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Number 485 for those of you playing the home game.
Welcome, my name is Rob, I am the Executive Producer of the Clubhouse Podcast.
And newly Marathons I can do any more involved Netflix, throughout it.
I have a t-shirt that says that and everything.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode joining me in the co-host chair is the Lady of the House.
And someone who could probably complete a marathon quicker than I could, because she's got two functioning knees and two functioning ankles, and I'm barely half that.
She is General, welcome friend.
Hello everyone, thank you for joining us again.
Whatever we do one of these, it is to review something, and this is no exception.
Jillian Bell stars in the directorial debut for one Paul Downs Colleizo, C-O-L-A-I-Z-Z-O.
I probably totally screwed that up.
And it's called Britney Runs a Marathon, and we were able to see this ahead of time.
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Like I said, the aforementioned Jillian Bell plays Britney.
And her picture on IMDB is very reminiscent of an old friend of the show.
I'll tell you that later.
I make sure you talk straight into that one.
This one's a little bit different than at the studio.
Our mics here are set up a little bit differently.
So she's just kind of going through life, doing her thing.
And her doctor tells her that she has to lose some weight if she's going to live.
And so she's struggling with that.
She's living in New York.
She's got a roommate who's trying to be a social media star.
And they have a neighbor in their building played by SNL alum Michaela Watkins, who runs a lot.
And so she decides she's going to try to become a runner and how her life changes as she decides, along with her and another running buddy of theirs, they're going to do the New York City Marathon.
There's a lot going on here because it's not just about somebody training for a marathon.
And that's one of the things I really, really dug about this film.
It's going to be a very short theatrical run.
It's a Netflix original.
So you'll be able to watch this on the Netflix very, very soon.
It's an hour 44.
I think it's paced well, but it still felt kind of wrong.
Feel free to chime in.
For me, the way the script was done.
And there are moments.
Collide so also wrote.
And the thing is is the real Brittany and he were roommates.
I found an article on Runner's World Charles Thorpe published it August 21st that gave the story behind who Brittany really was.
And she really was roommates with the writer and director.
And she knew she needed to make some changes and they decided she could run.
And that's where the idea behind this came to play.
But there are so many moments in this where there's conversations that I'm like, wait, was there a fly on the wall?
Yeah.
How is my life, you know, how is my life being projected into this?
Absolutely.
There's so many moments I could relate to.
And it wasn't just about the losing weight.
It's also a discovery of yourself.
Reminding yourself, you have self value.
You have worth.
You should do nice things for yourself.
And it's not an easy road.
Well, and the growth that comes with that too is a big part of this script.
And this was a darling at Sundance.
Yeah.
A friend of the show James Fast, that's where he saw it originally.
And what I, there's a lot of parallels in this film.
And what I liked about it is it wasn't ashamed to look at this from every level.
How it changes your relationship with your friends.
How it changes your relationships with just other people.
How it changes your relationship with yourself.
And what I read on the MDib was now in the beginning it does seem like there's some prosthetics that may be a little rough.
But she actually lost 40 pounds doing this film.
Correct.
And for the better, the first probably 15 minutes.
It kind of seemed over to the top for me.
Because Brittany lives in a sphere of comedy.
Some of that comedy felt kind of shoehorned in for the first few minutes of it.
Yeah, she wants to be the funny one.
That's how she thinks she fits in.
She thinks she has to be the funny one.
She needs to be the life of the party because she's not what all of her friends, her at the time, friends are.
And once it kind of gets its feet under it a little bit and kind of settles into itself, I think this is an amazing film.
But just those first few scenes where I was kind of like, I don't know what's going on here.
But I'm going to stick through this and see where it goes and I'm glad I did.
Because by the time I got to the end credits, all the fields were there.
Oh, yeah.
And I think for me being female, some of those scenes at the first I was easier to relate to than the male audience will be able to.
Like the scene in the club where she's talking to the guy.
That's not something I expect a guy to understand.
But I do expect other women to understand that feeling, that emotion that she's going through.
And she really delivers on the emotions and the feelings.
I was right there with her.
Art of racing in the rain. I didn't drop a tear.
This I was laughing.
Oh, I was crying.
I was.
I mean, I was going through all the emotions.
I went with a friend of mine who is a trains to be a runner.
She's actually studying to be a fitness coach.
Oh, wow.
And she was like, okay, this is going to be my, I need to motivate myself.
I need to remember, I have value, get myself, you know.
Have my 10 minutes down in the dumps.
And then I'm going to watch this and get back on track with everything.
Jackson is joined us in the studio.
Jackson is such a handsome boy.
And but I agree with what you're saying, but I think there's still universal issues here.
Oh, there are.
Because there, there's issues of being comfortable with who you are versus
still trying to get to your goals to be the person you want to be.
Jackson is trying to rub on my microphone.
Generomes a little allergic to the cats, but the cats don't care.
I love the cats.
They want their love and some matter how they get them.
I can't touch them.
But yeah, I think it is universal.
There's a few things that are, of course, somewhat gender specific.
But for the most part, it's anyone needs to have self-value and self-worth.
And it's those, I like how honest it is about some of the changes she goes through.
Yeah.
Where has other films that we've seen that kind of dealt with it in the same vein?
And there's another film that specifically I really kind of paralleled this to,
which was more fiction with an actress who I think her style favors very much.
As much as I liked that film, I like this one that much more,
because there was just a realism to it that said,
yeah, this is what you go through when you make a life change of this magnitude.
And it is, it is very realistic.
You know, sometimes you go and see movies and you can tell,
okay, that's a bit of CGI and that's a bit fantastic.
And that's a bit, okay, that never really would have looked that way.
Or it looks like somebody did it on their camcorder.
This really felt like you were right there with them.
It looks like, I mean, you were viewing it through your own eyes,
not through the lens of a camera.
Just the concepts of, you go through that honeymoon phase when you start to lose weight
and you're buying new clothes and things like that.
And I just, I really appreciated its honesty.
And again, all the fields were there.
Oh, yeah. And the who supports you and who doesn't.
And the motivations within said support too.
Yes. And how you view other people versus their own reality.
You know, there's people we look up to that don't think they have it together.
And but to us, they do.
And how that impacts us.
It's also how her personal life, her family history gets into the story of this for the character.
And it, you start to see how all those pieces click together.
I just, I really, really love this film more than I thought I would.
Oh, it's going to be in my top.
It's going to be great. Oh, I should probably get to the final analysis.
Well, like I said, if there's any criticism,
it's just, it's, it's a little slow out of the gate.
And see for me, I didn't, I didn't even, I needed, I needed the warm up to be able to hit all the emotions.
It just, it just felt like it just felt kind of wonky for me.
And I think it's because I just had to get used to who the character was maybe.
And I think it's because she's wonky and she's uncomfortable in her skin.
That's her.
So I think maybe they were making you uncomfortable so that you could relate to her.
I mean, we could go through and we could take an hour just on the storylines alone.
Because again, there's a lot going on here.
There's this, this, this story has multiple layers to it.
Every character has their own motivations and how they weave together.
It's really well done.
But let's just go ahead and get to the final analysis.
The way we do the final analysis on this show,
we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down.
We're not going to give you a letter of grades, numbers, medals, anything like that.
Up to two questions.
Question number one is what we see this film again.
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, we're still going to use our normal film scale.
Because this is going to get a theatrical release before it goes to the flicks of net.
So from the best of the best of the worst of the best, here is the range.
Full price of the theater down to a twilight showing, down to a matinee showing,
down to early morning on a weekend, down to second run of the dollar theater,
down to your favorite stream.
I'm actually getting the physical copy.
Then going down to your favorite streaming service, then down to cable.
General, would you see Brittany runs a marathon again?
Yes.
How far are you willing to go and do it?
I would actually go full price.
I encourage anyone to go full price.
And if they release it, I will purchase it.
Netflix has been doing that lately.
Now it's a little bit down the road because they want to get the downloads.
But they have been releasing some of their stuff on physical media.
I absolutely would see this again.
I agree with General.
We'll see this in a theater in first run.
It deserves all of your monies.
This is not, I mean, it don't bring the kids.
Language is an issue.
But...
Preview it first.
Yeah.
If you have under 18s that want to see it, see if you're comfortable with them seeing the material
and then let them see it because it is motivational.
I could see teenage girls this being good for them.
If their parents are ready to have conversations with them about some of the stuff.
Paul Downs-Kalaitzo directs Brittany runs a marathon.
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