iTunes Exclusive Episode Love Simon

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My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast, and I'm going to
taste something we're about to review a film.
I got to see way ahead in time.
But luckily for you, I have a photographic memory, so we're going to be okay.
But I'm not alone as we travel around the table, it is my co-host, and a man will probably
be asking a lot of questions over the next few minutes.
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Welcome, sir.
I will indeed.
Next to him is the official fact checker of this show, and a man who much like me braved
the elements for you to see this film.
You may know him as fond, don't go, but as mama named him, don for it, I'm going to call
him don for it.
I didn't do good in chemistry.
And there we go.
Next to him is Lady of the House, and a woman who also braved the elements for you, and
she did it quicker than the rest of us, because she got to the theater first.
Hello, I had my canoe in my paddle through the deluge.
And rounding out the days as the newest member of the crew, and a man who braved no elements
because he wasn't there for this particular screening.
But he still wants to know all about it, Alex is here.
I'm mostly here for moral support.
That's fair.
Whenever we do one of these, it is to review something, and this is no exception.
It's time to review a very highly anticipated, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
very, highly anticipated film called Love Simon.
Before we start this whole thing, first off, you take an English lesson from me, but we
got a round you too long.
Nobody would be that crazy.
But we don't think our best friends, you ready to sing?
And I need a great marketing, like Josh and the crew for the invite.
There were multiple screening to this, and the crew, the cast was actually in town here
in Dallas, as we're getting ready for anticipating the opening of this film, had a great time
I saw.
I was unable to make that event, but it looks like they had a great time meeting and greeting
and shaking hands and kissing babies and all that good stuff.
Let's talk about it.
This basically is taken from a very, very popular book.
This is the story of Simon Spire, played by Nick Robinson.
And he is a high school student getting ready to start his senior year.
He's got a great life.
He's got a great family, his parents, played by Jennifer Garner and Josh.
Do me.
Thank you very much.
He's got a sister, who he loves and loves him and she's really into cooking, so he eats
a lot of her culinary creations, good, bad, or indifferent.
He's got great friends, but there's a little something going on that only he knows.
And when he's perusing his high school message board, he finds that there's somebody else
anonymously struggling with the same thing he is.
And that is he is trying to bring himself out of the closet.
And that's really as deep as I want to go, because there's a lot going on here.
And to tread any further into this thing is going to lead to spoilerville.
And we're going to stop short of that.
Let's just get right into this thing.
What a great movie.
Oh, yeah.
I very much enjoyed this film.
It's one of those, it runs about an hour 50.
So it's not too long, not too short.
There's other people that you might recognize in this as well.
Let's see.
We've got Alexandra Ship is in this.
And you've also got the kid who plays Wally West on the flash and minor spoiler alert.
Now legends of tomorrow.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay.
Did you have another?
No.
Okay.
I punch down.
Remember?
Oh, that's true.
You punch out the wrong time.
Legends is great.
What I'm afraid of with people in this film is if they're going to see the subject matter
and it might turn some people off into those people, I would say rethink that plan.
Because this is not just a film about someone coming to terms by coming out of the closet.
This really is a universal tale of learning who you are, being comfortable with who you
are.
Especially in a time, the late teens where there's a lot going on and you're just trying
to keep up with it all.
And I think this film conveys that, staying true to its material, but conveying those
universal messages as well, I thought was really good.
I kind of, I don't like what you're saying about that.
And try to get the point across saying be open minded.
Very unfortunately, I'm going to, I put my written video, www.kobaspodcast.com.
That's our website.
And we don't get political in the show.
No, we don't do it personally.
You know, very, very, make a point of that, but there will be some people out there with
some conservative views that will not like this because of me.
And that's what I said.
And for those people, I would say, look past it and see the more universal themes here.
Because it's not like, it doesn't like crack you over the head with it.
Yeah.
It's like a plot device that recognizes what it is, but also respects it as a universal
theme.
And there's going to be some people who can bash it because it talks about a person coming
out who never see it.
Just because they're part of that political view, you just said that, but I really, like
you were saying, this talks about a major issue.
And when, on my review, I'll also put that I have, where is that, www.kobaspodcast.com.
And that's what I'm saying.
I got family members.
I got personal friends that are part of the LGBT community.
And I respect their view, but it's a major thing coming out is such a big thing.
And it's not just all, hey, I'm out in nothing.
It's all roses and daisies.
And there's tiny, tiny, there's, there's, there's, there's, so there could be some real
negative consequences of people coming out.
There is a lot of bad stuff that can happen.
It's not for some people, it might be good.
I'm not that big of an issue, but for some people, there are some major emotional issues,
family issues, societal issues of them coming out.
And this film handles it very very well.
And that's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
It's true to its source material, but it's so much more than, doesn't you know what I mean?
It's not just focused on this one part of it, though.
So even if, you know, you're kind of on the fence about where you stand on non-traditional
relationships, you will still enjoy this movie.
It is, there is nothing in your face.
There aren't adult-y adult-type moments.
They don't have any of that going on.
Now, there's still some fairly mature subject matter, isn't it?
There's a reason this is PG-13 versus PG.
Correct, correct.
I mean, and you need to be old enough to be respectful of this, but I'm just saying
there aren't certain scenes that, depending on your views, could make you even more
uncomfortable.
That type of situation isn't in this film.
And there's a lot of hidden humor, and it deals with your friendship and changing that
you're going through as you are at this point in your life and how friendships change and
being true to yourself and being true to your friends.
I really like the friendship part of it, really like you're saying it really.
And this really kind of shows at the kids today and what a lot of kids go through because
there are a lot of teens who are coming out today.
And it's what the friends go through of being, you know, just friendship and relationships
regular and non-conventional, it really hits a lot of issues that kids today will be
dealing with.
Oh, man.
That does a great.
It does a very, very good.
It's a very tasty, really done.
Acting is really good.
Uh-huh.
I really like acting.
I'm curious.
Did anybody on the podcast read the book that it was based on?
I did not.
Okay.
I do the one thing I know I can contribute to this is they actually were working under
the book title, uh, Simon versus the Homo sapiens agenda and remove that.
I was now that I'm hearing where they've done very well to make it digestible, to make
it more acceptable.
I wonder if that was just step one and I think I was part of the reason I think you
changed the title.
Is that title so wordy, you know, Scott Pilgrim versus the world, sticks to it.
But when you're getting into saying that many syllables together from a marketing
standpoint, it's easier when it's distinct and to the point.
And I think love Simon really, well, I was actually wondering if it was more
along the lines of the caveat that the word agenda comes with now.
I don't know about that.
No, and this made for actually it made for easy marketing.
If you see the signs and the billboards and they are marketing this thing very,
very well all over not only here in the Metroplex, but nationwide, the billboards
and the buses and the signs there in the theater, they're hysterical.
And I think the cast works, especially the kids work together very, very well.
That there's a natural chemistry there, even with the ones that are kind of on
the outside looking in, which becomes a major plot point as well.
You feel that tension when you're supposed to feel the tension, you feel the
camaraderie when you're supposed to feel the camaraderie.
And that's not just exclusive to one group of people.
Every group of people that intertwine, they all run that emotional gambit very,
very well because number one, it comes from a strong script and number two,
you have a strong cast and that worked really well for me.
I thought from a pacing standpoint, it looks great.
Yeah, I never, I never got fidgety.
Yeah.
And I like how it's the his relationship is a big one,
but it's one of multiple relationships.
So it's a relationship movie, not just the, you know, coming out thing on a acting.
I have to give two shout outs, please do.
My one, it goes first off to, uh, goes out to Hale and Rockwell,
the great Tony Hale, who you might know from as Buster from Arrested Development.
He plays a vice principal who just wants to be cool, so bad he can taste it.
And he cares for the kids here, but he's just so awkward that the kids are kind of,
they kind of keep him at arm's length.
And it's just, it's, it's he, he turns around.
I know where your other ones go into.
Yeah, yeah, you read my written review, which, well, I edited it, so I, yes, I wrote it,
but I'm gonna let you say the other one.
Miss Rothwell, who plays the Thomas Roth, though, is Albright.
She is the drama teacher.
And there's so many scenes where she looks at the cast and she's trying to make
a lemon's out of lemonade and she has no sugar to make the lemonade.
And she has no bones to talking about.
She is the teacher.
We all wish they could be and we all wish we had.
Well, and I think she's the teacher that all of us, like, if I were a teacher,
I would probably be that way because my patients would run very thin.
Like she just has these stick and move one liners that you really have to be careful.
Not to laugh too loud or you're going to miss the next one.
Like, yeah, I agree.
Both of those two really added a lot, even as, like, those are fringe cast members,
but they add a lot to this film as well.
And I really enjoyed their performance.
Any time anything else we want to talk about before we get to the final analysis.
I think we're good.
All right. And let's get to the final analysis.
The way this works is we're going to ask up to two questions.
Question number one is, would we see this film again?
If the answer's no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, then it would be how far are we willing to go to see it?
And here's the best of the best of the worst of the best full price at the theater down
to the twilight showing down to the matinee down to early morning on a weekend,
down to second run at the dollar theater down to actually leaving your house to get it
from red box down to streaming on Netflix down to waiting for it on cable.
General, let's start with you.
Would you see love Simon again?
I would.
How far are you willing to go to do so?
I would actually do a full price Friday Saturday night with the big ground.
So full full bore on this one.
Oh, yeah, it was a great movie.
It's a great date movie done.
I, there's, I can find anything wrong with it.
Okay, I love this thing.
Yes, I'll see this again.
And it's getting a coveted full price at the theater.
Yeah, yeah.
I would definitely see this again.
I think it's a great film.
I think it's, you know, I say this, this phrase a lot.
When we do these, but I really believe this is a good conversation piece for families to have.
No matter what your family dynamic is, it's like I've been saying this whole episode.
Yes, it's about a kid struggling to come out of the closet, but it's about so much more than that.
And I think this can really open a dialogue to anything that teenagers are going through
that they think that their parents won't accept them for no matter what it is.
This is a good way to start that conversation.
So that parents can say, no, my mother used to tell me as long as you're not
hurting yourself or anybody else, express that thing.
And to start that conversation, and I think that's part of the mission of this film is just to start
the conversation no matter what it is.
I'm going to put it its quiet for that reason.
Okay, go to dinner afterwards and talk about it.
Otherwise, I would put this all the way full bore, but then it gets to be too late.
Go to that five five 30 show, you're out by seven 30 pop over to a local restaurant and sit down
as a family and talk about these things together.
Because I think this is a good way to start that conversation.
And I got one recommendation.
Please, when this gets out on Blu-ray or DVD, teenagers, when you're looking for that,
let's get together and watch a movie together on a Friday night, who are in high school.
If you haven't seen it, rent this absolutely.
School kids in high school should really see this.
And we also need to, we forgot to say who directed this thing.
The man who is responsible for the Arrowverse Greg Berlanti directed this.
Really? Yes, sir.
So congrats to him as well.
It's called love sign for Wins Open.
Yes, sir.
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