iTunes Exclusive Episode All The Money In The World

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Welcome.
My name is Rob. I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast.
We are going to review a movie right now for you.
That takes place the year I was born.
But I am not alone for this particular review joining me across the desk as he does from time to time.
Is the official fact checker of this show and a man who can't claim that?
Because we weren't born in the same year.
You may know him as fond, don't go but his mama name is Don Ford.
I am going to call him Don Ford. Welcome sir.
Are we doing a film about Christopher Columbus?
No that is if it was Chad.
Okay sir.
You know how that works.
Mixed up.
Whatever we do one of these it is to review something and this is no different.
A film that's got a lot of people talking right now for a lot of different reasons.
Really Scott directs all the money in the world.
But we start this whole thing?
Yes sir.
We got to think Brad and everybody wants PR for this.
Hey.
We got to do that.
We got to have something for them.
Yeah.
We have something for everybody else.
We got to get to feeling we're not the first people to do that.
We're going to have him for the first time last night.
Great guy.
Nice guy.
You're going to have a great much enjoyable with him.
Yeah.
All right.
So here's what you need to know.
It's 1973.
And the richest man in the world is John Paul Getty.
Yep.
Originally played by Kevin Spacey and then some things happened in a month before release.
They bring in Christopher Plummer to play the role inserting him in all the scenes.
His grandson, John Paul Getty the third, is kidnapped.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And this is based on a true story.
This is a true story.
It's based on a true story.
You're talking also in this film, Michelle Williams.
Mark Wahlberg.
Mark Mark.
Yeah.
Exactly.
You've also got Timothy Hutton.
You've also got Charlie Plummer.
This thing runs about two hours and 15 minutes.
Yeah.
Someone there.
Don, you actually checked this out.
Yeah.
I did not get to see this.
We were kind of dividing and conquering.
Double duty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we want to cover as much ground as we can.
So I'm going to be asking you all the questions because you're the one that saw it.
Let's just dive right into the deep end of the pool as I was looking at the trailer as we
were getting ready to do the show.
It looks, it's got a modern look to it from a film standpoint but it also still has that
retro look.
It's kind of a weird hybrid from what I saw.
Is that what you saw?
Yeah.
I really like it.
If you go to my written review, www.theclubhousepodcast.com, that's our website.
This film really shows England and Italy very well.
Does it all take place in Europe?
Yes.
In the kidnapping, they're living in Rome at the time where the grandson is.
The father has places around the world, of course, but he basically stays at his biggest
state in England.
All right.
Carolina.
Richest man in the world at the time.
So I really like how they show the English countryside.
They show it Italy well and this was very historically correct to the time.
This takes place in 1973.
Right.
There are a few backtracks of how they got to Rome and you got to tell the back story.
The back story.
But not too much.
How do we get to where we are?
Absolutely.
Not too much of the backflashing.
Sure.
There is one scene where they show the family arriving in Rome before the divorce and the
kidnapping and the child's younger and they're driving by the Colosseum and they go,
now look, the Colosseum Colosseum and the thing I noticed is they showed one certain shot
of the Colosseum with nothing new in the background.
They had to do that perfect angle and they're driving by and all you saw was old cars.
So I'm thinking they had a stop traffic, closed traffic on there and they allow these older
cars from the 1960s drive through.
So one thing I really liked was showing buildings that even inside a hotel or something, it didn't
show the new foo foo.
They show these older, historic hotels with the Renaissance or these locations.
So when it comes to the sets and everything like that, very time period, correct, which
will impress you.
Social at the auto.
That's one thing that you're picking on.
So they do stuff in Saudi Arabia real fast.
They do stuff in Morocco.
They do stuff even in New York.
So it's around the, but basically mostly Europe and Italy, but showed this to places
very well.
I was really impressed with the car usage on that.
There was some old old cars.
So but to look, it's still set in that 73, even earlier for the fast tracking, but had
that nice feel with the, with the filming and stuff like that.
So you felt like you were there.
Not a problem.
Not a problem with the look.
You felt like you were there at the time, but back flashing.
You like you took a time, time machine, trip back.
Okay.
So everything stayed on point for you from that.
Exactly.
Yes.
So, you know, really Scott, I mean, the guys got skittings on the wall.
Yeah.
I guess a few passes with me.
Yeah.
I'm sure he does.
If you know the thing about Don, you know, he's a big Ridley Scott fan.
But let's go to the casting of this because you've got some people that I, I thought when
I heard some of the casting, especially Walberg, I was wondering if he might be a little
bit out of his element here.
How was he for you in this?
This is because he plays an employee of John Paul, get you the first who he actually times
like, look, the authorities can't get this done for me.
I need you to get in there.
Well, the authorities are working on it because this is a so high profile.
The press is on.
All right.
John Benay-Ranzi.
This was nationally covered.
There's so many times where the press is outside the family of the character of Michelle
Williams' character who plays the daughter-in-law of the rich dude, okay, of plumbers' character.
Okay.
So he's the kidnapper's mother.
Yeah.
The kidnapper's mother.
Okay.
And she's one of the main characters.
Right.
You can just call it.
I call her Gale.
You can call her Gale, the mother.
All right.
But with the casting, she does very well because she plays a lady who.
Let's be realistic.
She really has no money.
Even though her father-in-law is the richest man in the world at the time, you stay rich
by keeping your money.
Well, what?
And she had just been through a divorce, too.
Well, what happens?
They got divorced because her son goes off and does the drugs, all of that.
And I'm not giving too much of a spoiler ways, but they get divorced and to end a divorce
and all that stuff.
She just says, I don't want nothing.
All I want is child support and custody because your son's on drugs.
I want to raise the son.
All I want is child support and nothing more.
I don't want half his estate.
And so she really has no money, just a monthly child support check, which is a good deal.
Fair enough.
So these kidnappers think that she's rich, but she is emotionally going through a lot
in this film, trying to say, hey, I don't have anything.
I don't have any money.
She's trying to get as much help.
So she goes to her father-in-law, play by plumbers and says, hey, we need some help.
But in real life, it's been quoted that he goes, I got 14 grandkids.
I'm not, I can't pay out for every grand kid that gets kidnapped.
Right.
Fair enough.
But friendly performance.
Yeah, she plays a very well emotional lady who's going through a lot, who says, I have
no money.
And plays that very well.
She's a lady who's in despair.
Plumber, you know what you're going to get with him.
Because he's awesome.
He's awesome.
Here's the thing.
I know he knocked the marquee mark, you know, from Paris, Texas.
What?
I know.
I got transformed into Bond.
Okay.
Yeah, I know.
But he plays a guy who works for him who's actually used to be a spy.
So his character, he doesn't have too much of the boss in accent, but you can tell
he's an American, but he's been around the world.
So his character is not too much out of that realm, considering he's a world traveler.
Yes, he works for an international company.
Yes, he's one that I write hand men of the of plumbers characters, stuff like that.
Plumber plays perfect on this because he plays a man who was in England with that accent.
He has a maneurism of an old man who his rich has that formality, lives in England.
He's accents, not out of place, stuff like that.
The one who plays the son, they call him Paul, the Charles Plumber, I mean, Charlie Plumber,
who's a kidnapping.
He does pretty well.
Any relation there?
I didn't see anything because I was looking on a Wikipedia and I don't think it may be
just the last name is the same.
I didn't see where he, where any of the kids, he's like the grandson of Plumber, anything
like that.
I did not see that at all.
I don't know if he could keep talking.
Yeah.
But he plays that part very well of being a son who basically was born in America because
he was born in New York.
He plays who gets transferred to Italy because of the divorce and all that stuff.
Plays that part pretty well.
So there's no characters really out of whack.
Now, Plumber does great for the role.
Yes, he's a step in.
I don't know if he would have done better than Spacey because I don't know if Spacey's
character would have been perfect for the old man who lives in the English countryside.
Plumber does.
Okay.
Maybe they were looking at him originally if I read something on that film earlier.
I think possibly he, then you looked at Plumber first, Spacey got the role and of course
you know what happened.
So acting, I see no big major nominations from this film.
Although there are two Golden Globe nominations coming out.
I could see, I mean Michelle Williams does great.
I can't, I didn't see, but it's like there's nothing huge that blew my breath from it.
But she does good in it.
I could see it may be a nomination, but I don't know if she'd win the best actress next
story.
Right now you're looking at three Golden Globe nominations and we're recording this about
three weeks before the Golden Globes.
Christopher Plumber, Michelle Williams and Best Director for Rigby Scott, all three Golden
Globe nominations.
Okay.
Now I could, I could see Michelle Williams.
Plumber, I think he's a stand in.
Use the problem with the film.
Let's talk about this.
All right.
I'm going to put it in my screen review again at www.cobastbox.com.
Still our website.
The plot.
Yes, they had to do some reshooting.
I think that this film may have suffered because of that and the question is, what do you
do?
Do you leave Spacey and let it go?
Because a lot of people say, hey, it's already been filmed, you know, we can't hurt the film
because of that.
What's done is.
But they also didn't want to shelf it and to see if the dust settled or whatever.
Yes.
They had, they were going ahead with it and they just went in called Plumber in a month
before and let's us do this thing.
Yeah.
So, here's what even the Fantastic Faith foreset, she's with me last night and she saw
this with me.
There was a lot of scenes that were just cut and questions not answered.
And I don't know because it wasn't the editing.
It's like they moved to, to, to, to in the beginning, they moved to Italy.
The sun gets a job with his dad.
He gets a big position in an oil company.
And then all of a sudden you just see him gone and you don't really see why was the
divorce.
You don't really see him go off the deep end.
So there's a lot of things in the film and the story I think that got cut out.
There were some stuff that was added a little too much.
This scene got extended here.
This scene got extended there.
Okay.
So, in that aspect, the plot, it's too long.
It's two hours and 15 minutes, even a lot of people were saying this thing is just too
long.
Okay.
It felt long at the very end.
You know, it's good.
The basic plot line is good.
The storyline, overall, the whole is good because I read up on the kid napping.
A lot of this is historically correct of what happened in real life is what they show
in the movie.
All right.
There is some brutality.
There is a scene in there which shows I'm going to say is reservoir dogs.
Oh, dear.
Yes.
I'll leave it at that.
A little stuck in the middle with you actually.
Yes.
Jerry Rafferty is I'm going to say that because that did happen in real life and they actually
showed that part happening in mailing is I'm going to say.
Okay.
It's trying to be, you know, family.
I believe there's a reference to that on one of the posters if I know what you're
talking.
Possibly.
Look at that.
Yeah.
But the, so overall, the, it's a good storyline, but I think it just got too extended.
Some scenes got too extended and I think some stuff got cut out and possibly because of
the spacey issue.
I don't know for sure.
I can't answer that because I wasn't, didn't see the original with spacey and if that
did happen, I think the film might have got hurt because there was a lot of gaps and
stuff stuff got too expanded.
And I think the overdravitized some of the other stuff.
All right.
Anything else you want to add if we're going to get to the final analysis?
No.
All right.
Let's go straight to the final analysis then.
The way we do this on this show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down.
We're not going to give you letter grades, numbers, you know, Benjamin's, nothing like
that.
Here's what we're going to do.
I'm going to ask Don up to two questions.
Question number one is, would Don see this film again?
If the answer's no, then we're done here.
But if the answer's yes, then I'm going to ask him a follow up question of how far he's
willing to go to see it again because that judges how much he enjoyed the film.
And the best of the best of the worst of the best here is your spectrum.
Full price at a theater, twilight showing, matinee show, early morning on a weekend, second
run at the dollar theater, actually leading your house to get it from red box, streaming
it on Netflix, or just simply waiting for it on cable.
Don, would you see this film again?
Yes.
How far are you willing to go?
I love early Scott, but the extension and stuff cut out in a gap and it seems so long
and I can give it a red box.
Oh, really?
So you would still leave the house?
Yes.
Just barely.
Okay.
It's good, but the too late, but it's still worth a red box, I'd say.
It is all the money in the world directed by one Ridley Scott.
Again, we got to think Brad, I didn't everybody at fonts PR.
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