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My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast, and I used to watch
some of these monster movies not as kid, not a lot of them, because that's kind of scared
easily.
Kind of silly.
Which is how I roll.
But I'm not a loaf of this particular episode.
Joining me across the desk as he tends to do from time to time is Michael Hoste, and
a man who's a lot more adapt to these monster movies than I am.
He is chat.
Welcome, sir.
I live in and next to him is the official fact-checker of this show, and a man who loves
his mummy.
You may know him as fondongo, but his mom and even taunt for it, I'm going to call him
Don for it.
Welcome, sir.
My mummy names me, Don.
I was waiting for it.
I'm disappointed in you, sir, that you didn't pick up on your-
It's really good.
I made the joke first, okay?
But I think my mom is a mother-day-guard.
That is a good.
Oh, my be a staker.
Whatever we do one of these, it is to review something, and this is no exception.
You, or would it might be?
Universal's dark universe has made its debut with their latest telling of the mummy.
For we start this whole thing.
Yes, sir.
We got to thank Mary Ann and everybody at Slyfox.
See me, see me, see me, see me, see me.
Thank you guys so much for letting us come see this.
Much less in 3D.
We love Slyfox, everybody.
They're great.
People we love mall.
Okay, so this was directed by Alex Kurtzman.
You know that names.
Yes, yes, I do.
We, it's perfect.
We discussed him at length a couple of weeks ago.
He is one of the duo responsible for making Star Trek relevance again.
But it's interesting that he's only got one feature film directing under his belt.
Yeah, he's mainly known as the screenwriter.
He did an episode of Alius, because you know, I love that show.
And, but this is his, is the shoulders that this is going to lie on as the dark universe
gets underway.
So let's just, we're going to set this up for you a little bit because this is not the
same tale that you may have remembered.
So basically, here's what you need to know, 5,000 years ago, there was a princess in Egypt.
And her name was Amanei, is Amanei, Amanei, Amanei, Amanei, I think, Amanei, I don't think
they have pronounced the tea.
Played by Sophia Bucella, who you might remember from Kingsman, the Secret Service.
She is heir to the throne, until her father has a wife who gives birth to a son, which
then makes him, he's going to be Pharaoh.
Well, she kind of wigs out and kills everybody, because you know, so she should do 24 people
do.
And so she garnered dark magic and things like that.
So they bury her way down deep into earth.
And then we fast forward to present day where we meet Nick Morton, played by Tom Cruise
and Chris Vail played by Jake Johnson.
They are literally soldiers of fortune, because they're in the service and they want,
they want the gold as friend of the show, L.A. would say.
Easy killer, clank.
So they stumble upon this tomb that they were literally, yeah, we crossed the tomb.
And wind up paired up with a scientist that's archaeologist named Jenny Halsey, played
by Annembel Wallace.
And what they do is they pretty much take her out of her tomb, bringing her back to life
and then she wants the complete her quest by bringing set the god of death back to life
through Nick Morton, thus causing mass panic, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
And she becomes a rule of the world a little less.
Yes, God.
But in order to do that, she needs to unite a knife and a stone together so that she can
bring set back to life.
Very, very indiana to own dish.
Little bit of indiana to owns, little bit of supernatural.
I thought it was fun.
I really thought this was fun.
This runs about an hour, 50.
And I told Chad coming out of the screening that I'm going to say something very, very
shocking during this review, so be prepared.
We're ready.
First of all, I'm just going to say up front, not even going to bear this.
This is the best use of 3D in a live action film.
I have seen in a very, very, very long time.
So what people don't understand is that 3D is meant to give depth to a picture.
It's not about them constantly going, woo, look at stuff, we're coming at you with.
It's about depth in the picture, which is very well done in a CGI animated style film.
But in a live action film, I don't know why people aren't doing it correctly.
This movie does it correctly, examples.
In the very beginning, when you're in a, when they find in London a bunch of archeologists
find a tomb where a bunch of knights from the crusades are buried.
And you can see how the entire frame is layered where you've got the tombs in front of you
and then some columns and then tombs behind those and then a columns and then the entrance.
Like there's depth, there's depth of the field to it.
When there's a chase scene as they're trying to leave the desert and there's a sandstorm
coming in, there's depth to it as the plane is flying towards the screen.
Never really pops out of the screen because it doesn't have to.
But to see you get to feel that distance between the plane and the sandstorm.
I'll give it all the births hidden at point.
Yeah, that was a beautiful thing too, you're absolutely right.
And one, the big sandstorm in London by the end of the film where it makes the sand
makes that kind of shape as long as I'm going to say.
Mm-hmm.
I think it really enhanced it there also.
So you ready for the shock?
What's that?
Don't you dare.
No, no, no.
Okay.
Because you, I'm great.
You don't know where I'm going with this.
Okay.
Watch gauge.
Oh no.
Okay, okay, okay.
And our 10, we have a new record by the time I looked at my watch for the first time.
We were an hour and 10 minutes into this thing.
We were past the halfway point.
That's almost unheard of.
It's never gone that far.
Never.
And if you know anything about me on this show, I'm very, very time conscious.
And what we do is when we talk about the watch gauge, just the first time I look at my
watch to see where we are.
The previous record was a half an hour sooner, 45 minutes, and our 10, I was shocked.
Wow.
I was like, okay, this bad boy is moving.
So this thing is 25 minutes to beat your record.
There are times where you got in a film where you look at it under 25 minutes.
There are times where I looked at my watch quicker than we've had this conversation so far.
The credits are still rolling.
I loved this film.
Courtney B. Vance is in this film.
You put Courtney B. Vance anything.
You have my interest.
You have Russell Crowe in this film and if you don't know who he is, I am telling you.
Just know that this is setting up a bigger picture for those of you that don't know.
You'll see this when you, when the film opens, there's the universal logo and then
you see where it says dark universe, which I love that logo by the way.
Just kind of keep it spinning and yeah.
What they're doing is they're remaking a lot of these older films.
Now the problem is we don't get the next one until Valentine's Day of 2019.
Wow, really?
There's a big stretch here to have.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, almost two.
Which one is the next one?
A bride of Frankenstein, which I don't even think of.
Or is it the invisible man?
I would think it would probably be the invisible man to see since that's already been cast.
Well, a couple of them have already been cast.
Well, but we know who, we know who the invisible man is going to be.
We don't know who the prize is going to be.
We know who allegedly Frankenstein's monster is going to be.
No, that's, that's been verified from what I'm in told.
Well, they said Frankenstein.
I've yet to, I've yet to really see if he's going to be the doctor or the, or the creature.
No, I'm told, okay, yeah, no.
Pride of Frankenstein, February 14th, 2019, directed by Bill Condon.
Bill Condon.
Shoot.
I should know who that is off the top of my head.
But this is how much bigger picture they're going to get the bride of Frankenstein.
You're going to get the creature from the black lagoon invisible man, van Helsing, the Wolf
Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, and the hunchback of Notre Dame, which is
then going to all culminate together in an Avengers style finale.
And I'm going to say, I love this film, and this is a great way to kick it off.
Let's set the bar for the rest of them.
What are you thinking, sir?
It was a strong, it was a strong start.
It kind of got a little predictable.
By the way, Bill Condon directed the two-part finale of the Twilight saga, he directed
Dream Girls, Kinsey, Gods and Monsters.
Okay.
It's in good hands.
So it's Gens on the Wolf.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
But no, it got a little predictable, but...
But that's what those films do.
I know, I know.
You know, you know, you know, going into a film like this, there is a formula, right?
It does that form you the well, and there's a couple of nice little curveballs in there, too.
There are some really cool easter eggs in it, really cool easter eggs, or some of that
you and I hadn't even talked about.
Yeah, but I will even remember the one.
Oh, no, there were some other than one.
I haven't even done the research on everything else.
When you walk into a certain doctor's laboratory, there's more than one.
Oh, yeah, no.
Well, to me, the easter egg, I'm thinking of as a lot more subtle than those were.
You're talking about the...
During the fight.
Yeah.
Okay, no, no, I'm talking about before that.
No, I'm like, when he's walking through there.
Oh, yeah.
I saw those.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
You see this.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
So there were some really cool nods.
Just do a couple of different times.
Right.
In the film.
There's a couple of really cool nods to what's coming.
Is there anything more fun than watching Russell Crochew scenery?
They're just...
He does it.
He does it so well.
You know, the last time he chewed that much scenery, he was Joe.
Yeah, he was Joe.
And I'll tell you something else.
His portrayal in this film.
Oh, yeah.
I'm not giving away who he's playing, but he's very integral to what's happening.
But the role he plays to be able to do that in the manner in which they did it.
Not only works visually, but from a performance standpoint.
Brilliant.
Yeah.
Very understated when he didn't go over the top.
Just enough for you to understand what was going on.
If you put Reed Myring, www.cobaspacast.com, that's our way out of the sound.
I said he was perfect for that character.
He was.
He was...
They...
Please keep him.
Oh, they're going to the film.
From what I understand, he is going to be...
He's the Lintacom and Threat.
He's the Lintjpin.
He's like the Samuel Jackson of the...
Yeah, he's the Nick Fury.
He's the Nick Fury.
Yeah.
I also put on my ring view that...
Where's that looking?
www.cobaspacast.com.
That's right, because that's our website.
Okay.
You're talking about the 3D and all that.
This had great CGI.
Oh, it's really good.
But you didn't think you were CGI, but you knew a CGI, but it didn't look like CGI.
Which is a common one.
Oh, absolutely.
And there was one scene which really blew me away by the end when they go underwater.
Oh, yeah.
The underwater sequence was awesome.
The visual of that underwater scene visually blew me away.
Somebody said that was beautiful.
Somebody said to me the other day, and somebody needs to check the math on this.
But this Tom Cruise now have the record for most films with an underwater scene.
In it.
In it.
How's looking at that going?
They shot that well.
The lighting.
Beautiful.
Beautiful scenes.
In the CGI with all the mummies.
I mean, there's what it reminded you of.
Waterworld?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There is a reaction.
That's all I can think of.
Waterworld?
Okay.
No.
But I just want... I'm amazed at how much people can hold their breath on.
Because I can't hold my breath that long.
I've said that for years about movies.
And he doesn't have something.
Come on.
You live down.
You have lungs the size of New Jersey.
What's going on over there?
But I will say this to one who really blew me away was Sophia.
Sophia but tell us.
She's great anyway.
But here's the thing.
Which I put.
She played the role.
Just like in Kingsman.
She didn't talk much.
She let her action do her talking.
And when she did speaking in that tongue, it was very intense.
Like you knew she meant business.
And it was about to get real.
So she does her acting and talking by not even talking.
And she does that so well in some of these films.
And that's why I think he used her again.
And let me say to...
He's a Star Trek.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Star Trek beyond.
Well, let me say this too.
If you see the name Tom Cruise and you think that's going to turn you away from this movie,
don't let it.
He's really good in this.
Yeah.
He's...
He knows there's a certain level of tongue and cheek to this.
So he doesn't overplay it.
Yeah.
He sits right in the pocket where he needs to in this.
And it's done very well.
He doesn't maverick it up.
Well, next year he's probably going to do it.
The one I loved.
One thing I liked about the simple lot was that it's serious.
It's the action.
There's action all the way through the film.
Mm-hmm.
It moves.
It moves, brother.
I'm going to tell you what.
But it's not overkill in the action.
But it doesn't do the film.
But it has a seriousness.
It has a historic, it has a suspense.
But it has the comedy.
Uh-huh.
And you know who gets my shining star.
I believe in your review, you said Jake Johnson, who plays Chris Veil.
Which is where?
That's at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
Which is our website.
You would know Jake Johnson.
He's on a new girl.
It's for a lot of people know him from.
But...
He's a Jurassic World, too.
But...
Oh my God.
He was.
I totally forgot about that.
Okay.
Well, it's in 21 Jump Street.
But...
But...
How he added that comedy to it.
He did.
He added the perfect kind of the...
He's the good comedic side of...
A kick of...
A bit more important.
Yes.
Tom Cruise's character.
He...
That role reminded me very much of...
His name escapes him right now.
But the guy that was...
David Notton's best friend in the American Warl from London.
But what he did, the bathroom?
Oh, that wasn't that...
I want to say it was it...
Was it Griffin Dunn?
Yeah, Griffin Dunn.
Okay.
It was like that voice in his head.
Yeah.
I was really annoying at him.
Like...
And playing almost in the exact same fashion.
But I loved how like in the bathroom scene he added that comedy.
And there...
Even though it was kind of like what in the heck.
But it's still funny.
Or that one scene kind of by the end of his...
Do this so we could get out of here so I could be done.
You know?
Just that little...
You know, the little sidekick kind of thing.
So I think he really...
His role really impressed me.
I thought he really added a ton to this film.
Even though he sat in a...
A lot.
He has about five scenes...
Maybe...
Except after the beginning.
He's only there about my...
Five ten minutes after the...
Beginning scenes.
But just enough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Anything else you guys want to add before we get to the final analysis?
I came into this film fully prepared to not like it.
Really?
I really did.
I was like...
They're going to mess this up.
And I don't know why.
It's every time I saw the trailer.
My god.
Something about it just didn't sit well with me.
Until the very last trailer I saw like a week before we screen this.
Maybe there's hope for this.
Walked out pretty much satisfied.
I was too.
I really really enjoyed this film.
I mean, you're the monster guy.
You both are the monster guy.
I mean, this is pretty much my jam.
Are you happy?
Yes.
And it's not...
And you guys know...
It's...
Well, Dr. Brown in the show.
I don't do scary well.
This is not a scary film.
It's a...
There's a couple of scares in it.
It's...
It's no scary than the Brendan Fraser.
Right.
Take on it.
But the...
The scares they use though.
You know it's coming.
Yeah.
So it's...
It's very well telegraph.
So it's not one of those.
We're going to try to make you pee on yourself.
Kind of thing.
No.
It's a thrill ride more than it is.
A couple of scenes.
I took, you know, my girlfriend fainted this.
And there's a couple of scenes like with the...
Little...
Little guys running around.
I kind of like rubbed her with the little fingers on that.
And kind of got her going, you know.
That'll get you punched.
Yeah, but...
You're not a smart man.
But...
She thought it's bloody, but...
She could get knocked out.
But...
She...
She doesn't like scary.
Or she does.
She gets rolled...
But it was...
Just a perfect, not too scary.
But add a little suspense.
Which I think she really loved too.
Which made this film really, really good.
I was...
I was impressed too.
I really was.
And it's one of those...
Half fun with it.
Absolutely.
It's not going to get the...
You know...
Oscar for...
Bessimentography.
I mean not well.
I mean...
I mean...
I mean...
Screen riding.
Yeah.
You know, it's...
Come on.
You can still leave the brain at the door.
Have some fun with it.
It's a...
It's a...
It's a...
It's a...
It's an adventure film.
Let's just get to the final analysis.
Just get right to it.
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 letter grades or numbers or stars.
Or...
It's like...
Life like a jewels.
Whatever.
Not your wife.
Just actual...
Thank you for that.
You're welcome.
We're going to ask two questions.
One is...
Would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, the follow-up questions.
How far are you willing to go?
And here's the spectrum from best of the best to worse of the best.
First run at the theater.
Twilight.
Matt and A.
Early morning.
Second run at the dollar theater.
Actually, leaving your house to go get it from red box.
Streaming it on Netflix or waiting for it on cable.
Chat, let's start with you.
We'll give you the honors in this one.
Would you see this again?
Oh yeah.
How far are you willing to go?
Like you said, this is the kind of film that...
That Dolby Cinema is we're made for.
Oh yes.
And it's also getting an IMAX 3D release as well.
That too.
So it's...
You're kind of doing yourself a disservice if you don't see this in a fully stock theater.
This is the kind of film where I think you'll get all the bang for your buck that you could possibly ask for.
So you said full press?
Yeah.
Do you say 3D?
Yeah.
Full price 3D?
Oh yeah.
Do I want to see it again?
Yeah.
How far do you want to go?
I would say like that after new Twilight kind of thing.
2D or 3D?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, talk about it.
I would...
Yeah.
If I had to give the yes no.
I'd say do the 3D like you're saying.
Because really...
And what I thought was really cool isn't the beginning when they're in the tomb and they're going
in fact between the archaeology and like you're watching a TV news program.
And I don't know if you guys noticed this.
But when you were supposed to be watching TV, it was like a 2D image.
Yeah.
There was no depth to it.
Yeah.
And you really cut that out.
Telling you.
I dig into these things.
Okay.
So you're saying twilight 3D?
Yeah.
I would see this again.
I would pay for IMAX 3D or Dolby Cinema 3D in this.
Full price?
Absolutely.
It is so much fun.
And it's something that I would go by myself but to go with a group of a bunch of people.
And I'll be together.
And I'm sure that there...
I mean there's no doubt online.
This will be a blue right purchase when it comes out too.
Because this is one step in a much bigger picture.
Yeah.
And I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes from here.
It is Alex Kurtzman directing the re-telling.
Is that even read it?
I'm holding a re-telling.
A reimagining.
Of the mummy.
For what we have this thing?
Yes, sir.
Got to take Mary in.
Everybody at Slyfox.
See you.
See you.
See you.
See you.
Thank you guys so much.
We love everybody at Slyfox.
Great people.
Thank you very much.
Big fan buddy.
All right.
Let's do the flux.
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She was with us.
She loved it.
Jeals Walmic.
She was with it.
She dug it.
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