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My name is Rob.
I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and I'll do some meeting on you.
I'm a big fan of food.
Just saying.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode are 148th one of these.
Joining me across the desk is the official fact checker of this show and a man that'll
do some cooking on you if you let him.
I may know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and name him Don Ford, I'm going to
call him Don Ford.
Welcome sir.
I have the scars to prove it.
Look right there.
I know it's not your media.
You burned yourself a cup of tea.
Actually, I used to have one too from a fajita skillet that somebody I was a dishwasher
and somebody left the handle sticking out of the water that you're supposed to put in the
cool off.
Right on my arm brother.
No.
Yeah.
That was not pouch.
Yeah.
I feel like you're paid.
Normally when we do these, I choose exclusions.
I used to review something in this particular edition is no different.
Today we are reviewing the brand new film from director John Wells.
This is a guy known mainly for writing on shows like Shameless, Southland, ER, the Westwing,
third watch.
He hasn't had as much directing, but most of what he's directed, he's done nine episodes
of ER, four episodes of Shameless.
He did direct the movie August Ostage County a couple of years ago.
All enjoyed.
Absolutely.
But right now we're dealing with his current opus known as burnt, starring people like Bradley
Cooper, CNN Miller is in this thing, Daniel Brull, the great Omar sigh, a name that
you should know, and others, Emma Thompson, Emma Thompson of course.
Former begin though.
We got to think our best friends, allied integrated marketing.
Thank Kelsey, the Weinstein company and everybody for inviting us to this thing.
We love those guys.
Absolutely.
In this film, Bradley Cooper plays a chef by the name of Adam Jones, not the Adam Jones
from the NFL.
Completely different on Jones.
Different guy.
He is a chef.
He basically really big on the scene, really popular, ends up destroying his career with
it with a substance abuse, has to go away for a couple of years and they tries to go
burned a lot of bridges and parents than they.
He was in Paris right and then he burned his career in a movie starts with him actually
in New Orleans where he spent two years before he tries to go back to Europe by going
to London and tries to be basically to redeem himself by being a chef in a restaurant
and a hotel.
Correct.
Now, Don was able to see this, I was not able to attend the screening, but I will be
playing an interviewer for this to get his opinions.
Very, very highly anticipated film.
I saw the trailer, I was very, I'm very still very interested in this film.
Let's approach it from the story standpoint first.
What do you think of the way this story was told in this film?
I was very impressed because it starts off with him in New Orleans and he's only there
for about 10 minutes.
But through the film, you start to realize what happened in the past.
Are there, is there a lot of things told in flashback, or is it just told in the narrative?
In the narrative.
Okay.
Yeah, in the narrative.
Please do in the New Orleans, he's been cleaning sober now for two years.
And what his goal was, he goes, I'm going to shut a million oysters and then I'm
going to go back to London.
I'm a fan of the oyster.
I'm a fan of the oyster.
You really?
When he had that millionth oyster, he walked out of that restaurant and said, I'm
see you later by.
So he goes to London.
Now, he kind of gets up with this old crew from some of the people in pairs.
Okay.
Why is people, he burned the bridges with, especially the guy in Tony, who is paid by
Brul.
Daniel Brul.
Yeah.
Basically, made Brul, lose a restaurant.
Now, Brul's then now the owner of the hotel in the restaurant and made her
these, one of the best made her these.
The way he's able to do it, Daniel Brul, from films like Inglorious Bastards, Rush.
He's actually playing Baron Zemo in the upcoming Captain America Civil War.
Exactly.
And then he gets some of his old crew back from, from Paris.
He gets a guy in a sigh, who plays McHead.
And then he also gets Ricardo, who plays Max in that one.
So I just kind of, some of the crew back and he's able to try to amend those, you
know, fences of, you know, what he's done in the past.
Now, the thing is, his, the storyline is very interesting because how they're able
to figure out what happened in the past over time and see what goes on as this film goes
on and on, the, the thing is about this film and a storytelling, which I put in my
ready to be at the clubhouse.com, that's our website.
I got 25 years in the business.
Yep.
And you and I have those been quite a bit of time in these services.
Yeah, just like the way we're waiting, a lot of it's true.
But this stuff where he throws him plates against the wall, he slams the counter, because
it's not perfect.
I've seen it and I've been on the other end of that stuff.
So what happens of that, what I call the organized chaos during the middle of the dinner
rush or lunch rush, that is true to form.
I have to give him out on act and because a lot of people don't understand is these
chefs.
They are artists.
Oh, yeah.
And when the arts not right, it doesn't make them happy with any of us when anything
that we create isn't what we want it to be.
It's very frustrating.
And another thing is, it's like in the restaurant world when you're back in the kitchen
is you try to make it perfect as you can and get it out timely.
But he's one of those guys who will just throw it and say, I don't care how long they
wait, this is going to be in our peace.
And you can see with, and I want to get now a little bit to the acting because this correlates.
Right.
That's why I want to segue into, I mean, if I'm not mistaken, Bradley Cooper, you
know what you're getting.
This guy is one of the great actors of the modern era.
I mean, if he could do something in the hangover, then do American sniper, now be a
chef.
I mean, I've been a fan of this guy since he was on alias, of course, you know, the
18.
I mean, this guy's done so much silver linings playbook.
Oh, yeah, I mean, let's go American hustle.
This guy knows the craft.
And Broadway.
Yeah, I mean, he's got tons of, I mean, you look at just the cast in this alone.
There's a lot.
There's quite a few big names.
I mean, you have Emma Thompson and Uma Thurman.
Yeah, in this thing, Omar Sai, who on my huge fan of, he was also in Jurassic
World, Daniel Brul, CNN Miller, and that's like the, you would say, if there was a supporting
actress, that would be her.
The end of Miller?
Yeah, okay.
Because what happens?
He meets her when he's trying to, you know, get this crew together.
He sees, uh, the caller held in, uh, she's working in a restaurant and he just saw something
in her and said, I want you over with me.
Okay.
And the thing with Cooper in his acting, he is trying to mend fences, but he's still an
arrogant jerk at the same time.
So he kind of can't get out of his own way.
Yeah, and he wants perfection in what he's doing, because this guy is like the
world renowned chef and he's going for his third Michelin star.
And so how one moment he could be, you know, trying to mend those fences and everything,
then the next moment, just throw a plate at you.
Yeah, a Michelin star, you want to explain to the audience about Michelin star is what
happens?
It's like the holy grail of when it comes to reviews in the restaurant world.
And they will come in to your restaurant and you even explained it in the film very well,
which I thought was very impressive is they will have people as undercover customers.
They will not say they're with Michelin or anything like that.
Right.
And they'll do certain things and they will order certain stuff, certain ways.
And then they'll give the review and he's going for that third star, which is like the
holy grail.
If you get a third Michelin star, that means this place is you could charge $50 a
plate and get away with it.
Fair enough.
And so that's one thing they're worried about is the Michelin star people coming in.
If you get a no star, I mean, greasy, smooth and diner.
Fair enough.
Hey, that's impressive.
You get to it's like, whoa, and even putting the film in Star Wars or it's like Luke Skywalker
would be a two star, but Yoda is the third star.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
So that's one of the things he's working through in just trying to deal also with his
demons.
Did you really feel that came through in Cooper's performance?
Oh, yeah.
Because there's issues where he's dealing with how you say on savory people for fun
that are, oh, that he wants to pay off himself.
Okay.
Okay.
He's on.
Really juggling the multiple storylines in this well, as far as because he's the central
characters.
He's the one experiencing all this.
Yeah.
How he's able to jug, trying to be nice while he throws a plate at you, deal with
his demons, which he handles very well of being the sober and stuff like that for two
years.
And all the, how do you say, uh, from a square out in the, a promiscuous, miscuted in this
past.
Okay.
But that's from a skewed.
He's different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He got around.
Apparently that way.
So, but how does the rest of the cast work around him and how, and there's one scene
I'm going to be spoiler free on this.
Okay.
There's one scene where one of his fellow past compatrails does something that you
never see coming.
Okay.
Good.
It's like, oh, it just, I did not see that coming, but it was in a very good way.
Okay.
But how, sign a film will, oh, my side.
Well, come by work with the guy and then have a plate throwing at him, but then five
minutes eight later, still care about this place.
You know, how he could just, I know this guy.
I know how, you know, Adam is as a chef and I understand it and I could take the
abuse because we're on that same goal because we want perfection in the kitchen.
And at the same time, I have to give a kind of give a shout out to Steven Campbell Moore, who
plays Jack, who was basically like his competitor.
Okay.
You know, he was a competitor and he already has a fine dining restaurant in London and
here, you know, Adam comes in and you see that competition, but they respect for each
other.
Steven Campbell Moore, you know, from films like the bank job season of the witch, but
not, not a whole lot of things.
Yeah.
But he played the, how you say the rival or the competition, he played that very well
where there were totally arrogant toward each other, but how they still were able to show
that respect without saying it.
So I mean, this film when I was watching this go and I've seen that, I've seen that.
That's true.
Fair enough.
Yeah, that's true.
So do you really think that that welds really brought this thing to life?
Well, for you as a director?
Yeah, because I thought the movie, the look was fine.
It showed, I have to give it how it showed the kitchen in the organized chaos.
It's show that to a T with the, even with the, how they're able to film in the
restaurant.
So I'd say like the background in the scenery was done very well showing a kitchen
in chaos, showing how they, how they, how they, like, put that behind the scenes, but
they seem so formal once they hit that dining room.
And it written by Steven Knight, who actually was one of the creators of who wants
to be a millionaire.
So I mean, seeing that it, it just brought back so many memories and this was so real
life that I think the direction in everything, there's going to be some word
amount about this saying, hey, this, this is a, you know, something you want to check
out.
And especially if you worked in the restaurant business, oh, because this will really hit
home to you.
Big time.
Anything else before we get to the final analysis, um, not really, I think we covered
it all there, but begin before we finish out again, we got to think Kelsey, everybody
had allied.
Some of our best friends in the world.
And now I see a lot better to us than the ever of had to be.
Yeah, you know, they've been so great.
Thanks again.
The way we do the final analysis on this show, we don't give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We don't give you stars.
We don't give you rudder grades or whatever.
We have two questions, because our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the
Empire is better than that.
Question number one is, would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, it becomes how far are you willing to go to see this again?
We pay full price.
We go to a Twilight, Matt and A, early morning on the weekend, second run and a dollar
theater.
Maybe you'd venture out of your house to go running from red box, stream it on Netflix,
wait for it on cable.
Don, would you see this film again?
Uh, first off, that's a definite yes, but lawyers to call you.
Cause I think it's, but you're welcome in it.
How far are you willing to go to see it?
I'd say Twilight.
Okay.
So just almost the film right there.
Yeah.
Couple little minor things, but I don't really want to get into, but still, I think
that fold well and everything like that, a couple of things that just didn't, that's
not real, but I mean, 99% 95% of it was so good in everything, you probably would
it will look like you're watching probably an hour in.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I'll give it to Twilight.
I'm very, very interested in it.
Definitely recommend it beyond it.
Just like just over 90 minutes.
Yeah.
Sort of an hour 45.
Yeah.
Just like the movie chef.
Oh, I don't know how much I love that film.
Eat before you go and then watch this thing, because I was on a full stomach and still,
I, it's like, oh, I would like, um, fair enough.
Yeah, some of that food you see in that screen, it will make you hungry.
If you go in on an empty stomach, you know, watch out.
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