iTunes Exclusive Episode Thoroughbreds

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Alex is here.
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I'm just along for the ride.
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Everything sounds great here in the studio.
Whenever we do one of these things, it is to review something.
This is no exception.
This is a new film in theaters from director Corey Finley.
It is called thoroughbreds for we start this whole thing.
Yes, sir.
We got to think Caitlin nearby.
Slifox.
Zee.
Zee.
Zee.
Zee.
Zee.
Zee.
We all got to invite.
I could make it.
You could make it.
We had to divide and conquer because we had we were we had multiple.
Yeah.
Things going on.
And we like to make sure that all of our vendors are taken care of.
Exactly.
And that's why it's nicer to have the larger cast.
Yes.
Because that way we can divide and conquer a little bit better.
Here's what you need to know.
This was Anton Yelchins final film.
So there's going to be some talk around that.
You've got, uh, I lost my place there.
Your two main characters are Olivia Cook and Anya Taylor Joy playing Amanda and Lily.
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship
after years of growing apart.
Another they had to plan to solve both of their problems, no matter what the cost.
I would say I think I could venture to say dark comedy.
Definitely dark.
As I said in my written review, which can be found at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
That's our website.
That it's along the vein of Heather's Cruel Intentions American Psycho.
I mean, it's listed as a drama slash thriller, no pun intended.
It's about an hour and a half to feel like an hour and a half.
It did.
It definitely felt like an hour and a half.
Cory Finley is a great screenwriter.
And he did write this as well.
And this is originally a play and he turned around and he decided to direct it.
And I had some issues with translation from play to movie.
From a screenwriting standpoint, this is the first thing he's put on.
The screen.
Yes.
I mean, and it's like I said, it's a good script.
It just did better probably on the stage than how he did it directing it as a movie.
Well, when you and I talked in pre-show on this, you felt like maybe some editing work
could have been done better on as I correct.
Yes.
Yes.
They went into a bit of long ended speeches that you didn't necessarily need in the movie
and then you were lacking some visual clues.
And then there were plot holes that you might get an answer toward the end of something
you really needed 20, 30 minutes into the movie because you're going, huh?
The whole time.
And then finally, you get the answer.
Is this cast strong enough to carry a script like this?
I think the cast did a really good job.
I'll put kudos to the whole cast on this.
That's what's going to carry the movie.
That's what's going to get it a fan following.
He's on Yulchin playing some call him Tim.
It's a Monty Python right next to him.
Yeah.
The look on Don's face of, I have no idea what just happened here.
It was a, he did a pretty good job.
It was a bit of a shame.
Is he the evil stepfather in this or is he the other guy that we see in the trailer?
I've just been a while since I did the trailer.
He's the other guy.
So he's the guy that they have helped him do something that's alluded to in the trailer.
He's the one they're trying to get have helped them.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
So he's the situation whisperer basically.
He's the dealer fair enough.
So you said it was paced about right.
I'm a crook on that.
It was for what it was.
I, you know, we know that Jen likes her action movies, so indeed she likes to watch stuff
explode.
I like past cars and explosions and that fun.
So it was a bit slow paced to me.
And like I said, there were points where you're like, okay, I'm missing it.
And a piece of this information to be able to fully follow what's going on in front
of me.
Okay.
And then they gradually bring that out.
You know, they did a good job with the script.
They delivered their lines and it was a thing.
It was a thing.
Okay.
And maybe it's the affluenza of it all that didn't carry for me.
And just to be clear on that, you're not talking about the cast.
You're talking about the characters in the cast that are very ritzy, upper class, lovely
kind of a thing going on.
One of them is extremely affluenza.
She's pristine.
She's perfect.
She's well, at least everyone thinks she's perfect.
She tries to be perfect and she wants what she wants and she's going to get it.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Any Taylor Joy has been putting a lot of solid work in the same kind of movie together
for the last couple of years.
Would you say that she continues with the exceeding expectations?
This is the first time I've seen her.
So I mean.
You would know her in a film that Don saw last year.
Don didn't you see the witch?
Oh yeah.
She's in that.
She's also in the.
She's also the title character in a film that we got past as Morgan.
That's a good thing.
No, it wasn't last year's year before because it made my top 10 worst to the year before.
Okay.
All right.
Fair enough.
But she wasn't split.
That's the big one as well.
Okay.
And I mean, she did, she did a good job.
I mean, for the character she was supposed to play, you actually do.
There's characteristics with this character that she actually does pull off that you can
kind of believe on the screen.
She is actually also going to be in the upcoming New Mutants film chat.
Oh, she's playing Ilyana Resputin Magic.
Nice.
Thank you.
I am TV.
Okay.
I mean, yeah.
It's like Alex said she's getting a lot of a lot of work lately.
So.
And she's getting very particular characters with the dark comedy to just dark movies.
And I was just very curious with how New Mutants was looking.
And that's where I was.
We just now put you back to next year, which is looking very dark with it's early.
Very much so.
That was going to continue on that she's getting typecasted.
Did anybody stand out for you?
Not really.
There wasn't really.
And you know, like I said, it's going to have it's cult following.
It's going to be one of those films that gets a cult following.
Just don't know that it's going to happen in the theater.
Okay.
Do you see it having, as you mentioned, comparing it to Heather's film that's now a television
series and a musical that is true.
You are correct.
I forgot about that.
Do you see this getting that kind of a cult following or just even more niche than that?
It probably will, but not with our age range.
It'll be the ones in their late teens early 20s right now.
So that when they're our age, there'll be something else that comes out that'll be the
following.
Okay.
So really no major, major standouts to you, just kind of a well-rounded cast.
Yeah.
Yeah, they did, I mean, they did go with the casting.
I can see where he's going to make something of himself.
This was his first project.
It does need some tweaking, but you know, it's nothing to be ashamed of.
A teaching experience, if you will.
I think so.
All right.
Do you have any questions that you have for if we get to the final analysis?
With this appearing as the first run, do you think that the studio should have probably
tried to grab somebody more veteran to help lead him?
Like that would have turned this around more for you?
I don't think he could let go enough to make that happen.
Oh, really?
I think it was more that was his baby and he wanted to do it his way kind of a thing.
So this has been his directorial debut.
How would you rate him on a skill of one to ten on doing as a director?
As a director.
Okay.
It's been his first major film he's directing.
Three.
Oh dear.
Oh.
But he's got room to grow.
Okay.
You know, I mean, this is true.
That is true.
As I said, I think I wrote it.
There's times where you're almost like you're in a tennis match, a very slow and where
someone's speaking and they pan to the other person to watch their reaction.
And then they go back to the person speaking.
So it's more just a constant hard cut after hard cut after hard cut with no real transitions.
Which thing?
Yeah.
There's a lot of that in there.
It's a claustrophobic feeling film.
It's not really wide open.
It's more.
I wouldn't call it claustrophobic.
But like I said, it's like you're watching a tennis match where I'm going to watch Rob.
I'm going to watch Chad.
I'm going to watch Rob.
And now Chad's going to speak.
So I'm going to go back to Chad.
And then more me.
More me.
More me.
That would drive me crazy.
It's like it.
It's like watching a pan and scan film.
That would drive me nuts.
I don't know.
Anything you're driving as much as that.
That pan and scan.
Like it makes my eyes hurt when they do pan and say, and for those of you that we're talking
about, it's they don't use as much anymore because everybody's gone to widescreen.
But what they would do is if you were, they thought they were doing you a favor if you
were watching a widescreen film on a four by three television.
So what they would do is they would shrink down the frame.
And when something was happening outside of that frame, they would actually literally
move the frame over and then move the frame back.
And it literally would give me headaches watching.
Yeah.
And it's kind of a Tommy Wazir thing.
You like good movie.
And the other questions, gentlemen.
No.
And let's get to the final analysis.
The way we do the final analysis on the show is I'm going to ask the general Rome up to
two questions.
That's great.
The first question is, would she see this film again if the answers know that we're done
here?
But if the answer is yes, then I'm going to ask her how far she's willing to go to see
it.
From the best of the best of the worst of the best, here is the spectrum.
Full price at a theater down to the twilight showing down to the matinee, down to the early
morning weekend, down to second run at the dollar theater, down to actually leaving your house
and getting it from red box down the streaming on Netflix and down to just waiting for it on
cable.
General Rome, would you see thoroughbreds again?
Not going out of my way to do it, but if it's on, I might not change the channel.
So you're saying K, you would, but you're waiting for it.
You would see it on cable if there was nothing else on the dial.
If it happened to already be there, yeah.
You're like, eh, so this is a thing.
Yeah.
Fair enough.
You've heard it from the person who saw it.
I mean, that's all I'm saying, because we didn't see it.
She did.
She worked with your trust hard judgment.
It is Corey Finley, who writes and directs thoroughbreds.
Provence whole thing.
Yes, sir.
Again, we got things Caitlyn, everybody.
Slifox.
Zidane me.
Zidane me.
Zidane me.
Zidane me.
They give us a chance to see films before they're released so that we can tell you guys
about them and you can make informed decisions for your entertainment dollar.
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