iTunes Exclusive Episode Anthropoid

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than I have this year. It's going to be a close race right now. You may know
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welcome sir. You probably shut up a more and it's going to be close right now but
screenings were about the same. I'm thinking about I think I'm at 47. I'm almost
to that because I wasn't sure I get past 52 because that's one a week but don't worry
about your spilling because mine's nothing compared. Whatever we do one of these
things it is to review something this particular episode is no different today. We are
here to review the latest film from director Sean Ellis so you might remember from
a few years back about 10 years ago now did a movie called cashback very small
indie film. This one is called Anthropoid. For what's up this whole thing?
Yes, we got to think Julie and her band Sly Fox for the same name.
Zanyningning. Zanyningning. Zanyningning. We can't be the only people that get
that to that. But we're such fans and those guys. Such fans are our friends
and Sly Fox. Well it's time for another World War II movie. It's not Chandler's
list. No, it's not safe at pride right. The name Anthropoid is actually the name
of an operation that a bunch of people from the resistance parachute in on their
way to try to assassinate. Basically the third guy in the hierarchy of the
third rank. His name is Rhine Hart Hydric SS General. He's a good, he's the
architect behind the final solution and there's only one guy between him and
Hitler. And they call him the butcher of Prague for they do. So Jamie Dornin, who
you might know as I believe that's Christian Gray isn't not from the 50 shades of
gray films. Oh, let me check on that one. And Sly and Murphy, who you might remember
from the movie begins as the scare crow. But no, yeah, it's from. They played two
agents that parachute in behind enemy lines basically because they're going to
assassinate this guy. And they're helped out by a lot of people, including Toby
Jones, one of my favorite actors. So you might remember from some Marvel films. He
also played Alfred Hitchcock, and it would be called the girl. Yeah, I remember that. Very,
very good. There's a lot of people that you've never heard of in this movie. Because I
think what would you try to do here is we'd really try to shine else, try to
really cast people that had just give it a genuine feel. Yeah, culture, all
there are the accent, the top there. And this is a solid two hours. From a
performance standpoint, I have no issues with this film at all. No, I've
thought I thought everybody played their their role strong. Dornin, Dornin and
Murphy had really great chemistry between the two. Absolutely. You could tell
like their characters were very, very close and they conveyed that very,
well, yeah, totally shot beautifully. Yes, I went to first start off the first two
three minutes when it starts, it gives that little history of what's going on. Or
a little history lesson to try to get, getting that mood of knowing what's
going on. I thought that was very good. You know how the writing came up and
said, you know, check over Slovakia was taken without a bullet, all that stuff. I thought
that was really good. But this is two hours. Yeah. Downtown New York City at
five o'clock on the Tuesday goes faster than this film. And I really, I mean,
I thought about it. I've had some time to think back and I thought maybe it
was my frame of mind, maybe because I'd had a long day. No, this this film
was incredibly slow. I agree. Now, I don't know, but let me go ahead and say one
thing. I thought the first 10 15 minutes was great. Peace. Well, I really love what
they did when talking about up to the point where they get into the city. Yeah.
Okay, I see we're very good there. I thought the last 45 minutes of the film were
very good. Myself personally. Okay. I thought you gave it, you know, good
ending. It was that part of the film was based, was based well. But about the
quarter to the halfway mark, it could have been five minutes instead of 30.
Here's the weird thing for me. Yeah. It's incredibly slow. Yes. But from a
story standpoint, I don't know how much fat you could trim out of this. That's where
it gets weird for me. Because I don't know that trimming fat is going to improve
it. It managed to prove it a little for me. Because I understand how they're planning
this, the assassination attempt and all that other stuff. But that was a lot of too long
in a lot of unnecessary stuff they put in there. Be personally. It just seemed like the
climax of there's a lot of where is the chase and how can I cut to it for me. Yeah.
But there was also once we cut to the chase, the chase took too long. You thought that.
Yeah. I mean, well, you know, reality, the ending thing, like they said, was about
six hours. Right. And they said that afterwards. But I didn't need it to feel like six
hours. For me, I disagree. I didn't see it that way. But that's what we're here for.
Right. Exactly. But go ahead and it's a lot more.
He's like, I'm putting my upcoming written review of WWW that clubhouse podcast.com. That
is our website. Eventually he got there. Yes. But I just thought, you know, about the quarter
of the halfway market could have a lot of 90% could have. If that did, if they did that,
I thought it would be a way better film. Shot felt, you know, like you said, beautifully look
beautiful. Really historically very well on the history of the props and the scenery
and all that other stuff and only those certain weapons and everything else. And, you know,
there are a couple of brutal scenes. And of course, there's brutality because you're talking
with war and everything like that. But just that middle part really killed it for me.
Can I tell you what else was weird for me? Was that? It was so slow pace, but there were also
so many different directions the story went that I don't think that I ever got the
effort. Well, hold on, let me finish saying. I don't think I ever got the opportunity to have
to feel one way or another about any of these characters. It was like they just kind of shoved
everybody in different places and like I didn't have enough time to root for the good guys and
I didn't have enough time to hate the bad guys and the good guys that became bad guys and the
bad guys that became good guys. I didn't care. And that was weird for me because if you're going
to take that kind of pacing, give me something. Give me some kind of emotional connection that I
can have. I'll give you an example. This probably hit the nail. All right. There's a character
who we meet for the first time in the city.
Okay. Okay. And this person passes away. Okay. People die in this film that is true.
But they try to make it such a big deal, but I didn't feel like it's a big deal.
You want talking about it? No, I hear. And that's a priming example for exactly. That's the
want to feel something for this person. And all of these people, but I just didn't.
For a movie that slowly paced, I should feel more than I do. And it's just such a weird thing for me.
But I can't like razzy it either. You know what I mean? I thought it was,
I would have liked to have seen more about the planning of it and how they got to the point
where they executed the plan. It was just, it was like, we will meet the day after tomorrow. There
was a lot of that. There was a lot of the day after tomorrow going on here. And then we're just there.
And it was like, if you're going to take this kind of time, tell me the story. And the other
problem I had was some of the accents were so thick in this that some of the dialogue got muddy.
Where I was kind of was really having the concentrate to hear what they were saying.
Well, when they were playing the assassination attempt, they showed it in a movie, but they did it so wrong.
Well, we have to follow him here. And there's the map there. And there we go.
You'd be in there. You'd be there. It was just weird for me.
It ended and I was like, that was a thing. You know, there was never a moment where I was just like,
there's the moment that there's what I can point to. I probably know the answer.
Watch 10 minutes. Okay. And then every 10 minutes after that.
There were times I was like, okay, we should be here. And we were like 15 minutes behind that point.
That was like, oh my god. I don't see it as bad as you do, but I a lot can't been kind of it.
It did it. But the weird thing is even if they could stuff out of it, I don't know that it
would have made the film better. It would have made for me. They could have made better use of the time.
Yeah. I think you're, there's some time management issue. What's up with the word is is that
there's a lot of good stuff in this film. There really is. I was acting the photography,
the look. I mean, it's the script collapses under its own weight. Perfectly said.
And I hate to say that because I love the people involved. And I think Sillian Murphy just hasn't
found that project that's going to launch him into the superstar. And he deserves to be in
outside of that man begins, but good Lord, that was over a decade ago. But let me say the assassination
attempt, even that kind of look confusing when it hit. Yeah. You're like, hold on. Where's that?
Where's the turn into a game of mouse trap? What did I miss? There's a lot of good stuff,
but something just kills it. It's like when you bake a cake, but you actually put salt in there and
stand sugar. Oh, I mean, it looks beautiful. You can make the most perfect cake, but if you put
salt in there and stand sugar, and it looks beautiful, it's a frosting's perfect. I mean,
it looks something now beyond the cover of, you know, food and food magazine incorporated food,
whatever you name it. Bon appetit. Why not? Bon appetit. Okay. You, and then all of a sudden,
you cut into that cake, you take it by and it's salt instead of sugar. Everything else of the
cake is perfect. It's just, yeah. I guess it just kind of ruins the whole cake in that way.
And it's just, I saw the trailer for this and I was like, okay, this looks like it could be a thing.
And then it just wasn't really a thing. Like, and I can't say like the best parts are in the trailer.
And my part is, but I did hate it, but it was too long. Right. There's a lot of stuff I love.
Yeah, so I'm still conflicted on it. And when two hours is too long, you have a problem.
All right, so we ready to put some final analysis on this? Yeah, let's get it done.
The way we do the final analysis on the show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down,
but our grade stars, green, clovers, blue diamonds, whatever. We're actually going to ask two questions,
because our audience whom we affectionately refer to is the empire. They want us to go deeper.
That's how we roll. Question number one, is what do we see this film again? If the answer's no,
then we're done here. The answer's yes. Then we, where did we rate it on a spectrum?
There's your word for the day. Spectrum. The top of the spectrum would be full
price at the theater. From there, we go down all the way. We go down to Twilight, down to Matinee,
down to early morning, down to second run at the dollar theater, down to Red Box, down to Net
Flux, down to Cable. Dawn, would you see this film again? I'm going to give it a yes.
All right, how far are we going to go? I'm going to do the HBO. And I'm going to absolutely agree with you.
If I'm clicking around and there's nothing else going on in the end scene was on, yeah,
watch it. Yeah, yeah, but I take it. You're not going to buy the DVD. I'm not going to go out of my way.
You're not going to buy the DVD for the extended version. Probably not.
It is anthropoid. It is directed by and covered by Sean Ellis. Before we had this thing,
we got to think Julie there. But it's live Fox. See any, thank you guys so much.
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