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Is the official fact checker of this show, and a man who some day will reach his golden
years, but he doesn't want to do it just yet.
You may know I'm his fun, Don Go, but his mom and even Don Port, I'm going to call him
Don Port.
Welcome, sir.
It'll be a while.
What is golden years?
75?
I thought golden was 50 and diamond was 70.
Yes, right.
Yeah, that's 50.
So cool.
It's like about five more years.
I'm getting there myself.
Whatever we do one of these things, it is to review something on this particular
episode.
It's no different.
Normally known as a writer, now he's a director, Steven Gaggen, the movie is called
Gold.
For what we start this whole thing?
Yes, sir.
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We love him.
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What we have to do?
It's genius.
But we love him.
There are best friends for reason.
This is a film that is based on a true story.
It takes place in the late 80s, most of it, a little bit in the early 80s, mostly in
the late 90s, the 70s.
It is the story of Kenny Wells.
This is a man who inherits a mining operation from his father, played by the great
great team Nelson, and not doing well.
So in a last ditch effort, after his dad passed correct.
So as a last ditch effort pun intended, he decides to take a chance and go to Indonesia
after having a dream.
To meet up with a geologist, played by Edgar Ramirez, he needs a Michael Acosta, who
believes he knows where there's a huge mother load of gold.
And with his very last dollar, he goes out there and finds gold.
And that's kind of as bad as deep as I want to go into this thing, because after that,
the roller coaster leaves the station, and here we go.
This film is a very interesting conundrum for me, because I mean, you've got a great
cast.
You've got, again, Matthew McConaughey, all right, all right, Edgar Ramirez, who you
might remember from hands of stone, the movie that came out last year, also Bryce Dallas
Howard, Corey Stoll, who you've seen a lot of Marvel films, Tony Kebel, who played Dr.
Doom in the last fantastic forest in this.
We mentioned Craig T. Nelson, you've also got a lot of Bruce Greenwood, who has voiced Batman
and a lot of animated films as well.
I mean, this thing's going to sound cast to it.
And I just spent most of this film, which by the way, runs right at two hours.
You can take, yeah, right out there.
I spent a lot of, a lot of this film wondering if Gagan spent a lot of time watching American
Hustle and getting notes from David O. Russell, because it had that same feel, but it
never got to that place for me.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, the look, that feel, I know what you're saying, it had that kind of, if you go to
my written review, www.coupasplacas.com, as our website, not to say so, no website, you're
acting sure enough.
The thing is, it had to look like it was filmed in at 80s.
It takes place in 80s, but there's a lot of you watching those shows that were filmed
around that time.
You go back to the, some of these networks that show these, like TJ Hooker, yeah, some
like they did.
Yeah, they kind of look and feel like you were watching a show from that time, which
put you in that mindset of that.
And for me, I, I guess it, it just never got there.
Like I'm not saying that this is a bad film.
I just, I really wanted it to have its own identity, and I don't know that it ever
did.
Does that make sense?
In a way.
For me, I like the plot.
There's one big twist at the end.
I didn't really see coming, which is like, we said about the climax of the film.
Yes, because there's a couple of nice little turns to taste, but I know which one you're
talking about.
But, um, it, it, you knew it was two hours, still I like the plot, but it just seemed a little
long, like maybe 10, 15 minutes could have been cut out.
For me, it kind of weighs itself down in the middle.
Like the first time I looked at my watch, I was going to ask 35 minutes.
Well, so the first act really carries very well.
Yes, it does.
In the middle, it kind of weighs itself down, because I, I think what they're trying, what
getting tried to do here, was he really wanted you in well, this head.
But I think he took too long too long doing it.
Like, I got it.
Like, he's a guy that's willing to take risks, because with big risk, come big reward.
But I just felt like I was getting kind of beatin' over the head with it a little bit.
One thing that I put in the same review, more than that, WWE, WWE, that's the
cool best podcast.
That's right, because that's our website, okay, is McConaughey himself as an actor.
In this film, he gained 45 pounds of weight.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah, 45, and you could tell that is not prosthetics people.
Yeah, that's a real, and there's a lot of underwear shots, and you look like he looks
like he's so age.
It's not like the thin guy from some of these, but he committed to the bit.
Yes, he did.
I'll give him that.
100%.
And in the 80, 90% of the time in this film, he either has a drink or a cigarette in his
hand.
Oh, his vices were there.
Yes, they were there.
They overdid it.
But, like, that's a cigarette I want to do.
Alright, alright, but with him, it is character.
He played it so well this guy who, you know, had some good opportunities and it's just kind
of an idiot because he's bullheaded and let's just like get thrown away.
It's kind of in that situation where, you know, you got this idiot where it's just like
here.
Let me give you 100 bucks just because I like you and then go and do you know what?
I should take the 100 bucks and buy a 100 of those powerball tickets and I'll get
the big thing.
You know, he's squanders a lot, even though he's given some good opportunity to see
that some people would just go, what might.
You know, like, the first sign was his dad's business, a successful business seven
years later, it's in the gun.
Well, but you also have to understand that, and they explain this in the film a little country
goes into a huge recession, like right after his dad passed away, understand it.
So he has to scale down so they end up basically running their office out of a bar with
a bunch of bottles.
But by his business practices, you could tell his dad was the smarts and he's a real
player.
He's definitely a risk kick.
Yeah, business wise, he's maybe about four can't show to a six pack, you know, when
he comes to smartness in some ways, but he takes the risk, you know, but then when he
gets those risk, it shows in one scene, I'm going to say the board room scene, okay?
And where it's this big possibility, and because of his pride, and I'll just say name,
he throws out a way, you know, so it's kind of like his, he's a bullhead.
It's like, you're giving some great opportunities, but he plays the part so well, you respect
the level of integrity, but at the same time, you're like, dude, really?
Like, I don't know, it's, I, I, I, I just for me, like, McConaise always create, but the
problem that McConaise has, and I think it's the same problem that Jared Lotto's
going to have because of the same film.
They were both so amazing and Dallas Buyers Club, yes, that they're going to be chasing
those roles the rest of their career, that McConaise, anything he does from this point
forward is going to be compared to that role, anything that Lotto does from this point
forward is going to be compared to that role, because it was such an, an amazing performance.
And it won't let Owen Oscar, yeah, they deserved it.
I mean, McConaise won the Oscar for Best Actor, but, you know, I, I kind of disagree
because I'm still always going to have that, all right, all right, I don't know.
So I'm going to have days and confuse your head.
Yeah, so it's, it's, it's so many roles that he has done, but it's just him, and I'm not
going to put him up to this bar.
I mean, everybody knows, I'm using the public in general.
Yeah, yeah, I, some may do that, but I still say, he's,
going to give it his all every time, I mean, 45 pounds and a great, and a great supporting
cast here, Bryce Dallas Howard, who I can watch read the phone book, always great,
Ramirez placed off of him very, very well, great chemistry together, they play that
Ramirez is a great actor to begin with, Bruce Greenwood's a guy that it shows a little
versatility in this playing a South African geology expert who has made a lot of money
in gold as well.
It's a great cast, and there's great performances.
This movie just didn't, wow, me, like I was hoping that it would.
I kind of feel that, because of that dragging, I thought, I don't know that it's, if
it's the pacing, or if I didn't feel like the story was strong enough, I really can't tell
you what it is that would make this film go from a good film to a great film.
If they kept that kind of flow and mindset from the first hour into the second, if they
would handle the second hour a little bit better and kept it in that kind of feel of
the first hour.
I mean, like the shots, the jungle shots were beautiful, but look what's beautiful.
The pot really kept you going, but then I think it kind of put it turned on what's going
on with this big project versus the second hour is like, let's try to get into the
life of a con of hay, and I don't think they hit it on that.
I couldn't understand what you would say that or the life of the camera, it wasn't more
right here, let's tell the story of this big, big deal, this big event, and it also
was more the study.
It also went from a linear story to starting to jump timelines, which was kind of weird
for me, because about halfway through, we jump forward to him being interviewed and then
they start doing flashbacks again, I kind of felt like you should have committed one
way or the other.
They should have tell the story linearly or do the story completely in flashback.
If they would have done that flashback, if they would have done that a couple more
times throughout, and a little earlier.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, even at the beginning, they have to first see what's
him in that hotel room talking with a tape recorder, and they had it maybe once every
twenty minutes.
Right, like in the trailer, you kind of know what's coming.
Yes.
And if you don't know anything about the story, I mean, because this is based on the true
story.
I don't know what's coming.
I didn't know what's coming, sad scene the trailer, so I got a new, you know, about
the different.
When the big climate hit, I was like, oh, oh, oh, that I didn't know that I didn't
know.
And the ending, because then I said, I'll twist to it.
Yeah.
I guess I was about that big twist is just smooth and unsmooth, that's what I'm trying
to say.
What's that being spoiled or free?
So I think we're on that same page there, is there anything else you want to talk
about for what we do the final analysis on this?
I still think the cast did good.
Look beautiful.
I still like the plot, but it's just, it's he ball.
It does weigh itself down a little.
It or some points where it gets a little complicated, I thought, but not too bad.
I didn't see that.
I read that in your review.
I didn't necessarily see that, but I could see how you'd get there.
Because all the business deals and this and that and that and this and all, it can get
a little complicated, I thought, but not bad.
Okay.
All right.
So we ready to put some rating on this.
Let's do the way we do the final analysis on the show.
We're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We're not going to give you a number of golden nuggets or anything like that.
What we're going to do is we're going to ask two questions.
Question number one is, would you see this again?
If the answer's no, we're done here.
If the answer's yes, then the follow-up question to that is, how far are you willing
to go to see it again?
Because I'll tell you the gauge of interest that we have in this film after watching it.
The spectrum goes from best to worst, full price at the theater.
Twilight, Matt and A, early morning, second run at the dollar theater, red box, Netflix,
cable.
Done.
Would you see this film again?
Yep, first.
How far you won't go to do that?
I'm going to recommend it as a Twilight.
So almost, I mean, no, I mean, I'm sorry, Matt and A.
Okay.
So kind of in the middle there.
Yeah, Matt and A, because the acting was so good by McConaughey, I thought.
I would see it again, but this would be one I think I'd wait for on cable.
Yeah, one thing I did want to add, which I forgot for anything else I've had, one
thing I like was the historically correct sets.
Oh yeah, like when they get that new office and they go in, the carpet is like this ugly
blue from the 80s.
Oh yeah.
Do you want to say it?
We all had it.
Yeah, it's just like, oh, we got your were the carpet.
And by no stretches, again, this is not a bad film.
I just don't know that I'd go out of my way to watch it again.
If it's on cable or something, and I'm clicking the channel, so I'm not going to stop
down this for a minute.
Still, there's a lot of qualities outside of saying, go for patney.
It is gold directed by Steven Gagan got the McConaughey got the Ramirez got the Bryce
Dallas Howard.
So we got to do the Arana Ratter right to add a lot of integrated marketing.
Are some of our favorite people know.
Josh, we love y'all.
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