iTunes Exclusive Episode Beyond The Brick A Lego Brickumentary

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It is the 122nd one of these greetings.
My name is Rob, but I'm not ashamed to say when I was a kid.
There were many, many laser guns constructed out of plastic that I made myself that did nothing but fall apart.
Because I made them too large.
I didn't understand physics.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode.
Joining me across the desk is my co-host.
And a man that would give just about anything for a Lego Millennium Falcon.
But wouldn't we all be as chat?
Welcome sir.
Indeed, I would.
Although you know if I had the choice though, I'd rather have the Tumblr.
Oh, well, no kidding, you'd rather have the Tumblr.
Now, where would I put it?
Actually, I'd rather start a story.
The lovely intelligence is heard and might have something to say about that.
Probably.
Also joining me across the desk is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man who not only enjoys Lego, but sometimes he has to follow that with Ego.
You may know I'm as fun Don Go, but his mom and even Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford, welcome sir.
Unless and two weeks, I'm going to be in heaven.
My Pramonti, for others.
I thought you could put him in South Florida now.
So next summer when I'm down there, I will try it.
So I'm going to be in heaven.
Very much looking forward to that.
Whenever we do one of these, it is to review something this particular episode is no different.
We're here today to review a documentary.
Done by longtime documentary directors, Keith Davidson and Daniel Young.
I really hope I can cut that right.
And it is all about the wonderment that is Lego.
It is called Beyond the Brick, a Lego brickumentary.
See what they did there, I see what they did there.
In the Dallas Fort Worth area, be showing at the Angelica Film Center.
And if you go opening weekend, there's going to be a huge almost an exhibit of people that have made
taking their favorite films and built them out of Lego.
I may just drop by just to see that.
If you want to book that, let me know.
I'll have to figure it out now.
That's pretty dark on cool in my personal opinion.
Right there with you.
Before we get in.
Yes sir.
We got to think of our best friends.
All right.
And a great in marketing.
Ashley, everybody out like thinking for inviting us to this thing.
They're too good to us.
They really truly are.
Coming up on our second anniversary of them helping us out.
This is a bit that long two years ago in August.
God.
August of 2013 when all of us for the first time went to a press screening.
And that was a little bit before that.
Right.
I'm just going to say the first time we all went together for the Grand Master.
Well, you know, when you're in a great relationship, the time just kind of flies.
Indeed, especially with people that are as good to us as they are.
And they are all great people.
So, I mean, it's a 93 minute documentary.
It's not real long.
I mean, what else do you need to say?
It's about the history of Lego from the beginning to its current pop culture impact.
I mean, what else do you need to say?
And it's been huge.
It's part of society.
So check this out with you.
Let's talk about because this, this isn't your normal documentary.
You can't really pitch and hold it.
I mean, it's because of the subject matter.
I mean, because of what Lego is.
It permeates every culture and sub-culture and every genre and sub-genre of media.
It's, it's, it's one of those things that can't be clearly defined.
It is narrated in Lego minifigure form by Jason Bateman.
But you know I'm a huge fan of.
Yes.
And the song you're hanging right on the background is also part of the documentary.
This is the Ed Sheeran Lego house song.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Done.
You know, through the history of our reviews that I love documentaries.
And as I'm getting older, I'm really, truly getting a more well-founded appreciation
for the documentary and many of you are in that self.
Now, if I can speak English.
Being good and bad on this thing.
If you go to my written review at the clubhouseplacast.com.
That is our website.
I put on this that this could have easily been a discovery channel documentary also.
When you really think about, you say that.
What do you mean by that?
That it would fit in that genre of being something that would be a good show
onto the discovery channel and not a full front of movie.
They're ticketing.
For more of the standpoint of like a how it's made kind of a thing.
Or just like one of their shows.
One of their shows.
Okay, fair enough.
Fair enough.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
I think they're doing a gamble by trying to do this film instead of doing it for something
for like the discovery channel or one of those HBO documentaries that they do every
Monday night.
The Tuesday nights.
Mondays.
No.
HBO premieres are documentaries on Tuesday.
Usually Mondays.
But I watched those all the time.
But regardless, it was a very good documentary from watching these as many as I have.
And I thought like say it could have been something on the discovery channel.
But still, it was very interesting.
I liked how it had that documentary feel.
But their narration remind me of the Lego movie,
which I also put in my written review at the club.
Ask podcast.
Which I wish kind of would have been a bigger player in this thing.
It's very briefly kind of glossed over.
I don't know of this because they were still working on it at the time.
But I kind of feel like the Lego movie didn't have enough of a presence in this thing.
But very informative.
I like how the flow.
How it went from one section to the next.
Oh, I did it.
A ton of stuff in society.
You know.
And a little side note.
They how they're using this in autism.
Children with autism is therapy.
There's a lady I work with who has a child who's autistic.
And I actually told her about what they're doing in the film.
She's actually looking into that because oh, my son loves.
Yeah, which is when that comes closer to the end of the documentary.
So I want our audience to be aware of that.
It's just the whole history how it's in society.
How it started, how they almost went bankrupt.
And then how it's such a big major part of society around the planet,
which is so amazing.
In a simple toy could be the number two toy company in the world.
And there's a reason for that.
Yeah.
Oh.
Breakhouse.
You're welcome internet.
Thank you.
For me, I liked how this was a departure from your average documentary.
It's not in the 1960s.
Oh.
The.
That to rebound down.
Yeah.
It didn't take itself too seriously.
It was hard.
It was fun.
I like how instead of using archival footage.
They just re-enact everything with Legos.
Like what better way to do it.
Yeah.
You've got the tools at your disposal.
And it's showing some of these kids that are using Lego to make films.
I think I don't have that kind of patience.
It's cool.
But there's no way I could do it.
I really like that kind of departure from the standard.
Because I think this is kind of a documentary that can appeal to a wider audience for that reason.
And how you have a couple of the different.
Storylines that end up weaving themselves in together towards the end.
Right.
In New York City.
I thought that was kind of brilliant.
We can't really talk about performance here because it's a documentary.
What I really like though is they really, really kind of went deep on some of the interview subjects.
People like Dwight Howard Center for the Houston Rockets.
Yeah.
You didn't see that one coming.
Yeah.
One of the creators of South Park.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I thought was great.
And just all these different people that love Lego.
And people that you've never, there's a God that's didn't entire art installation.
That's traveling the world right now.
Yeah.
Major art galleries and stuff.
And it's all Lego.
And it's, and it's not like, okay.
So it's like Lego.
Like it's impressive.
Yeah.
I mean, this guy put something into it.
He's done.
He does original pieces and he does recreations of classic pieces.
And they're really well done.
And then guy who made a house out of.
Yeah.
But that was that was kind of glossed over.
But yeah.
There was a guy that has an England who was a.
Yeah.
He's one of the guys from top gear.
That made it fully functional house.
Yeah.
And there's, they talk about there's a professor that's still to this day to anything
Aren't how many possible combinations of brick there is.
And it's like in the quadrillion.
Something like that.
Yeah.
I just, I liked how it was kind of all over the place, but it was still organized.
Mm-hmm.
You got to see how diverse and don't even get me started on the story line of the lady that
goes to the convention.
I'm not even going to give that away.
I'm leaving that well alone.
I want people to see that for the first time going cold.
But they visit somebody's Lego conventions because they're as we all know.
There's a convention for everything.
I mean everything.
And will there be a piece of the population that will use this as comedic father?
Absolutely.
Of course they will.
Because those are the people that don't understand what it's like to have a passion for something.
And I feel bad for those people.
I do too.
It must be, it must really suck to be that cynical about life.
Who did not love Lego since a kid?
I never had a Lego set as a kid and I always wanted one.
I don't know.
I don't know that I ever had a Lego system.
I might have had like the pregos.
You know what I mean?
Because again, make them awesome.
You know, didn't grow up rich money wise.
Yeah.
You know, grew up rich with love.
I was living a very loving household, but we didn't have a lot.
But if I was at a buddy's house and he had Legos, oh, it was on.
Oh yeah.
We're making a mess.
Yeah.
And just to see how close the company got to just falling apart.
No pun intended.
Which is really shocking.
It didn't shot me because I knew that going in.
No, but I'm just with the company that had that level of success.
And they were really starting to just kind of,
Well, they didn't listen to the bass and showed how they turned around.
And now a normal person, if they have the ingenuity,
can make something and actually when a prize where they will make that thing that you
Invent.
There's a big number.
There's a big number.
He gets like 1% of the sales.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the company saying we're listening to the public.
There are some people in the entertainment industry that could probably learn a couple of things from people like this.
Oh, that's big name.
Oh, we're not saying we're just saying.
And I'm going to be honest with you.
So I mean, it was very refreshing to me.
Phil Lord Christopher Miller.
Same guys that we met four months ago.
Yeah, pretty much.
Where would we meet them before?
That would be the Delts right now.
That's the only show in the episode in the history of this show.
That's got an explicit tag on it for a reason.
And I don't, but I don't know.
I think it was because of them.
Was it?
Were there?
Oh, they were just all over.
They got a little saw.
But they were, but they were the same.
It wasn't.
It was refreshing to me to see those guys because I'm like,
Those are the guys that we met.
You know, stuff like that where you can actually show the right side of people.
And realize that there's not just a manufacturer.
And how they, my favorite, one of my favorite ones is,
We're really hoping that we can get some Lego when this is open.
I'm like, you got the whole set.
What are you talking about?
But how they show that they have a contest every year,
where people submit their ideas for Lego.
It's the Japanese word for wish.
And I came into such a scene.
But they show that whole process of the finalists.
And the guy that wins, I'm not going to say who it was.
But not what I was expecting.
No.
Yeah.
And just, it's a really good, feels good story.
Or even a series of feel good stories.
That, when we walked out, I was like, you know what?
That was fun.
Yeah.
And getting to see, you know, like Don talked about the autism therapy story line alone.
Yeah.
That just, I sat there and I was like,
That is so flipping cool.
But they can use that as, as a, as a bridge.
Yeah.
And we're talking published studies from the results of what this guy legitimate studies.
Yes.
Show show true results.
Anything else we want to talk about before we get to the final analysis?
Well, you know, like I said, I did like the documentary,
but on the flow, like you were saying earlier,
it kind of reminded me of the Tina Fey documentary we saw,
but my kingdom.
Yeah.
Now she, the way she did it, made that movie so much better versus the old 60 year old guy.
Right.
She liked how they really had Batman.
Really narrate in that Lego movie style.
It made it something totally different.
It did get slow for me in a few points.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it was good, but it definitely didn't feel like 93 minutes.
No matter how much you love these toys, unless you're one of these people in the movie,
you're going to learn something about Lego.
She never think of it.
He fall.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's such a, a cornerstone of society when you think about it.
It's something so simple.
You know, I love documentaries.
I love this thing.
But I think it could have been a discovery channel thing,
but they're taking the jump on it, which I got to give them for.
You know.
And if you want to point of reference,
the Lego movie is only seven minutes longer than this.
Really?
Lego movie's 100 minutes.
Anything else where we get to find one out?
I kind of got the same feeling from this that I got walking out of the Raiders documentary.
I had the same feeling of,
I don't know that I can say that.
No, no, I'm just saying as far as heartening back to to something from our childhood
that we grew up with and we wanted to know a little bit more about you saw a side of it
that you had never seen before and didn't think you ever would.
Because you didn't think anybody would take that kind of time.
Fair enough.
How would you do something about it?
And I say, I love Lego's except man today.
They're just so expensive.
That's the only ripe I have about the whole thing.
If all no.
I was waiting for it.
No.
That's that may be my favorite choice.
You're welcome in and out.
You're welcome.
And what is that never mind?
Yeah.
But, you know, I just don't make my gripe business out.
They are getting expensive.
You look at some of these sets now.
They've been expensive.
They've been really cheap.
If anybody wants to buy me the tumbler set, I'm totally okay with it.
Don't get me wrong.
Or the hell a carrier or something.
Talk about not having any room for something.
You have to get rid of your car.
The other place I would fit in isn't like a rod.
I have to hang it from the ceiling in the studio.
That'd be told.
Yeah.
Of course the ceiling fan wouldn't work anymore.
No, we need that.
But again, we got to think Ashley and everybody at Ally.
Thanks again for inviting us.
Some of our favorite people.
This was a really good time.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you guys.
The way we do the final analysis on this show.
We don't give you letter grades.
We don't give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We don't give you stars.
We don't give you rankings.
One to ten.
Our audience.
The empire is better than that.
The way we do it.
It's two questions.
Question number one.
What do you see this film again?
The answer is no.
Then we're done here.
The answer is yes.
The follow-up question is how far are you going to go to see it?
You want to pay full price in the evening?
You want to pay Twilight price?
Matinee?
Early morning on Saturday?
Second run at the dollar theater?
Do you want to go to the red box and get it?
You want to stream it on Netflix?
You're going to wait for it on cable.
Don't.
Would you see this film again?
Oh definitely.
Because I'm a sucker for documentaries.
How far are you going to go?
I would probably see it in recommended as a matinee.
Okay.
Okay.
Chad, would you see this again?
I would.
How so?
Not that it's a.
It's it's not one of those.
Films that you really get a kick out of watching in a theater.
I want to see this one.
It hits blue ray and get all the stuff that we didn't get in the theatrical cut.
Okay.
I would love to see a fully loaded fully loaded blue ray with all the extras.
I would see it again, but I think I would be more tempted to go than Netflix route with it.
I'm curious about what was cut out, but not enough to do blue ray.
Because that would mean I have to buy it.
Well, because you can't run it with all the special features.
True, but I'd be willing to do that because I think that I'm sure the commentary track is probably going to be pretty deep and insightful.
I might buy it used.
Yeah.
Regardless, that's the way I would rather watch it on a home theater with all the bells and whistles of blue ray.
Fair enough.
Anything else for me?
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