always with Chris Winterbauer. And I'm very excited about this

new year, new you holiday movie that we have for us today. Chris, what are we covering?

We're covering that zany, lighthearted rump. That's right. Stanley Kubrick's 13th and final film,

which I don't think is boring, but I do find difficult to engage with, I guess, I'll say.

Eyes wise shut. Now, Lizzie, before we get into our thoughts on the

film, a brief suggestion to our audience, we're going to be discussing both Stanley Kubrick and

Tom Cruise at length in this episode. And if you want to learn more about Tom Cruise in particular,

you should head over to The Big Flop

by Wondry, where Lizzie and I are guest hosting this week to talk about Tom Cruise and his

flop era that started shortly after the release of this film, but also covers his upbringing and his

rise in Hollywood. Of course, if you want to learn but also covers his upbringing and his rise in Hollywood.

Of course, if you want to learn more about Stanley Kubrick and his biography, you can check

out our coverage of The Shining. And you can have a nice little eyes wide shut sandwich

that'll be about as long as the movie. Yeah. If you want to listen to three podcasts in one day. Okay, Lizzie,

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