iTunes Exclusive Episode My All-American

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when not committed to the service of our armed forces in the state of Texas.
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No, that's the actual robot.
Not the guy in the booth.
Wouldn't call him a robot.
You're a scene.
But this is no exception to that rule.
We are here to review for you today.
The brand new film.
The directorial debut of season writer Angela pizza.
I mean, he's written a lot of things.
Broke Rudy wrote Hoosiers.
So it would only be natural that he'd write another sports film for his
directorial debut called My All American.
Based on the book by Jim Dent.
One name that I know you serve recognized from this film was one Aaron
Eckhart.
Absolutely.
He's in this.
As well as Robin Toney.
He's also in this as well.
Trying to think of what I know that.
He's done a lot of stuff including the craft.
She was also an in Scenoman.
Oh gosh.
Do you remember that?
We're trying to forget it.
Something that she wishes she could take off her resume.
But this is the true story of Freddie Steinmark.
He was a kid who grew up in Colorado.
And he was a high school football player.
Middle school football player, pop Warner football player.
Very gifted kid, but not a big kid.
So he's not getting scouted by all the big universities.
And through some circumstances, he winds up going to the University of Texas
in Austin along with his high school girlfriend named Linda Wheeler.
He played by Sarah Bulger.
Who I looked up today on IMVB and she was born when I was a senior in high school.
So that felt nice.
But he gets to Texas and decides that, you know, he's not done earning his spot.
So he just keeps trying and keeps trying and keeps trying.
And in the year of 1969, a very, a very year for you.
Yes.
They go for the National Championship and there's some adversity that happens.
Just about as deep as I want to go because if you don't know the story, I don't want to ruin it for you.
But we are going to talk about it because that's what we do.
Before we get in.
Yes, sir.
We have to think of best friends.
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We love them.
Absolutely.
So much.
An hilarious entertainment for the brightness to this thing.
Thanks again, guys.
This runs right about two hours.
Do you ever take?
Yeah.
I mean, we can just go ahead and start with
Peter's view of the film.
I thought his vision was gorgeous.
Chad could not join us for this one.
But he is here for moral support and asking any questions that he may have.
But I thought the look of this thing was absolutely gorgeous.
Perfect.
It showed Austin in all of its glory.
It showed rural Colorado in all of its glory.
It very historically correct.
Absolutely.
Beyond belief.
I mean, the crowds, which after the film, what did I ask you?
Remember what asked you about the dress?
I'd like to fan to everything.
Oh, yeah.
Back in the day, you couldn't go to a sporting event.
Not dressed up.
Yeah.
You've watched the old baseball footage.
You guys are in suits and hats and glasses in the whole night.
Yeah.
We're talking a different kind of dress up in this.
You know, it's like a long-haul game.
But you don't see the orange around the crowd.
Absolutely.
No painted faces.
No bare chest.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Thank God for that.
I like how it showed in that time the old arena, too.
You know what I'm saying?
It works as the innards.
Some today scenes where they show the new arena.
Which I really like.
The cars, the home inside the homes and everything.
The dress of all the actors.
It was really historically correct.
Which is something I'm a big kid.
That's big for you.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Very pressed on that.
It looked amazing.
What the film needed though.
There's no extra special CGI or anything that was needed.
So I thought the look, everything, the feel.
That was perfect for this thing.
I will agree with you.
Absolutely.
Correct.
I have no complaints whatsoever on this.
But it's like that.
It could be a double-edged sword when you have the writer and director working
out doing the same thing in the same film.
We talked about that a lot of this.
Exactly.
I think with this, it's just first try at directing.
Overall, I think he did good when it came to the look and everything else with the film
and the storyline and everything like that.
I was impressed as this being his debut.
I was as well.
But he's been around the business for so long.
Especially being the guy that wrote it.
Yeah.
I think that it was a good first try for him.
Very, very well.
It was his own material.
It wasn't his own material.
But it was his own screenplay that he wrote from.
Exactly.
So I was impressed for directorial WNS2.
I thought what it came to the storyline though.
I was really interested.
It was two hours didn't seem like two hours.
If I have one complaint on the whole thing of this film.
It's the fact that that championship game of 1969.
Or they played Arkansas.
They, I think they spent too much time on that one game in the film.
Me personally.
I could see how you would say that.
And not much of the after what happens after that game and after the season ends.
There's really not much into the film about what happens after the season ends when it comes down to it.
I think they could have took about five, six minutes out of that.
The game part of the film and put that towards what happens after the season.
Me personally.
I could see how you'd say that.
It didn't really bother me because it was building up to something.
Yeah.
And it was a big moment for the University of Texas.
And I think that's kind of what they were going for here.
But I think they just should have done more after the game than what they did.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
I mean, I personally.
Yeah.
For me it was, it was perfectly pace and I was.
Well, the season was good.
I noticed it.
Yeah.
But I will say what Finn Whitrock in the lead role.
This kid was part McConaughey and part Matt Damon for me.
Exactly.
Which is not a bad thing.
And he played it very, very well.
Like you, he the way he portrayed it.
You were feeling what he was feeling.
The good old American boy who never gives up.
And believe me, he didn't.
And one thing I want to add on this, it comes to the acting when they're playing football
and stuff.
When we're watching this in the theater.
Oh, yeah.
There was you heard those hits.
And I will tell you something, sir.
When you get the chance to watch this on your home theater system,
your subwoofer will need a cigarette at the end of it.
Exactly.
I mean, these hits are hard.
Whoever did this sound editing, they were just like just crank it to 11 dude.
Make it happen.
Yeah.
It's, it's that intense.
I mean, I put on my written review of the clubhouse podcast.com.
That's our website.
I put on there that I really thought that sometimes you felt like you were in the game
because you were surrounded by all the hits, everything.
I thought the filming of that, especially in the games,
wasn't credible because it made you feel like you were right on the field.
And a good chunk of this was filmed in our fair burser.
Really?
Yep.
A big, at least the third of the film.
Well, they're so accountable.
But a third of the football sequences were filmed at TCU.
Okay.
Which kind of leads us into a chance.
Happen stance meeting that we had after the film.
We were in the, didn't realize as we were in the lobby after the film
that Danny Boe as who played Super Bill.
Donnie Boe as I'm sorry.
Uh, plays Super Bill Bradley.
Was out there.
He was actually at our screening and he gave us the,
the opportunity to just kind of shit chat with him for a few minutes.
That's rare.
And he talked a lot about just, he said first of all,
the original cut for this film was three and a half hours long.
Good, guys.
Dances with football is basically.
I mean, and this guy's got skins on a wall because when an actor says,
I've done 96 films and this is far and away my favorite project I've ever done.
Wow.
And the biggest budget.
Yeah.
And he talked about, you know, he got to throw passes because,
I'm not to ruin too much of the story,
but he's the quarterback when he joins the team.
Wouldn't Freddy Steinmark get to, to get to Texas.
Okay.
He's like, yeah, I got to throw passes to Jordan Shipley,
who is a Texas longhorn legend pretty much in this day and age.
People know who he is because he went to Texas.
He's in the NFL now.
I believe he's a backup somewhere as a receiver.
And he's like, you just throw the ball up and this guy just catches it.
He talked about how they only used about a thousand extras total.
And that includes on the field.
Yeah.
So the guys that were on the cards.
Yeah, the other guys that were on the other team,
they'd be like, okay.
Now you're Arkansas.
Me, it's what's the uniforms.
They do a couple takes it.
Okay.
Now we're going to Baylor.
It's a change.
It's efficient though.
But like the scenes at the cotton ball,
how they, how they've been able to get the technology,
where they only had to film one section full of people.
And then pretty much cut and paste it through the rest of the,
that always, the stadium and just change colors on uniform,
on outfits and stuff.
He really, he's probably spent a good 10, 15 minutes just to chat with us.
And, and, and, and, and I skyd.
Donnie Bow is couldn't be a nicer guy.
Absolutely.
Cannot have been a nicer guy.
I want to say he said 96 films films and TV roles.
Because he was like, some of that, who, when he's on the TV.
Well, no, but if you look at his IMDB page,
it's actually the numbers like a hundred and something.
So he's actually just counting films.
Okay.
Because he's got a lot of stuff.
It's either in production or waiting in post production.
But he has a lot of skins in the game over the years.
Yeah.
One of the thank him for taking some time out with us.
Because he had just been in the LA premiere the night before.
Who's with us at the Dallas premiere and was leaving from there
to go to Austin for the premiere there.
And first time he saw it was the night before in LA.
Yeah.
Good gosh.
Final cut.
And, I mean, everybody in this was really, really good.
I didn't have any issue.
I thought, I thought Aaron Eckhart,
when you think Darrell Royal, you don't think the guy that played the right version of two face.
No.
But honestly, sir.
His portrayal, you totally buy it.
You totally buy it.
Like he plays it with such heart and such.
He gives that intent and integrity.
So what I'm looking for.
To the character that needs it.
You've got me sold on it.
It's it's.
I was I was afraid we were going to get Rudy and we didn't.
Good.
Because it was.
I don't want to get into that.
I mean, the bond between and the chemistry.
These, you know, between Eckhart and Whitrock on that field.
Through the film was incredible.
Absolutely.
I mean, there are so many scenes where Eckhart just said,
I care about this kid so much.
And you really felt like this is the guy's second dad.
Yeah.
I came down to it.
I mean, there's great chemistry between all the cast.
I, I, I cannot find really anything wrong with the acting in this film.
When it came down to it.
I mean,
I thought it was just all incredible.
There was no real thing that just disappointed me when it came to the acting.
Yeah.
I mean, I really can't, I mean, I can't nitpick this thing deep enough to find something that maybe go,
uh, like it was really, really good.
Now my only concern for it is how it's going to play outside of the state of Texas.
Because it's very university of Texas centric.
Well, you said, Rudy, well, that's Notre Dame.
Yeah, but Notre Dame, Notre, University of Texas is not Notre Dame.
Notre Dame is the college, you know, the University of College football in North America.
Everybody knows Notre Dame and they know the traditions.
I mean, Eck, show time did their entire, the season on Notre Dame football.
Texas is a little bit different.
And I, I hope it plays well.
But I think there's maybe some people that don't get some of the things that are in it.
But don't let that hinder you from seeing it.
It's an excellent, excellent film.
It's very enjoyable.
Got a little, I gotta be honest, got choked up a little bit in a couple of points.
Are you kidding?
I mean, you celebrate with it with the actors.
You struggle with the actors.
It's well written.
I'm interested to learn more about the story itself.
I mean, there were certain moments in the film where I heard people sniffling.
Oh, absolutely crying.
And that was a full house, too.
Yeah, they packed that thing in and that, and the thing was,
it's, it's, it hit you, it made you cry but not good way.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't one of those words just like, you know, it makes you cry cry cry cry.
But it's not a bad cry.
Right.
Right.
You know, you feel for everybody in this film when it comes down to it.
I mean, real, real heartfelt.
Now, there are the, the iconic sports films of, like you said,
Hoosiers, Rudy, chariots of fire.
Will the speed in that level?
I don't know.
I think only time will tell.
And you're, you're absolutely right there.
I, I hope it does well.
And I think that the more, the more the word gets out there,
the more people will see it.
Don't, please go see this film.
Oh, yeah.
Definitely without it.
All right.
Are you, anything else you want to answer?
You've got me sold.
I definitely want to say it.
Should we go straight to the final analysis then?
Oh, let's do it.
The way we do the final analysis on this show.
We don't give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We don't give you letter grades, stars, whatever.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire is better than that.
Don and I are going to answer two questions.
Question number one is would you see this film again?
The answer is no.
Then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, it becomes how far are you willing to go.
Will you pay full price?
Twilight, Matt Nane, early morning on Saturday.
Wait for it in second run.
Venture out of the house.
Go get it from red box.
Treatment from Netflix.
Wait for, on cable.
Done.
Would you see this film again?
Well, that's a definite.
I thought you were willing to go.
I'm willing to go twilight on this.
Okay.
And the only reason I can't give it full price is because I wish so much they would
show what happened after the season ended.
That's my one.
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A great family night film.
And it's a good family film.
There's a little bit of language.
But outside of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would.
If I had kids, I'd show it to my 10 year old child.
And so see the film go to dinner after talk about it.
Because there's going to be a lot of talking up with people when they leave
this theater about how emotionally this thing is.
And I'm going to agree with Don.
I think Twilight's a good estimate for this.
It's.
You know.
Get that midday thing going on.
And then go have your evening together.
Especially if you've got kids that are in sports.
Oh yeah.
This is a good inspirational story, just about not giving up when you have that God
given talent.
Exactly.
Before we go though, again, we got to think Ashley, Ally, integrated marketing in our
best friends.
Our best friends for inviting us to this thing.
Thank you so much Ashley.
Alright, the movie is my All-American, written and directed by Angelo Pizzo.
Go check this out when it plays in a theater near you and by the time you hear this,
it will be available for you to go see in a theater near you.
And for first time director, he hit it out of the car.
Great job.
Yeah.
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