iTunes Exclusive Episode And So It Goes

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Greetings, Empire of Member or Members.
If you are hearing my voice right now, it means a couple of things.
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Maybe you've gathered around the campfire to listen to this as a group and sing songs together.
I don't know.
I'm okay with it, don't give me a long.
My name is Robin.
I am the executive producer slash ringmaster slash music liner upper.
Yes, that's a word I just made it up.
I'm adding it to the Oxford English dictionary next year.
We do have a couple of people joining me for this.
And they are here on the studio with me currently.
To my left across the desk, I have to give you kind of a visual about going on.
Is a man that as I drove up to the studio was grooming his beard because he had to.
He is the king of bowling. He is Andrew Beckham. Welcome to the show sir.
Why?
Because I had to.
Exactly.
I see what you did there.
People are probably hearing the music in the background and going,
not to see what you do there.
Exactly.
Also joining us for this particular eye to take shape.
Is a man who the day after the taping of this particular show will be on a plane to the
Great Northeast and has already told me he's not bringing me back any Pomani brothers.
And for that, I hope that he runs into a tree at the airport.
Not with this car, just his body just bumps into a tree and embarrasses himself.
He is the official fact checker of this show.
This show you may know him is found don go.
But his mom and I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Welcome to the show sir.
Oh thank you for having me.
We had not tomorrow or two years.
Pramani brothers.
Which we talked about in the show many times.
We have already.
So whatever we do one of these is usually to review something and this is no exception.
If you know what the song is in the background, you know what we're about to review
because the title of this song is the title of the film.
The film is called as Billy just said.
Or Mr. Joel as I like to call him.
And so it goes.
It is the latest film from a director, a small independent director.
You probably never heard of him.
Guy by the name of Rob Reiner.
Directed by Mark Andrews.
Starring Michael Douglas and Diane Titan are your two majors in this.
But the great Annie Parisi is in this.
And of course you haven't lived until you've seen Rob Reiner in a two pay.
It's all I'm saying.
Basically the story of this.
Michael Douglas plays a character named Orin Little who is a very successful real estate agent
in a small Connecticut town.
Who is trying to sell his family home.
His wife has long since passed away.
And he is living in a small apartment building.
Called Little Shangri-La.
And he basically just the only people that he interacts with
are his neighbors.
One of whom is Lee up played by the great Diane Keaton.
And she's also lost a spouse.
And is trying a second career as a lounge singer.
Basically has a little problem getting through it.
Rob Reiner has a very small role as her piano accompanist.
Again, Rob Reiner too pay.
What else do you need to know?
Yeah.
This is this really is an independent film.
I mean I was joking about Rob Reiner being a small independent director.
But this is not.
I don't think this is going to get a real wide release.
But we've got a chance to see if things to our best friends in the world
that allied integrated marketing.
Some of our favoriteist people ever.
Got to thank them.
Thank you very much guys.
So, Don will start with you.
How was the storyline for you?
If you look at the review which put on the Colbass podcast.com.
Yeah.
Our website there.
We're going to find out our written reviews out.
I kind of put on there.
So many times you see these kind of romance flicks and stuff.
And they are so predictable.
They've been done a thousand times with this new dress put on it.
It's like in Winnie Mandela with the shoes.
You know what I'm saying?
Same fee.
But just different pair of shoes every time.
I thought possibly it could be one of those films.
You're going to know the story before you walk in there.
It's going to be predictable.
I was surprised.
I really didn't see a lot of the stuff in the storyline coming.
There are some predictable parts in there of course.
But overall, I thought with the comedy in there is a ton of comedy in this.
Well, that's a romantic comedy.
There's a ton of comedy which I really enjoyed.
I thought the storyline was very good.
I got the worn empire.
This is not going to be for the entire family.
Do some of the adult style comedy in there.
But maybe teenagers are above.
I find this storyline very good.
So I was very impressed.
I was surprised.
I thought it would be Andrew.
I guess I would say I was impressed with the movie too.
I like how they set up the comedy and they didn't just have any joke in it.
They knocked it out of the park.
There was no punches held back.
Even when it was involving the little children.
You know, an adult talking to like a 10-year-old girl.
And then vice versa.
They had her coming right back at him.
Which brings up the next part of the story where he runs into his strange son.
Who is getting ready to spend at least six months if not nine months.
No.
It was six months with good behavior.
It was nine months with sex.
Nine months, six months, possibly.
We're not going to get into why.
I want you to see the film to find out why.
But he has a daughter.
And he asks her to take care of his granddaughter while he's away.
And her first is very hesitant.
But instead, Leah takes care of her to start with.
And that's where the kind of friendship starts to happen.
And Erin wants to now be her manager and try to get her better work than the bar she's working in.
For me, the first act was really rough.
The first probably 20-25 minutes of this film.
I was really like, oh, this is going to turn into just these two great actors who are.
Some could say in the twilight of their career,
Diane Keaton, I believe, will act forever and ever and ever.
I think Michael Douglas just asked when he wants to.
Which is fine, because the guys got the resume.
Got an Oscar for producing one for the cook who's next.
But, yes, a street cred.
Yeah.
But as the, once you got into the second act,
I thought that it was a lot stronger.
Once the story actually got rolling.
I think I thought that in the beginning there was a little too much.
Okay, we get it.
We get the bit.
We understand who Erin is.
Let's move the story along a little bit.
But once the granddaughter came into the picture,
it was really for me when the story kind of took off and really got moving.
And the second and third act that we're very, very strong in this film.
It's one of those stick with it.
You know, we're setting a lot up.
Just stick with it for the first half an hour.
Because the movie itself runs hour 34.
So it's not very long.
But it's, it's the, I think it's the right amount of time for the story.
They told, I didn't feel like they rushed too much.
I didn't feel like they crammed too much in,
but I also didn't feel like they dragged it out.
From a directing standpoint, Rob Riner is Rob Riner.
This is spinal tap.
Do I need to say anything else?
Princess Bride.
Win Harry Met Sally.
At TV.
I mean, the lesson is on and on.
You know, we Rob Riner, Rob Riner.
It's another one.
He and his father are two of the greatest comedic minds in history.
His father being Carl Riner.
You know, I mean, that's pedigree right there.
It's what you expect from a Rob Riner directed film.
You're going to have no surprises.
Are you going to get some good quality?
It took us from a surprise standpoint.
I think there was a couple of things that I was like, okay, didn't see that coming.
There's a scene where Orrin comes home and finds his dog loose and he doesn't know why.
And when he gets home, he, there was a nice little,
it wasn't what I was expecting to see exactly.
But I mean, it's a good Rob Riner film.
It's nothing.
It's, you know, he's experiencing something totally out of the box with everything like that.
So it's, it's Rob Riner direction and usually he can't go wrong with something like that.
I don't know if the battle cat is joined us.
Just kind of hanging out like he does.
Andrew, what did you think about Riner's direction?
Pacing.
I understand why at the beginning.
Very slow.
Relied on just too many stupid jokes.
Well, not stupid.
I want to say just kind of obvious humor.
obvious humor.
Okay.
And I was very bored and I thought, is there any way to salvage this?
And that was the same way.
I was like, please don't with the next hour and half of my life be like this.
And luckily, it wasn't.
Yeah.
The little girl, I think is the most important character in the movie.
Well, I said, I said to my written review that she is where she's the turning point in the film.
Yeah.
Like, if it wasn't for her, it would just be 90 minutes of people making terrible jokes that you're like.
And which, which then leads us into their performances.
She was, she wasn't this cute, see little kid.
And it can be, I'm a little kid.
Like, she played it straight.
Like, she played certain reactions.
Like, there's a scene where, um, or it goes looking for her mother because he wants the mother
to take care of the child, but they don't know where the mother is because the son is a recovering
addict.
And so is the mother.
And her reaction in that scene is borderline heartbreaking.
Um, and he could tell the character change of dust right then.
And it was, and I really thought that she kind of made Keaton and Doug was kind of up there
game a little bit because I think that they saw her performance.
And it was like, this isn't just some kid that's just going to sit around all day.
She's, she came to play, you know.
And I think it really kind of forced them to up the game.
And I thought it, it actually improved their chemistry on screen.
I thought what the, the girl there, when she added in.
Uh, by the way, played by the great Sterling journalists.
Yeah, who was during during the college.
Who was on World War Z in the college?
She was, um, she really played a kid who, she played that role perfect.
I thought she was in a sit.
She didn't, like you're saying, be in the happy go lucky.
But God emotional when a child in that situation, not knowing what's going on.
Really gets that emotional and then after things kind of cool off of like that moment.
We talked about just a few seconds ago.
She's back to like, oh, yeah, I don't want to hear again.
And she just looked at the normal kid again, but she got emotional on the points where she did to and tried to be
a normal kid between that.
So I think she nailed it very good.
Well, and something I was talking to Andrew about is I was thinking, you know, maybe I'd be coming
to cynical, but there were a couple of points in the film that I was worried that was going to
take kind of a dark turn and it never did, which was good for me.
And I don't really want to go into when, but you'll see there's a couple of points in the film
where you're going to go, oh, this can't go well.
And then it kind of does.
So I think we're just so used to that shock value in film that it's refreshing to see a film
where it's like, you know, let's just tell you a story and enjoy ourselves for nine minutes.
That we're not, you know, we're not out for shock value and we're not out to in rage.
We just want you to see a good story about people who can change and people who affect each other.
And kind of like chef where there was no, you know, shock value there.
Which is kind of new and refreshing like you're saying.
Now, I will say something. I'll go ahead and say good.
It has, I think movies have come full circle now in the fact that when there's no shock value, that in itself is shocking.
That's fair point.
I mean, you see these things and you're like, oh, that is a normal thing.
Did you just get meta on me just now?
I think so.
It's the beard.
It's the beard.
It's the beard.
You are the Brian Wilson of this show.
Like, once again to go wrong, once again to go wrong.
Oh, it doesn't go wrong.
And it cameo in this film by this guy.
Frankie Valley makes a very small appearance in this film.
He plays a club owner.
Oh, okay.
That was he.
Yeah, that was Frankie Valley.
I saw him in the opening credits.
And I was like, where's Frankie Valley?
It's going in that there is.
So that was kind of fun.
I mean, there's still reason for him to be in the film.
But it was just kind of nice.
You know.
It is kind of a credibility.
Yeah.
Stand out performance.
Because I know who mine is.
And it's in my written review as well.
Obviously, the girl.
The girl, of course, that I called the big four.
Douglas, Keaton, the girl.
And the guy who plays his father.
I mean, who plays a son.
The girl's father.
Oh, thank you.
He even though he's not in there with that.
Scott Shepherd plays Luke.
Okay.
He, he did an incredible incredible job on that.
I thought.
You saw, you saw in his expressions and his mannerisms.
But this was a guy that really wants the best for his daughter.
Right.
And unfortunately, the best is probably the last person he wants to talk to you about it.
Right.
But, you know, for me, stand out performance.
Country mile.
His Francis Sternhagen is Claire.
Yes.
His friend at the real estate agency.
She is genius in this film.
She's got great comedic timing.
She plays off the, the, I'm old.
So maybe I've got some of my old ways.
But maybe some I don't.
Brilliant performance by her.
Like, when they're, the first time that you see her and
Orin in the, the restaurant watching, watching Leah sing.
And she's smoking in the lady says, man, there's no smoking here.
She's like, oh, it's okay.
I'm glad you don't.
She just keeps popping.
Just her, her performance to me was stand out because she, to me, this seemed less,
I mean, it seemed less like there was a bunch of
Ancillary characters, but it seemed more to me like an ensemble film.
Right.
You know, even the people that lived in the apartment building,
you didn't feel were just like window dressing.
You felt that they were part of the thing.
And, but it wasn't enough to go, okay, now we have too many characters.
But it was just enough to go, oh, so there's these other stories that
That inner squind that not only helped the main story,
But it helps you understand Orin a little better.
It does.
Which I thought was great.
And her grandson in the film actually played a pretty.
Oh, yes.
Really role.
Yes.
Of, of understanding or, he brought to her attention how to get,
And, like, he brought the information to her that way he,
She could get it out of Orin, you know,
Get it through his head that you need to be this way.
Well, I had a good minor character, the donuts.
Yes.
I, I will say this.
There's one, one aspect of this film,
And in Ranger and I talked about this,
That there requires a lot of suspense of disbelief.
And since our show normally on Sunday night to the seventies from four Pacific,
It's your one stop shop for all things sports and entertainment.
I will tell you it is a sports reference.
That they make that requires a lot of suspension of disbelief.
And that's all I'm going to say about that.
If you don't catch it.
Email me rob with the clubhousepodcast.com
And I'll tell you what it is.
Uh, I said that to Andrew and Andrew.
It's hot on you.
It's hot on you.
I can't.
Not since the early nineties.
Anything else before we get to the final analysis gentleman?
Overall, I, I, I, I was surprised.
And by the thought overall it was a really, really good flick.
And it'd be good for a, a good night, date night possibly.
Well, well, well, we got to the reviews and happen.
I'll also get one more time.
Thank you.
Everybody's at that light.
I like the marketing.
They take care of us so much and we love them so much.
The final analysis on this show where we give you our actual,
We don't give you like a number ranking or a thumbs up thumbs down or a letter grade
Because you are the empire and you are better than that.
We will not insult your intelligence.
But what we will do for you is we'll ask a two-prong question.
The first part of the question is, would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
If the answer is yes, then it goes to, how would you see this film again?
Would you see it in first run in an evening show?
Would you check it out at a twilight show in the five o'clock hour?
Which tends to be a little cheaper?
Would you see it at a matinee?
Would you go early morning?
Would you wait for it in second run?
Would you rent it slash buy it on blue right or DVD?
Or would you wait for it on cable?
Andrew, we go to you first.
Would you see this film again?
I would see this film again.
You would see this film again.
So let's go to the second part of the question.
How would you see this film again?
If you were, if you were going to go see it again.
This would be a great midday viewing with a,
You're, with a significant, yeah, with a ladies.
Yes, exactly.
You know, pre five o'clock so you don't have to pay too much.
Because it might get a little heavy and you don't want to talk about that one day.
Fair enough.
Done.
Would you see this film again?
Yeah, I would see the movie again.
Okay.
So how would you see it again?
I would see it as a matinee, but my recommendation to the empire is a,
Twilight, you know, be a very good date night flick, I think.
That's so opposite of what Andrew would say, not it.
He said not necessarily a date night flick, but you saying it is a date night flick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See the matinee and then go to dinner after discuss, you know, relationships with the date.
Or a good family with teens or above kind of family flick.
And possibly matinee or a twilight also.
See, I don't see it as a family film in any way shape or form.
I think it's interesting that you do.
And that's the beauty of this show is that we have differing opinions on things.
For me, I would love to see this movie again.
I really enjoyed it.
I might fast forward the first 20 minutes and get to the meat of a thing because I've already seen it.
But I think that I agree with Andrew probably a midday, you know, maybe you're going to go do something
afterwards and kind of start your afternoon off with a viewing of this film.
Also, would have no issue with it if I was clicking through the channels and it was on, you know, like HBO or something.
You know, I don't know that I'd own it on DVD because as I'm getting older and getting more selective on what I own on DVD.
I'm sorry, blue right because I am a blue race now.
But by all accounts, a good film, go check this film out.
The film is called, and so it goes, Michael Douglas Diane Keaton, directed by the great Rob Riner written by the great Mark Andrews, who we didn't give him any credits.
This is the guy that wrote his good as it gets a life as a house with Hayden Christianson, Georgia rule with almost.
Lindsey low and right as the, as the tide turned.
And the divine secrets of the Yaya Cisterhood, so this guy knows Chick Flex.
And this wasn't, I wouldn't even consider this a Chick Flex.
But it was, you know, I didn't feel like I had to hand my man card in before I walked in and then had to collect it on the way out.
So go check this film out.
Thanks again to our friends that allied in a great marketing for letting us check this film out.
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