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Brett Gallman

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3 years

I saw DUNE exactly as Denis Villeneuve intended: on the big screen, with the HALLOWEEN KILLS score bleeding in from the adjacent auditorium.

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2 years

dismissing BODIES BODIES BODIES as shallow and then engaging in the petty, extremely online behavior that movie satirizes is an all-time brutal self-own

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You used to be able to claim "ALIEN is so timelessly crafted that it looks like it could still be released today!" but you can't anymore because let's be real: almost nothing being produced now looks remotely as great as ALIEN did 45 years ago.

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I feel like it’s cheating because it’s ALIEN but my god, watching Alien today and it just feels like, like why can’t things look like this on the regular anymore? Like just this mastery of lighting and shadows and just…..fuck, man.

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6 months

I know it's not exactly cool to sing the praises of HOME ALONE but you've got to respect any movie that lets John Candy casually stroll in around the one-hour mark.

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2 years

men only want one thing and it's for all 3 of Bruce Campbell's characters to show up in SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

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6 years

I've been wondering what it could take to dampen my enthusiasm over Marvel Studios's incredible run, and it turns out it's GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3 without James Gunn.

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4 years

I want this loss to be so devastating that Spirit Halloween takes over Trump Tower next year.

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2 years

normalize this kind of film criticism again

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23 days

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who’s the funniest rapper that could somehow get involved in the Drake-Kendrick beef

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2 years

Netflix apparently wants us to believe that FRIDAY THE 13th is just about a bunch of gal pals hanging out at a lake, I guess.

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5 months

SORCERER (1977)/THE SIMPSONS, "Mr. Plow" (1992)

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2 years

you know, a movie titled EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE really shouldn't open in limited release

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1 year

I think this writers strike has revealed the most insidious side effect of the move to calling art "content." So many people only see this as amusement they're entitled to and don't care how they get it as long as studios keep churning it out.

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1 year

The idea that STAR WARS was ever "just for nerds" is hilarious. It is & pretty always has been one of the most popular things ever created in the history of the world. It's grossed over $10 billion in total. Stop acting like it's something normies picked up on because of Disney.

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Brett Gallman

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2 years

only two episodes in, but I would like to thank The Duffer Brothers for making STRANGER THINGS even more for me by turning it into A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

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3 years

Since THE CONJURING 3 takes place in the 80s, the opening logos should feature this bad boy.

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4 years

I choose to live by the principle "if Paul Rudd is happy, then I'm happy."

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4 years

In addition to everything else, Alex Trebek starred in arguably the best X-FILES episode. A true king. Rest well.

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3 years

the thing about GHOSTBUSTERS 2 is that it's a legit horror movie when it wants to be one

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2 years

Gilbert Gottfried seems like one of those guys who's gonna be remembered for a million different things for different people. For me, it's always going to be his stint on USA Up All Night.

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Brett Gallman

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6 years

CLOVERFIELD: "we're not gonna tell you what it's about" 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE: "we're not gonna tell you we're making it" THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX:

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Brett Gallman

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3 years

I remember watching this episode of MTV Cribs when it first aired. I was in awe of Zombie's walk-in room full of horror movies and figured I'd never have anything like that because I maybe had a 100 DVDs at that point.

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12 years

Whoever picked the Rocky theme for Romney's entrance music must have forgotten that Rocky lost to a black guy. #omen

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8 years

Trump losing to Cruz is like Freddy Krueger losing to Jason Voorhees. There's still a maniac out there waiting to punish you for having sex.

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3 years

No more JEEPERS CREEPERS movies. More FINAL DESTINATION movies. This shouldn't be that hard.

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11 months

the hierarchy of the clearance aisle has changed

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4 years

You know what movie still rules? THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE.

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3 years

Ed O'Neill in WAYNE'S WORLD is an all-time great example of someone stealing a movie with only a few scenes.

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4 years

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4 years

AMC Theatres chief: "We've survived the corona crisis"

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2 years

Probably a little early yet to say this, but the latest TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE & X might be the heralds of a new era where horror movies (particularly slashers) can just be freaky and gleefully screwed up again.

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Brett Gallman

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3 years

Overheard some students talking about HALLOWEEN KILLS today and one of them said something like "I like the HALLOWEEN movies, the real ones that John Carpenter did. That's that dude." Friends, I nearly fell out of my chair.

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Brett Gallman

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6 years

In 2009, Guillermo del Toro produced a largely dismissed movie where a guy has sex with a monstrous lab experiment. 8 years later he won an Oscar for a movie where a woman has sex with a fishman. Never give up on your dreams.

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5 years

This is cool.

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6 months

DIE HARD is just an absolutely immaculate movie, one that hasn't been at all diminished by copycats or any filmmaking innovations during the past 35 years. Love how a new cast member that makes you lose your mind wanders in every 20 minutes or so.

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Brett Gallman

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2 years

The opening credits of THE WARRIORS have more style and energy than most movies have for their entire runtimes. You know this movie totally owns right off the bat.

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Brett Gallman

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10 months

meanwhile over at Regal you can feel the air being let out of the room when their movie quotes bumper plays

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10 months

The amount of applause that Nicole Kidman gets for those AMC ads at some screenings is Avengers Endgame level loud. That’s true power.

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Brett Gallman

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3 years

today wasn't a complete bust though because I finally found some old video store shelves that should sustain me for years to come

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3 years

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7 years

who wore it better

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2 years

Tried watching THE TOXIC AVENGER but had to turn it off after 20 minutes. Felt like mopaganda.

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6 years

Malls should have a Frankenstein Monster or a Dracula for kids to go see during Halloween season.

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3 years

I never need any of these movies but I still love it when the spooky DVDs section arrives.

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1 year

the theater employee when I roll up with a ticket for THE POPE'S EXORCIST

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2 years

Just imagining how much money a new FRIDAY THE 13th or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET could make right now. Incredible that horror is going through this huge resurgence/nostalgia phase and two of its biggest hitters are stuck on the sidelines.

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5 years

I'm not quite sure I believed that Tarantino had such a sentimental film like ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD in him after the nihlism of THE HATEFUL EIGHT. One is the American west as it was (and is?), the other is what we wish it could be. Stunning.

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Brett Gallman

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4 years

What movie do you think you've seen more times than anyone else in the entire world? I feel like everyone has "that movie" they've seen an inexplicable number of times.

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11 months

leaving the Barnes and Noble Criterion sale

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2 months

I love all of the MonsterVerse movies, but I think SKULL ISLAND is my favorite. It's just tremendous pulp, full of great characters and action sequences. Also, pretty much every scene has a shot that goes incredibly hard.

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Brett Gallman

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3 years

does anyone else randomly think about how they remade a whole ass movie just because they knew there would only ever be one chance to release something on June 6th 2006

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9 months

Always wondered if Jigsaw told Lawrence about 9/11 when he was nursing him back to health or if he just let him find out on his own after releasing him.

Letterboxd

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On this day in 2001, Dr. Lawrence Gordon and photographer Adam Stanheight awaken in a strange prison. 🪚

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11 months

if Barbara Crampton called out my bad behavior in public, I would simply cease to exist. Not just on Twitter--I would actually crumble into a pile of dust.

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7 years

“Horror has gone mainstream.”

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5 years

A dream warrior just shared the stage with Laurie Strode.

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2 years

trying to figure out how anyone watched THE WITCH and came away convinced Robert Eggers was calling for a return to tradition

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5 years

The "SCARY STORIES isn't scary enough!" takes are weird because a.) this movie is for kids and b.) it actually feels much more serious/genuinely disturbing than the books? Like, the books are playful in a way the movie really isn't.

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7 months

show of hands: who still has a stack of horror movies you intended to watch before Halloween but never got around to?

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3 years

@whatalanwatches EVIL SPICE TONIGHT

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1 month

the people complaining about all of the production logos on LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL would never survive a film festival

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3 years

I don't think I ever tweeted more about my summer project, mostly because I never finished it. Anyway, the idea was to do a makeshift video store tribute, and now that it's September, it's turning into a Halloween mood area. Still a work in progress.

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Brett Gallman

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3 years

since Netflix originals usually only come to physical media via Criterion, I must ask... Criterion FEAR STREET TRILOGY box set when??

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6 months

(also I genuinely love HOME ALONE, what can I say, Old Man Marley reuniting with his family gets me every year, shut up all of you)

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7 years

I hope Rian Johnson's new STAR WARS trilogy is set centuries before(or after!) the current films. Explore the galaxy.

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2 years

WB releasing SHAZAM 2 on the same day as AVATAR 2

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2 months

AI generated imagery (it's not art) is a scourge to creativity that has the potential to harm the film industry, but I'm not comfortable with dismissing all of the work people put into LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL otherwise, especially those who had nothing to do with the decision.

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1 year

Shout out to the "I pay the $8" contingent for providing a handy block list.

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1 year

the pleas of the rabid TOMMY BOY fandom have finally been heard

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2 years

was JEEPERS CREEPERS really so beloved that its sequels get a theatrical release even after everything we know about Victor Salva?

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3 years

You ever noticed how there's never been a complete JAWS DVD or Blu-ray set with all four movies? Spielberg's influence is very real.

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3 years

it's like they made it a point to find someone who has the exact opposite vibes of Keanu Reeves, very impressive how misguided this is

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3 years

Mel Gibson First Star Set For ‘John Wick’ Origin Series ‘The Continental’ For Starz & Lionsgate Television

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this TERMINATOR SALVATION game has been a staple of my weekly movie-going experience for 15 years

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3 years

Every time I watch ROBCOP I am both aghast and eternally grateful that my parents thought it was totally fine for me to watch it when I was like 8.

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4 years

my plans 2020

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3 years

no more references to Silver Shamrock masks, more references to HALLOWEEN 4's blonde mask, please

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10 months

Have seen multiple reports of issues at different OPPENHEIMER 70mm screenings. Why doesn't Hollywood want people to see this movie? What are they afraid of?

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10 months

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER: Universal really let André Øvredal loose to make a lavish, gnarly gothic horror movie within Stoker's sandbox. Echoes of Murnau & Hammer in the atmospherics/production design, but it's also just a really great, gory, claustrophobic monster movie.

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6 years

I am here for this particular trend.

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2 years

We used to be a country. A proper country.

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8 months

I don't need any of this but it sure is nice to look at.

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11 months

Some people simply cannot understand that it's possible to care about the well-being of others.

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6 years

Since we're seeing so many Stephen King adaptations in development, I guess it's about time for THE DARK TOWER to be made. Crazy how nobody's done it yet.

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2 years

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 and ESCAPE FROM L.A. have a similar energy in the way they both kind of thumb their noses at their predecessors and just try to have an outrageously good time.

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3 years

by the way, that's a pumpkin patch in the background there, so DEATH PROOF is a Halloween movie, that's the rule

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4 years

still a big fan of this tagline strategy

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3 years

me thinking about watching the HALLOWEEN 4 opening credits in 4K

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11 months

David Zaslav is the embodiment of the "content" mentality pervading Hollywood. None of the art that's been entrusted to his care matters to him outside of its perceived bottom-line worth, so it's just a bunch of stuff for a rich guy who already has everything. Bleak shit.

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7 years

Officially 100 days until Halloween.

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1 year

Just because we have an abundance of options in this streaming era doesn't mean this stuff is just easy to produce and roll off of an assembly line. Being creative is hard as hell, and reducing it to "content" is a total disservice that tries to turn art into a service industry.

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Roger Corman's legacy will always be intertwined with exploitation, but he should also be considered one of the most forward-thinking filmmakers ever. He figured out so much about B-movies, emerging talent, shifting demographics, & home video long before Hollywood caught on.

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If you enjoy THE DARK KNIGHT but recognize that the methods used by a vigilante who dresses as a bat wouldn't be legally or morally sound in reality then congratulations, you have a healthy relationship with fantasy and fiction.

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3 months

The first 23 seconds of STARSHIP TROOPERS, a movie some people on this app routinely swear isn't satire.

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1 year

Clancy Brown in JOHN WICK 4 rules for obvious reasons but also I think it signals that Stahelski and company know that they've really been making a spiritual successor to HIGHLANDER this entire time.

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4 years

When it's Kurt Russell's birthday and you're under quarantine.

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3 years

Brad Dourif was the king of 1990

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7 years

Everyone today: "Happy first day of summer!" Me: "4 more months 'til Halloween..."

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10 months

It didn't feel like it at the time, but 20 years later, it's clear that FREDDY VS JASON was the end of an era--and a magnificent ending at that.

END OF AN ERA: 20 YEARS OF ‘FREDDY VS. JASON’ (2003) - Daily Grindhouse

Few films have ever been as rabidly anticipated as FREDDY VS. JASON. No, the actual film isn’t likely to be hailed as a horror classic, and I’m guessing most fans don’t even consider it among the...

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2 years

Considering the response to HALLOWEEN ENDS, I can't help but wonder how a FRIDAY THE 13th series without Jason is going to go over.

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1 year

There was *maybe* roughly a decade (about '85-'95) when it looked like STAR WARS might become nerd esoterica but then it came back in a big way with the SEs and it hasn't gone away since. So spare me this "STAR WARS isn't for us anymore!" nonsense over Jack Black & Lizzo.

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4 years

also we respect the horror movie multipack in this house

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11 months

Truly believe Clu Gulager gives one of the funniest performances of all-time in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.

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