iTunes Exclusive Episode Under The Skin

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The following is a sooner orgator production.
The following is a sooner orgator production.
The following is a sooner orgator production.
Greetings members of the Empire.
We say plural because we hope you're listening to it with people you know.
If you are hearing this, it means two things.
Number one, you subscribe to our show, the Clubhouse podcast on iTunes.
And for that, we appreciate you.
The other thing it means is that it's time for an iTunes exclusive.
My name is Robin.
I feel like it's been a minute since we've been here.
We haven't been in the studio in a very, very long time.
It feels like it's been a couple of weeks.
And we are kind of on a little bit of a hideous.
So this is the most you're going to get out of us on the weekend.
This is recorded.
Joining me for this exclusive is a man who feels my pain.
He is the official fact checker of the show.
You may know him is fun, don't go.
But his mom and name and don't afford.
I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Welcome, sir.
We are back in the studio.
I know.
Oh, I've been looking forward to this one.
If we do, when we do these things, more often than not, it's to review a movie.
The last one of these we did was the post show for the Dallas International Film Festival.
We hope you caught that.
If not, make sure you go download it.
There was a whole lot of unstable on our shows in the last week.
And we're going to give you a wrap-up hopefully within the next week or so of our experiences at the Dallas International Film Festival.
But I've got a lot of work to do before we can do that.
But the movie we're going to talk about today is the latest from director Jonathan Glaser.
He did the movie Birth with Nicole Kidman.
So you kind of know what you're in for.
It's called Under the Skin.
And it stars Scarlett Johansson and other people.
I mean, yeah.
I don't really want to talk too much about the plot.
Because if you haven't had the internet ruined it because the problem is if you look this up on IMDB, it kind of gives away the ending of the film.
Totally.
Yeah, there's a reveal at the end of the film that I felt if I hadn't known that going in.
First of all, the first minute and 50 minute and 43 minutes of the film would have been very confusing for me.
But there would have been a payoff.
I'm okay that makes sense.
But I'm not going to ruin it for you.
If you want to ruin it for yourself, that's up to you.
Basically, she likes to drive around and look for dudes who really don't have anything that they're attached to.
And then seduce them and then stuff happens to them.
They're going to lawball and you can call it that.
I'm so mad exactly sure.
Let's talk about the overall look of the film before we get in.
Because final analysis is going to be real interesting on this one.
What did you think of the way the film looked?
Good and bad.
And what I mean by that is at the beginning there was a lot of weird stuff.
And like the beginning of the movie, you see this like ball.
Like okay, what's this mean?
In a lot of weird scenes and everything like that, especially like what I call the lawball of my hand.
Right.
But beyond that, one of the best things I could say about this is the scenery and a lot of those shots in Scotland there weren't incredible.
I like the scenery in that movie.
There are, I remember there was one shot where it shows a lake and you see the fog just going over the lake.
And that was like a real shot of nature.
And there is there is a beautiful beautiful shots of nature and that thing.
There's a whole lot of Scotland.
It definitely is filmed in Scotland.
Yeah, so on that look of the natural scenes and everything, a lot of incredible shots, which I found incredible.
But the lot of weird shots of lawball land where I'm going to excuse me.
And I'll give it to you on this for your opinion on it.
The look of the film I thought was very gritty.
It kind of was trying, if you pair it with the score of the film, it was definitely going for that 60s, 70s style.
I'm not saying that's a good thing.
Yeah.
Because I...
And we will talk about the score.
Well, we can talk about it with that.
I mean, the score was what it was.
I mean, it was trying to fit a certain mood.
But again, I don't want to say too much because I don't want to give away too much.
Because I want to bring this up to you.
I could see where Gleisure was going with this, but I don't know that it was necessary.
There was...
And I got to warn the Empire because they deserve to be warned on this.
I agree.
For a lot of the... I'd say the first half of the movie.
Especially, I thought opening soon where you see that ball, which, you know, which I said earlier.
It's just annoying like...
Oh, hey!
That's that, but that's that 60s 70s ball.
Yeah, but it just got so annoying and annoying and annoying and it's like, okay, this is getting bad.
What he's trying to do with the sound.
I understand, but there's better ways to do it than want to plug your ears on this thing.
Again, it's hard to talk about this film and not giving it and give anything away.
I think I'm going to be the challenge of this particular iTunes exclusive.
But I can say this generally, it's kind of a sci-fi kind of thing to give the people...
To give the Empire an idea.
It's a really weird, weird, weird story telling sci-fi flick.
And a lot of what you know, first of all, I want to tell people,
There's no dialogue for the first 15 minutes of this thing.
It's just her driving around at a van looking at people.
Exactly.
And what's the annoying background sound?
Yes.
And everybody she talked to were not actors.
They were basically just dudes off the street.
And if things got to a certain point then they were let in on the bit and said,
if you want to continue, this is what's going to happen, blah, blah, blah.
So it's not like there was a casting call for this.
It didn't real life.
Yes.
This was this really happened.
They just put lipstick cameras in the van.
And the people she was talking to were real people.
I mean, you want to be in a movie.
It took laser 10 years to make this movie.
Even though they filmed it in 2010.
But still,
Glaciers direction, we can talk about that for a minute.
Again, I could see what he was trying to do.
I just don't know that he succeeded in doing it in my eyes personally.
Not even close.
For Alfonso Quaron to have a line of praise on the poster.
I think he might need to rethink that.
Yes, exactly.
I didn't, I mean, I respect this right.
This film's right to exist because we do live in a world where everything's a remake or a reboot.
It's a certain formula to it.
So on that level, I respect Grisier as a filmmaker for making some very,
I guess you could call them bold choices.
It's a real artsy side of that.
Very, very interesting.
And I think that the industry needs a film like this every once and again.
I just don't know if this film was that film that that, you know what I'm saying?
That the industry needs per se.
Joe Hanson herself, first of all, she's this car with Joe Hanson.
So she gets to pass with me for being who she is.
Exactly.
I thought the accent she pulled off incredibly well.
She did a great job with the accent.
I think she was trying not to overplay the role and in doing so almost did.
There was a lot that could have been explained a little bit better at,
maybe not right up front, but maybe as the film went on.
If you are of our gender,
there's probably a couple of scenes that you've waited a long time for.
We do gotta warn the empire.
There is a ton of nudity mail.
I wouldn't say it.
Time.
There's a lot.
But above that.
More than necessary.
Yes.
I agree with that.
But again, I thought she did a great job.
There's another mail, I guess you could call him a lead in the film.
That's her counterpart.
It was almost like, why is this person even necessary?
I didn't understand why we had to,
I mean,
especially since there was no payoff to his character.
Exactly.
You don't know what happens in the end.
You know, it was very, I don't know.
It was just like, I know that it's probably meant to be a discussion piece.
And I'm sure that there's layers upon layers that you can peel back like an onion in this thing.
But for me,
I was okay leaving it where it was when I left the theater.
You know, I didn't say, hey, Don, let's go,
let's go next door to Twin Peaks and talk about the value of this film for the next couple of hours.
You remember what I was saying after that?
Yeah, I was open when we walked out.
I was like, okay, I can leave that one where it is.
There's no need for me to do anything else here.
Uh, I'm getting ready to rip this thing.
I know.
I know.
I know.
And we're going to have a written reviews up on our website,
probably by the time that the empire hears this,
if not within a few hours.
I just,
I don't know that I took anything away from this film.
You know what I'm saying?
At least with films like the counselor.
It looked a lot of things.
It took, we were able to talk about it after the film and say,
you know, was this this or was this this?
Get discussion piece.
You get out of the enemy also.
Yeah.
You get out of under the skin and you're kind of like,
so that happened.
You know, I mean, that's the only way,
just the only way to say it.
So that happened.
And like this thing,
Traged on and on and on.
It was an hour,
48 that felt like double that.
And it could have been done.
A lot of it,
I think a lot of it was because there was so much lack of movement in the story,
and there was so much lack in dialogue.
That you're just like,
is this thing going to pop the background piece again?
You're welcome.
Uh,
I don't know.
I just didn't feel like I walked out of that to go,
hey, you know what?
I didn't need to take it with me.
It was there and it was good to say right where it was.
Yeah, I got nothing out of this flick.
Um,
and I'll be honest with you.
I've said this.
I'm going to say publicly to the Empire,
probably the last third of the film.
I was thinking,
how can I rip this thing to shreds class?
And you said that to me as we were walking out.
I'm not trying to be honest with you,
but we have,
oh, actually we'll hang on that at the end.
So,
let's just go ahead and go straight to the final analysis.
Well, before we do that,
we got to think of it.
Well, I was going to do that when we did the plugs.
Um,
the way we do reviews on this show is we don't do stars or numbers or cloudy,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's the thing that everybody else does because,
you know,
sure we rip off certain things,
but this we don't rip off.
We're going to take a two-pronged question.
Question.
One is would you see this film again?
The answer to that is no,
that sits where it sits.
If the answer to that question is yes,
then it becomes,
if you see this again,
how would you see it?
Would you pay to see it in first run?
Would you see it in a twilight?
Would you see it matinee?
Would you see it early morning?
Would you see it in second run?
Would you get it for red box?
Would you buy the blue ray?
Would you wait for it on cable?
Dawn?
I'm going to ask you the question.
Would you watch this film again?
Definitely not there we go.
There we go.
The only people I'd recommend is film forest
that directors and maybe a family to say,
well, it sounds a director.
Well, they've been able to say that already.
I mean, he did.
He did nothing.
He did a couple of films.
I would not see this film again either.
And I don't know.
Maybe it's because I'm sure there's going to be these art
for art sites.
People that are like, you don't get it.
Okay.
I don't get it.
I can sleep well at night with that knowledge.
You know what I'm saying?
I was going into this going,
could this be,
and I put this on the review.
Could this be the new Blade Runner or the new
Blade Runner?
Would this be the new
Blade Runner or whatever?
It was the total opposite to the other end.
I mean, you're the Empire and you have your own opinions
and we respect that.
And if you if you feel the overwhelming
the overwhelming need to see this film. We're not going to stop you. But we are going to say
perceive caution. Exactly. I mean, I'm sure it has its place and it'll have its place in history.
But for me, there's that. Let's go ahead and do the plug, shall we? Yeah, we got put the shout out.
First of all, thank you to our friends at Allide in a great marketing for even giving us the opportunity
screen this film. They are some of our favorite people in the world and we're looking forward to seeing more of them.
One of them is going to be in studio with here. Oh, that's a good one about three weeks. You know,
they want our honesty. We're getting them. Yeah. Exactly. We are thinking for the opportunity though.
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