ESL Podcast 350 – A Movie Review

http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=4951631

Audio Index:
Slow dialogue: 1:25
Explanations: 2:59
Fast dialogue: 12:10

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Sally: Did you see the new movie, The McQuillan Story? I'm writing a movie review for the school paper.

Marcus: I went to the premiere last week. What did you think of it?

Sally: I liked it. I thought it was entertaining, although it wasn't groundbreaking, by any means.

Marcus: You thought it was entertaining? I thought it was awful. I almost walked out. The acting was wooden and uninspired, and the direction was amateur.

Sally: Aren't you being too critical? It was the director's first movie and I thought his directorial debut wasn't bad. If there was a problem, it was with the screenplay.

Marcus: Don't get me started on the screenplay! The story was so predictable and the dialogue was pretentious. This movie is going to bomb for sure.

Sally: Oh, I don't know. I think some people may enjoy it.

Marcus: If you want to do your readers a favor, you'd tell them to skip this movie and save their money!


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- premiere : the first time that the movie is shown in public
- to be entertaining : to be interesting
- groundbreaking (n): new , modem, revolutionary, completely different against the past
- by any mean : at all, in any way
- to walk out : to leave the theater before a movie or performance ends
- wooden : without emotion
- debut (n): the first time sth is shown/presented in publich
- pretentious  (adj): negative meaning : try to be more important than it really is
- to bomb: to be a disaster



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Thanks,
Duy Lam