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Welcome, my name is Rob, I am the Executive Producer of the Clubhouse Podcast.
And when I thought about, got the invitation to see this next movie, I went,
because I have a policy and I live by a code.
Luckily, I'm not the only one that does.
Sitting across from me in the coaster is the newest member of the cast,
and a man that would not say that to this film that we're about to talk about.
He is out, welcome sir.
I've been excited for this since I got introduced by J.J. Abrams.
Rounding out the days to see the official fact checker show of this show,
the only question in the room that's seen the film we're going to talk about.
You may know him as Fondango or Igboo.
Voice is almost back.
But it's not going to be even down for it, I'm going to come down for it.
What's going on sir?
I did offer to him, but he did.
Family, we're talking to microphones in this, in the home studio.
Hey, it's just a good dummy.
But family, family, family, family.
We'll see the movie first.
Because it is time for another.
Oh, I'm sure.
That's the best 442 for those of you playing the home game.
Almost to another milestone, you can believe it.
J.J. Abrams produces Julius Avery Direct.
Now Julius Avery also announced to be doing the Flash Gordon remake.
And it's called Overlord.
For starters, this whole thing.
Yes sir.
We got to thank Ashley and everybody at Levinson for the invite.
Thank you guys so much.
We love our vendors so much.
They take care of us.
They let us see movies in advance so we can talk to you guys about them.
So it's the night before D-Day.
And boys, played by Giovanna Depo.
He's a paratrooper.
It's World War II.
Or as Mikey likes to say.
World War II!
You have to ask him that story next time you see him.
I will.
It's a great story.
And they paratroop into this small French village that's under German occupation.
Because they are on a mission to destroy a radio tower that is jamming the signal
so the allies cannot get a hold of their people.
Hmm.
So there is a lady there by the name of Chloe, played by Bethilde Olivier,
who she hides him out for a little while to the next day and they can start making their quest towards this church
where the radio tower is.
However, there is a little sum going on in this church,
which is why I have a policy and I live by a code.
Because things get a little sideways with some human experimentation.
You see the trailer and you know what I'm talking about.
So Dawn.
Yeah.
You have seen this.
Yeah.
Runs about an hour 50.
Yeah.
And you also saw this in IMAX.
Yes I did.
Let's get into it.
All right.
I've got you set up.
All you got to do is give your opinion.
There's kind of two sides to this film.
That is the most World War II films do.
The man carries a point.
But you actually broke him.
You actually broke him.
Victory!
He wanted so bad to be mad at you for that and what you realize are you are going.
He couldn't handle it anymore.
On this film, the first 50 minutes hour is more like a private Ryan film.
It really reminded me of when you said that in your written review,
currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
I hit the button.
It didn't do what it was supposed to do.
I was like, I'm sorry.
What?
But then you talked more about it.
So go ahead.
But I was very confused.
Yeah.
The film starts off with them on the plane.
Right.
And you know it's nice for D-Day because they're one guy's taking a knife in the wall.
This is whatever.
Right.
Yeah.
It is at the plane scene that's in the trailer.
Yeah, you could say that.
So it's the start is in the trailer.
Yeah, that's basically where the film starts.
It starts off with some radio things and some footage.
Right.
And this 15, first 15, 20 minutes, it is intense.
I mean, it is intense, war, war, war.
So you're rip on right now.
Oh yeah.
This was on the edge of the scene.
There's some brutality.
Even just on the plane.
And from the time when the film starts till when he finally lands, he gathers himself
because they're paired, trooping out into France.
Right.
It's like Private Ryan's first 20 minutes.
Wow.
I kid you not.
That's intense, man.
Yeah.
That is intense.
Yeah.
It was really intense.
And we saw an IMAX.
And that film, that theater was shaking.
Kaboom.
Kaboom.
Kaboom.
Kaboom.
And you saw this in a genuine IMAX theater.
Yeah.
Not in the run of the mill.
Full blown IMAX theater, which at the cinema are 17.
Yeah.
So it used to be called.
And with the scenes hit, like when they're over, get over the land and the anti-aircraft
artillery is in the air.
And it's like, here's explosion right next to the plane.
Boom.
You felt it in there.
Oh wow.
And it's so real life intense.
I was like, whoa, okay, this is this really has my intention.
And that was just an IMAX.
It almost feels like this would be too much for a Dolby.
And Dolby probably about the same.
I mean, it felt like it was in a Stolby.
Then the land and they get to the village and they have to try to figure out how to take
the tower down.
Right.
So that first, you know, that's the first tower.
And it really reminded me kind of a private Ryan film.
Like it was it like a genuine good war film.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, this was like, well, let me ask you this though, because seeing the trailer, did that confuse
you at all?
Were you like, this isn't kind of what I was expecting or were you kind of okay?
I was pleasantly surprised.
Okay, fair enough.
Because I saw the trailer too and I kind of like, okay, but how they made that first half
of the film, a war film.
But then it turns into the experimentation in the sci-fi, which kind of gets real funky
at that point.
So that's when John Houser pops up.
John Houser.
Doc.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
I thought about Doc a few times on that too.
I was like, going, oh, only if you could hear this stuff right now.
I'm taking points.
Okay.
Yeah.
But you also have somebody else that's in the Marvel Universe in this.
And a cast-ecker, a place chase.
He plays fits on, ages of shield.
And I think there was a couple people.
Well, you could argue, uh, Bo Kim Woodbine is also in Spider-Man Homecoming.
Oh, I don't know.
He was in this as well.
Oh, wow.
Look at that.
Oh, you want another one?
There's two people from Game of Thrones in this with him.
I know Asback, who's phenomenal.
Mm-hmm.
As well as, I can't remember Greyworm's name, damn it.
Okay.
Easy.
Back to the film.
Okay.
The acting was really good.
Um, a depot.
A depot, a depot, as I said, or a depot.
I was with a depot.
A depot.
But it could be a depot.
Yeah.
And we have him and Russell will play the two main characters in this.
Along with, uh, the girl plays, um, quit.
But, like, Russell plays that pure, hardline military guy.
He's the boss to clarify.
You mean why it Russell?
Correct.
Yeah, Russell.
Yeah.
He plays that.
Is it weird that a depot's nickname is BamBam?
Bam.
Interesting.
Because that's mine.
I'm like, I'm looking, I'm doing that because I'm looking for a production or a production.
Yeah.
But Russell plays that hardline military guy.
He's been in a lot of stuff who's like, okay, let's just get this done.
And nothing really phases him.
And he's willing to do what it takes to finish the mission.
But he's very hardline.
And even if it means letting something bad happen to somebody else.
Because that's the right thing to do for the mission.
So his character and stuff that was really, really good.
A depot plays a guy who has that conscience.
And you might remember him as the son in fences.
Oh, yeah.
He was in that costume.
Yeah.
Um, but the filming style I really liked.
Because when it starts off in the air, it's mostly CGI except in the plane.
But you know, there's a lot of CGI in that.
And the parachute drop was incredible.
You felt you were there.
Because yeah, you jump out of the plane.
Everything's so hunky-dory.
But no, the issue is the bullets going by.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
People are getting what planes are blowing up.
People are getting shot.
And it doesn't, you know, tone down the brutality.
It was a realistic or seen for the first 20 minutes.
Um, I liked how it mostly took place in that small village in France.
It had that look of like you were back in, in Europe at that time.
From what I read on the production, some of that was filmed in England.
Mm-hmm.
But it wasn't that one village and it had that stone style houses right next to each other.
It had the brick streets and stuff like that.
The cobblestone street, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Um, the very, very good production view.
Look, the CGI was in there, but it wasn't like overlaward or anything like that.
See what you almost did there.
Yeah, I know.
That's 0 and 3.
In your defense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That boat's well for the movie.
But here's when it gets into the sci-fi stuff.
And I think it's trying to make a point of something like did something like this happen.
Now they went overboard on the experimentation and with the results of being spoiler free.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
But what the result is, I don't think really happened.
Everything on that point of what they were trying to do, I think, did happen.
It, this film has a lot of brutal scenes.
This gets brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal.
Um, do not take the kids.
Don't show this at church night.
Um, I mean, because those kids, I have to do that.
For those of you that were, we're planning on it.
I'd like to have a conversation with you after the show.
Um, but the thing that got to me on this film is that I think it got a little bit too overboard on the results of the experimentation
and how these people ended up like.
Um, wait, do we have to pause you with a spoiler alert right there?
Oh, hold on.
No, no, no, no, no.
It started to get there.
No, no, no, that's where I'm cutting it off at.
Okay.
That's why I said, did the results of the experimentation and leaving it at that.
Um, but still, it had that good military style film, but that mix of the sci-fi.
So going into this kind of film, I was watching it and I was kind of thinking,
you know what?
This might be a good guy's not out film.
Okay.
Have the, let's get the guys together.
You get some more, you get some battle, you get the extra sci-fi stuff.
First date, this is not the film to go.
I'm not sure dating.
Oh, that's right.
I mean, it's into that thing.
Yeah.
I'm not going to judge you outwardly.
Well, yeah.
You didn't realize there is the argument that you should always take a first date to a horror movie.
Well, this wasn't really too much of a horror.
Okay.
There are a lot.
And I was thinking about Dennis, the one who's watching this, thinking about you, Rob.
When I was watching this, going, I understand his policy, which is fine.
But I don't think this would scare you too much.
There are a couple of jump scenes and stuff like that, which they tried to do the jump.
Oh, and four.
Not verbal.
Oh, and four.
Do I need to say anything?
No, no, no.
You forgot that one.
But, um, I was really cute.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Yeah, I was keeping your mind when I was watching this thinking,
you would enjoy a lot of this film.
Um, but they tried a few jump scares, which I don't think was necessary.
And I thought maybe about five, ten minutes of the film could have been cut out.
But it had a good mix of some good comedy points to every once in a while.
They did a couple of like joke scenes and stuff.
So, yeah.
Oh, jokey jokes.
Yeah.
So it was kind of that kind of fun thing.
No!
But, uh.
I quit.
I quit.
I don't want to go old ten on this thing.
But no, the look was good.
The acting was good for what kind of film it is.
It's your good, more film, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy kind of thing.
Um, little yaddy?
Yeah, little yaddy.
But, uh, in the studios gonna hear this and go,
what are these people thinking?
You know, but no.
They're just gonna go.
Yeah.
No.
But, no.
I had fun with it.
Um, the Fantastic Faith Ford, there's a couple of scenes she liked it too.
But, she had to grab me on the little jump scenes and stuff.
I don't think that was too needed on it.
Did she kick anyone?
No.
Okay, so we only have one way to do that.
Just that.
But, there was, I think the sci-fi thing got a little too much in the end,
which kind of ruined it.
Because I still think they could have done it a little more toned down.
And they tried being brutal on this.
I mean, there are some brutal, brutal, brutal scenes.
I think our brutal count is up to like 40 right now.
But, I really, really, and I thought it was a fun film.
I really didn't enjoy it.
But, I was pleasantly, pleasantly surprised in the first half of how real war was.
Okay.
I was really shocked.
You ready to get the filing out?
Yeah, and I recommend, yeah, go ahead.
Well, yeah, don't recommend it.
We gotta get to the filing out.
Yeah, yeah.
The way we do the filing out is on the show.
We're not gonna give you thumbs up, thumbs down,
letter grades, numbers, parachutes, anything like that.
I'm gonna ask Don up the two questions.
Question number one is, would he see this film again?
If the answer's no, then we're done here.
But if the answer's yes, then the follow question I'm gonna ask him
is going to be how far he's willing to go to do it.
From the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's the rankings.
Full price at a theater, down to a twilight showing, down to a matinee showing,
down to early morning on a weekend, down to the second run of the dollar theater,
down to him leaving the house, getting from red box, down to him,
streaming on Netflix, down to him, actually just watching it on cable, Don.
Yeah.
Would you see Overlord again?
Yes, I would.
How far are you willing to go to do it?
I would say it in afternoon, but see it in the Dolby or in the IMAX.
I thought that first hour, especially the first 20 minutes made it worth it.
All right.
I really, you really felt like, oh, this is getting, this shows how dangerous those
flight missions were.
I'd like to see a film, I think for Hollywood, if you're listening,
do a film about the bomber pilots and the admissions they go through.
I think that really opened my eyes on the war about some of that stuff on that.
So, pleasantly surprised.
It is Julius Avery directing Overlord.
For the solving?
Yes, sir.
I think Ashley and your mate, Levinson, for the invite.
We are such big fans of our vendors.
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And maybe help you make the best possible decisions you can for your entertainment dollar.
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