iTunes Exclusive Episode Breaking In

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Number 377, we're making it happen, brother.
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My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast, and I'm not a mother.
I've been called one with another couple of syllables after it, more than once, but no.
Joining me across the desk is the official fact checker of this show,
and a man who's always looking for his big break.
You may know him as fond, don't go, but his mama name him Don Ford.
I'm going to call him Don Ford. Welcome, sir.
I usually get breaks in those seams of my pants.
I understand that. I feel your pain.
Whatever we do, one of these things, it is to review something, and this is no exception.
Director James McTeague, writer Ryan Ingle,
they get together for breaking in.
First up, this whole thing?
Yes, I heard.
We got Thick Mary and the Urban Slifox.
Zining, zining, zining, zining.
We are so thankful to all of our vendors who give us the opportunity to check movies out
before they're released, so we can tell you about them, and you can make the best decisions
you can for your entertainment dollar.
Alright, so basically here's what you need to know.
The Gabrielle Union plays Sean Russell, a lady with two kids, and her father passes away,
but she has to go up to her father's old place, and basically sort out a lot of things
with the estate.
Kind of in a strange relationship, and she goes up there with her two kids.
And what they find out is that maybe Pops wasn't always on the up and up, and some guys
are coming around, and they want something that's in the house that she doesn't think
is in the house.
So they end up blocking her out of the house with the kids in the house, and then things
get a little weird.
I mean, did I cover it well enough for you to on?
Yeah, in the houses in the middle of the Boondocks in Wisconsin, back on 10 acres up here
wilderness with the nearest neighbor about a mile away.
Okay.
Alright, let's get into it.
But you saw this, I didn't, so you're going to tell me about it, sir.
If you go to my written review at www.corpastblogcast.com, that is our website.
It's kind of a film where it's the panic room part two.
The old Jody Foster film.
Yeah, it kind of had that kind of thing of evil people in the house looking for the
safe, and the house has like the shatterproof windows, because this guy was paranoid and
all that stuff.
Yeah.
So it kind of like, okay, this is the panic room part two.
But some of this suspension of disbelief, I hate to say it, kidnap, really?
Yeah.
Oh, man, there were those times where they first get to the house, where they first get
to the, and I love the Gabriella Union.
Okay, don't get me wrong.
Great actress.
Yeah, this is Dwayne Wade.
So how, when they get to the house the first time it's the middle of the day, and they
get there, and they're kind of just scooping out the big house that she kind of grew up
as a kid hasn't been there for years, and you know, it's how they walk into certain rooms
and they show certain items, or they walk into a certain area, and you see how something's
put down or dropped by accident, so you can see this set up, so what's going to be happening
later, where something's going to happen in this room, something's going to happen in
that room, and something's going to happen in that room, okay?
So unfortunately, it has that great predictability into it, okay?
Now, I will say this, the look of the film was very, very good.
Okay.
I did like it.
It had some beautiful nature shots out there, showing Wisconsin, and that kind of
look.
And the film basically takes place in the house, or in the woods around the house, 90 something
percent.
I mean, there's opening scene where you see the father pass away, which is a couple
of them driving to the place, but beyond that, and once they get there, they don't leave
that 5-10 acre estate, so it had a lot of beautiful looks, the angles of the house to make you
feel like you're in the house, kind of like the risky business kind of thing, how they
could go from one room to the next to the next to the next.
Was it a very home alone or no?
What do you mean by home alone?
We're like all the homemade booby traps and stuff, and there were really no booby traps
in this at all.
Okay.
So, the look I really enjoy, there's a couple of small CGI's, but that's about it.
When it comes to the acting, I love Gabriella Unis, she can play that strong lady, and in this
film, she plays this girl, yeah.
These guys have her kids inside the house, oh, don't you dare, and she's going to use
her mind now.
And the tagline for this is payback is a mother.
Yeah.
But when it comes to the acting, one person, I, the two kids, Alexis and Carr, okay,
they played the son and the daughter, for that age that they're at, I think they have
a bright future in acting, because they did good in their roles.
So, Aiona, Alexis, and Seth Carr.
Yeah, Alexis, she did really good as an older sister looking out for the younger brother,
but still, how they had the motions, the tears, and stuff like that, they did really,
really good.
Now, my shout out has to go to to Burke, Billy Burke, Billy Burke.
He plays the leader of the four guys coming in, the quartet of the evil people kind of.
He's that guy who kind of has that cool, calm, and collected, but I'm an evil dude.
I think things out, I'm going to not get excited, but I can be an evil person at the same
time, kind of that diabolical, kind of like that smooth character, Hannibal Lectner, who
will slash it.
Yeah, slash you the next minute later.
But you even see him in his mindset when all of a sudden, the mom's there, they didn't
expect anybody to be there.
And now, okay, so now we have to go, we have to do this now, since we have the kids, we
have to do this now to try to control the mother and how he always has that mindset and
personality of thinking ahead.
But could stay cool, calm, and collected.
He never saw him lose his cool, but he could do some evil stuff in that thing.
He was that evil thinker, which I really, he did get in that, especially the accent
and everything.
Did great.
So the acting, I see no nominations next year, okay.
But over acting, I wasn't disappointed, it was fine.
See, fortunately in this film, there's another kind of quote I put in there, where there's
a lot of scenes where if you just use common sense, that's part of that suspension and disbelief,
that's just a little too much.
All right.
So it's kind of like, let's say you, you see in the films a million times where you,
you're in the big struggle with the big evil man, and you're able to hit him over the,
grab the poker from the fireplace and hit him over the head, vice on top of you, and he
falls over, and you just stop thinking that's going to be it.
It's not going to work.
No, no, no.
Violates the rules.
Yeah.
So, you know, it's like hit him about 20 more times, okay, until you see school parts
on the floor.
But no.
So you get those little really, come on, don't, where the, you heard, the crowd really got
into this one though, where you heard, no, no, no, no, stop, go down, they're just like
lady, don't, don't, don't finish the guy off or whatever.
So there was that kind of that little, just use the comments since I wish they would've
used in this.
Mm-hmm.
So that's one of the faults I found.
The film's about the right length, it's about 90 minutes, wasn't too long, the plot
kept me interested.
Official runs on one hour, 28 minutes, so yeah, I mean, I mean, if you had trailers, you'll
be at the theater right about two hours.
And the ending kind of felt a little bit flat, I thought, but compared to Panic Room,
this was a fail.
But what about compared to Kidnapped?
Um, better.
Okay.
I would say better, because there's not that too much to disbelieve, just that predictability
and it's like, use the common sense lady.
So there is some brutality in this, just to let you know, a bit of violence.
Yeah.
So there's a couple brutal scenes on this, so be careful on taking the kids on this one.
And they try to do those kind of cheat jumps, where you go around the corner in that little
scary, you hear the sound, you know, they try to get kind of cheap thrill, cheap scare
out this a few times too, which is kind of going really, really, but you know, the film
is what it is.
You know, there's only, I hate to say, there's only going to be one Panic Room.
But this was a different take, was it a home run now, the park, no?
But still when I go to the ballpark to see a game, yes, you know, so I did, I didn't
love it, but I didn't hate it.
So acting was good, the look was good, but it's just a kind of, please use some common
sense.
That'd be my biggest thing.
You know, better than me, sir.
He's the movies.
I know.
So any questions you have?
I think you've covered it if you're ready to get to the final analysis.
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 letter of grades, numbers, bullets, anything like
that.
I'm going to ask Don up to two questions.
The first question would be, would he see this film again?
The answer's no, then we're done here.
But if the answer's yes, then the follow-up question is, how far is he willing to go to
see it again?
From the best of the best of the worst of the best, here is the order.
Bull price of the theater, down to a Twilight show, down to a matinee, down to early morning
on the weekends, down to second one at the dollar theater, down to actually leaving your
house to go get it from red box, down to Netflix, down to cable.
Don, would you see breaking in again?
Yeah.
How far are you willing to go to do it?
It was on HBO.
I did.
So this little is, you wouldn't go out of your way.
But if it was there, nothing else was on.
Netflix or Netflix or they, if it's on the Saturday premiere on HBO, yeah, DVR, maybe
watch it again.
That kind of thing.
But I want to do the full, let's go to, you know, the Twilight and make that the big
movie of the week, we're going to go see it at the theater on the Saturday night.
No, I want to do that.
Sure.
It is James McTeeke directing breaking in.
All right.
For this whole thing.
Yes.
We got to take Mary and their bed.
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I'm still thinking you could put pretty polymer in this.
I mean, I haven't seen him, I already know.
I'm just saying.