Home Show Mid90s

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This is number 438 for those of you playing the home game and we're about 30 of these
away from having as many home shows as we have actual weekly episodes which is crazy
which means we're approaching a thousand of these things.
I know, I know, we're dedicated.
My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and in the mid 90s
I moved to Texas.
Sitting across from me for this episode is my co-host and a man who in the mid 90s met
me.
He is Chad, welcome sir.
How's it going to say in the mid 90s?
I had a kid.
Yeah, all the early 90s kind of sort of.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cause she's what 94, correct?
93.
93.
So she was, I was talking about her today.
Yeah, she turns 25.
Oh, I know.
I know.
Trust me.
In about 60 days, we're over it.
We actually know a little more than 30 days, about 45 days now.
Yeah, yeah.
Our math is terrible.
Public school math.
You're welcome.
Whenever do we do one of these things, it is to review something and this is no exception.
Here's two phrases you may not think you'd be hearing today, director Jonah Hill.
No, no, I wouldn't.
He directs and writes a movie called Mid 90s and before we get moving, we want to thank
everybody at Allied Integrated Marketing, don't use that one.
I'm telling you, my voice is so shot, bro.
They're one of our vendors who we love so much.
Tanya and everybody over there, I could not be a bigger fan of.
They let us see movies early so we can talk to you guys about them and you can make the
best possible decisions with your entertainment dollars.
What if I told you this movie doesn't clear an hour 25?
Really?
Wow.
What if I told you that this movie was shot on 16 millimeter?
Wow.
He went grungy old school.
He, Jonah Hill dedicated himself to this and as the title tells you, this takes place
in the mid 90s.
Now before we get moving on this, I have to ask you a logistical question.
What year did the first PlayStation come out?
95?
Okay, so we have some accuracy there because at one point they're playing a Super Nintendo
but at another point they're playing a PlayStation and I was like, so we're good.
At the end of the Super NES lifecycle at the beginning of the PlayStation.
They don't say specifically what year it is.
It's just that it's the mid 90s.
It's about Stevie played by Sonny Sulejik.
This kid's already got to get to the wall.
Really?
How old is he?
How old is he young?
Let me get you an actual number on that.
He plays Stevie.
He was in, he's already been in this killing of a sacred deer.
He's the voice of a trayous and God of War.
He's also in the house with a clock on his walls.
She is.
Yeah.
I mean, he's already got some stuff.
Oh, so he must be Kratos' son.
Yes.
Okay.
And the new God of War.
He's also in, don't worry.
He won't get far and foot either.
Wow.
Yeah.
This kid's already got.
Yeah.
And he's like, I mean, I mean, give you an exact number.
I think it has his age in there.
That's insane.
No, it does not have his actual age in there.
But he plays Stevie.
Kid in the summertime.
He's just trying to, he doesn't know who he is.
He's got an older brother named Ian played by Lucas Hedges, who you will be seeing very,
very soon in the Julia Roberts vehicle that everybody's talking about.
Ben is back.
Okay.
There are a mother played by Catherine Watson, single mother, just trying to make it in
this world.
Stevie's terrorized by his older brother.
Oh, gosh.
But he, at the same time, idolizes his older brother.
It's very, very, very interesting dynamic between them.
So Stevie's out running around one day and he sees this group of kids on skateboards.
Just doing skateboardy things.
And he kind of takes to them.
And the rest of the film is about him and how his whole world changes as he hangs out
with these kids.
And I mean, everything changes for him.
Jonah Hill kills it.
Good.
He's not in it at all.
Good.
I mean, I guess he could have made like a slight cameo or something and it would have made
a difference.
Maybe who does have a slight cameo in this film?
One of his writing buddies?
Nope.
Okay.
What if I said the words Mr. Dobelina, Mr. Bob Dobelina, Del the funky homo-sakey.
What?
Has a cameo and they play Mr. Dobelina in the soundtrack's amazing.
Oh, I bet.
The soundtrack is all 90s hip hop like our wheelhouse like deep cuts.
Yeah.
Our wheelhouse.
Like Marky Mark nowhere near this.
Good.
Right.
The far side passing me by plays close to the end, which is one of my favorite hip hop
jams.
So it takes a minute to settle into this film, but it doesn't have a lot of minutes to
play with.
Right.
Because this film, and I told you before we recorded this, I'm going to say something and
you're not going to see it coming.
Okay.
This film reminded me a lot of clerks.
No, that doesn't shock me at all.
In the way Jonas shoots it, it's very reminiscent.
He uses more tricks, camera tricks than Kevin does and Kevin fully admits that.
But the style of dialogue, it's very organic.
I wonder how much of it was improvised.
If any of it.
I've tried to look that up and couldn't find out because I said in my written review,
which is currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
And you still have a ticket?
No.
Oh, there we go.
Oh, I don't have the official one.
There we go.
I have enough battery power to get the iPad up and running now.
That's, it's very organic.
But I would like to sit down with him and kind of pick his brain and go, dude, talk to me
about the process here and the iPad just died again.
I had one percent.
You got one coin flip?
Exactly.
I would love to sit down with him and just pick his brain for like an hour and say, talk
to me about the process of this film because it's so different than anything else.
Not what you expected to come from him as a directorial debut.
Right.
This is directorial debut on this.
Yes, sir.
It's the first film he's ever directed.
But I think the kids in this are actual pro skaters because I've looked them up and
there's not much else going on here, except for the one guy right, except for for son
Catherine and Lucas, those ballots out of those three.
And in don't worry, he won't get fall on far on foot.
Sonny's subject plays one of the skaters.
It helps pick walking Phoenix's character up in his wheelchair falls down.
Okay.
So yeah, I mean, these kids are good.
You can tell that these aren't stunned people.
Like he went and found California skate kids and did the deal.
One of the things I really love is you have two characters.
One ray played by Nakal Smith, the other one whose name I can't say because his name is
a combination of two words that we don't say on this show.
Okay.
One being the word, the other one being the other word, all right.
Two activities that take place in the same area of one's body, and they call that because
that's what he says when something cool happens.
It's his nickname played by Owen prenat.
I got to look this up now.
And it's one word, by the way, not two.
Okay.
What I loved about the way the story unfolds is Ray is a guy who is like, he's the leader
of the group and he is the best skater around.
And he's the kind of the angel on Stevie's shoulder saying, dude, you just need to be
you need to, you know, you've got potential, keep working, where has the other guy is the
devil and other shoulder man, all he wants to do is party and just live the life.
You also have Rubin played by a geogalicia who's kind of the kid that's closer to his
age.
Okay.
That kind of gets him into everything.
And he's normally like the little brother, but as Stevie hangs out with him more, they
start to gravitate towards him and there's a little bit of conflict there as well.
This film works on every level.
It's, and I said this in my review, there's going to be people that will detract from it
and talk about how simplistic it is.
Great.
But in its simplicity, excuse me, it shows the complexity of coming of age.
Like Sujik's performance in this is mind-blowing.
You can, I can't say you because I don't know what you would do, but as I watched it,
I watched him physically and emotionally everything transform during this film.
It's almost like a microcosm version of Boyhood.
Oh man.
And this kid's good.
Really, really good.
Obviously, as much work as he's gotten just in the past 18 months.
And in this one summer, he goes through everything and it's insane.
And he knows how to, even in moments where he's growth, he's having growth, he still
knows how to show the audience that he's still that weird little fragile kid that he is
in the beginning of it.
There were moments where I'm not crying, you're crying.
There are moments I laughed out loud.
There are moments where I was like, yeah, I know those moments.
Even though my age for this was probably about 70 years earlier.
And you probably write around 10, given where he would have been.
This film is universal.
You know, I was very honored to be able to sit next to Ant from the movie brothers.
Oh cool.
He was there.
He and I sat together.
And he and I were both talking after film like, dude, this is so, and the farther I got
away from it, the better it got.
Like he captured everything.
Like the A24 logo in the beginning is actually made out of skateboards sitting on a street.
That's cool.
And you know how the A24 logo moves, they take the skateboards away in that pattern.
That's dope.
This film is everything.
I mean, it's an indie film that demands to be stand up and respected.
Jonah Hill, you can say whatever you want about him.
The dude's got an eye and he's got a pen.
I've got nothing bad to say about him I never have.
I was reading some of the trivia.
Let me read you so I can say exactly what happened.
Because this guy is a hip-hop head in the biggest of ways.
Jonah?
Oh yeah.
He actually left a production meeting to attend Kanye West's album release party in Wyoming.
Like that's how big of a hip-hop head this kid is.
And the music he picks is perfect.
There's a couple of moments where I found myself going, oh, oh, oh, oh, I mean there's
some intense moments in this.
It's just, it's everything.
Okay, you got to get to the final analysis because I got it.
Alright, let's get to the final analysis.
The final analysis on the show, I'm not going to give you a thumbs up, thumbs down.
We're not going to talk letter grades, numbers, skate decks, anything like that.
Two questions.
Questions number one is what I see this again and the answer is no we're done here.
The answer is yes.
Followed question is how far would I be willing to go to do so?
From the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's how it rolls.
Full price at a theater down to a twilight showing, down to a daytime showing, down to early
morning on a weekend, down to second one at the dollar theater, down to actually leaving
the house to get it from red box, down to streaming it on Netflix, down to cable.
Rob.
Yes sir.
What'd you see this again?
Abs of flipping loosely.
Kind of figuring as much.
How far are you willing to go?
Anyway, you can get to it.
I don't know how big of a theatrical run this is going to get.
If it goes wide, go.
I don't care how you go.
Go.
I'm sold.
I'm completely sold.
I was interested anyway.
I'm even more interested now.
The trailer doesn't really tell you enough.
Like when I saw the trailer, I was kind of on the fence, but I think that's done purposely
because there's so much going on here that you would give too much away if you said
more than you did in the trailer.
And when you do see it, there's a couple of big moments in it.
Do not spoil this movie for people.
Do yourself a solid because this is one of those films that needs to be experienced
in the moment, in the theater, as it goes.
And again, it's rated R for a whole lot of reasons.
Well, I'm absolutely sold.
Did you see the character name I was telling you about?
No, no.
It crashed on me.
Here, I'll show it to you.
You'll know it when you see it.
It is Jonah Hill writing and directing a movie called Mid-90s.
And again, we want to thank everybody that allied in great marketing.
We love Tanya and everybody over there.
They give us the opportunity to see films before they come out so we can talk to you guys
about it.
See what I'm saying?
You could have cleaned that up if you wanted to.
No.
Because I don't have the iPad up because I would have had the beep, which would have been
more effective.
All right.
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