iTunes Exclusive Episode Brigsby Bear

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If you can hear the sound of my voice the following conditions have been met at least once in your life you have listened to the clubhouse podcasts live every Sunday night seven eastern for Pacific your one-stop shop for all things pop culture but it also means you so listen to the show on your favorite podcast app because it is time for another iTunes exclusive can't even put a number on this because we're seeing this one way in advance so just check your item description to find out what number this is welcome my name is Rob and I like a little tv every once and again it's how I roll but I'm not alone for this episode joining me across the desk as he tends to do from time to time is the official fact checker of this show and a man who's seen a bear at least once in his life you may know him as fond don go but his mama name him don't ford I'm gonna call him don ford welcome sir yostom park yeah can you turn my headphones up a little bit over there don't please yeah sure someone closest to you there we go that's a little better we are here today to review something because that's what we do in these particular episodes it's what we're known for the director is Dave McCarrie you would know him mostly from epic rap battles of history on the on the YouTubes it is called Briggs Me Bear for what's up this whole thing yes sir you ready to sing yep I'm not in a great marketing gotta thank them Josh the whole crew we love them they're our best friends this is gonna be a tricky episode yes it is because we can't talk too much about what this film is yes so here's what you need to know going in this movie stars Kyle Mooney who you might know from Saturday Night Live he plays oh I lost my place here he plays a young man named James yep James 25 years old okay smart kid yeah knows what he's doing lives kind of an isolated life in the desert you can say that spends a lot of time watching his favorite program called Briggs Me Bear on VHS on VHS because that's how he rolls he lives with Ted and his wife April played by Jane Adams who whom you might remember from HBO's hung and the great Mark Campbell looks guy Walker yes amongst other things and then the show gets canceled abruptly it was like 270 weekly episodes and he had a mall and video cassette watch them all through has discussion boards about it and when the show ends he's not happy with the way it ended so he decides he's going to finish the story of Briggs Me Bear himself yes that's as far as I'm going because that's as far as IMDB goes that's as far as I'm going to go this film runs about an hour 40 it's not very long but it's a film that we're specifically being very very vague about because to me a good chunk of my enjoyment of this film is experiencing this film knowing very very little because a lot of people if we gave it away people probably I don't know if people would get it as well and they don't see it themselves it's a wonderfully written script it's shot in a very independent film style but it has its own style I guess if that makes any sense and I think it's a really great story Don you're you're you're looking at me kind of yeah I'm like yeah I'm trying to microphone so I'm really trying I'm really trying to be very careful on my words on this we have to be as because the emotion of this film requires you to be spoiler free yes and let me say this that this is spoiler free absolutely about my words on this he's dealing with a lot of life issues uh-huh that's as we all are yes because of the shoving cancel but the thing I liked about this film there are a lot of turns in twist you do not see coming there's a lot of layers to it absolutely and a lot of times there's those big twists and they say them for the end there's a lot of twists through this whole thing even starting in the first quarter of the film we can put it to you this way don't get the large soda yes because you're not going to be in the theater here long anyway and don't show a plate yeah be be early yes stay stay through the end go to the bathroom five minutes for the start time as I did yes and don't leave because their twist in turns through this whole thing start to finish absolutely and um the thing I liked about this film is it it shows the life issues very well of because of the shoving council it's real in a different way yes does that is that I think is that the reason they're trying to show these changes in a very good way and I think they do it in this I agree with you I totally agree with you because there are some major life issues and changes that's all I'm going to say that and when it hits you're you really feel for the character you you really really feel I think um hold on sorry you okay uh which character are you asking about oh that the lead character played by Mooney there James James yeah um he he does incredible in this acting Kyle Mooney is a guy that I'm sorry nightlife tends to play kind of like kooky just like millennial type characters and he takes that style and he adapts it to James very very well with by and makes James a likable sympathetic character yes we're in an SNL you're kind of used to see him play these slacker kind of roles where you're just kind of like dude get out of my face but here he takes that kind of style and turns into a character that you genuinely care about the welfare of and you're very very understanding due to these life changes absolutely and I think his acting is one of the best roles he has ever done okay because when you really think about it because luckily done SNL and stuff like this but when you take him and put this him in this situation of this film I I put my upcoming written review at www.kobasbalcast.com that is our website that I think what I just said is that I think this was one of his best roles he's ever done and because the way he and really the first time he's been asked to really carry a film too yes and he does incredible in it playing the situations that he deals with um of course the cast is good you know you know what what what handle with Danes you know what you're going to get and I think they're acting the audience also in this the great great kineer is in this yes so I mean there's some there's Makilla Watkins so I'm a big fan of as well so I mean even I thought that Ryan Simpkins plays Aubrey plays um his sister that's not giving anything away his sister she does really good and even the changes in her life in style through this film she does that very well also I think Matt Walsh is also in this he's one of those that guy and that thing people when you see him like oh I know that guy he's very very good in this a very strong cast a very strong script it's executed well it's I I really can't even describe the style of it like I said it's very independent but it's not indie you know what I mean like it's not art for art sake but you know it wasn't shot in a huge bunch yes it's not a huge bunch of film and it hasn't been kind of kind of look but it's not going to be an artsy film like something from Terence Malik thank god imagine Terence Malik trying to do this one but let's speak that name yes do not even invoke that name but I really love how the film starts off just with the VHS mm-hmm it starts off with roles and really I mean there's so much to the story and we were talking to Josh and the guys afterwards like the only way you can do a trailer for this without giving anything away is just show the opening sequence where he's watching the show and that's it and maybe say that the show was canceled and I'm gonna finish the show I think I mean yeah you really can't you could just yeah I mean you have to do you have to be so vague because the again the power in this and that really that emotion that carries it is to be spoiler free going in and I think they could do a trailer where there's a scene where he goes I want to finish the movie you know and this is but this is also going to be one of those where I'm telling people that when this does release and you go see it do your friends a favor and don't tell them what's coming yeah talk about it after you see it absolutely I agree with you 100 percent but I think that trailer could be done but tricky but I think it would be very very tricky to do but the show is canceled and I want to finish the movie and it shows him finishing the movie but that's a good way to do it I think so I mean but because they really can't get into the depth of the life challenges in a trailer I agree you can't you can't really address anything outside of the just the basics without giving something away and I almost did myself not knowing and I'm really really trying hard not to because on one thing I think and hunter agrees with me yes yes I think it's I was seeing the film going this way and then when there's this big change it's like oh it's going this yeah it's like oh there's I mean there's a lot of guesswork it's not one of those formulaic style films it's got a good heart to it there's certain things that are that are normal to film but there's a lot of really really refreshing elements to this too where you go you know what I'm glad they did it that way yeah and one thing I will say is that I thought that the film as watching it these changes give me a lot of questions mm-hmm and I'm thinking but as a film it goes on there's a lot of answers to those questions as it goes on agree you know you know I'm going to say very spoiler-free is for instance you learn about one of the cast members from Big B bear is I'm going to say mm-hmm okay one of the the stars of the TV show as far as it needs to get that's what I'm going to say that's being very spoiler-free but you know it really with those changes I was this is so hard but I like the film I'm money also co-wrote the script along with Kevin Costello and Costello I'm sorry it's a really really good film and I just I'm looking forward to people seeing it when it does release because again we saw this way in advance yeah it's about to they don't even have a release day yet while we're when we are recording this there's not even a summary release day because they're trying to get it figured out and we've been told that we did see the final cut so we can review this early enough so that we don't have to re-review it which is nice really I mean there's not much else to do but get to the final analysis yeah I want to say a shout out for not any role Michael's to come here but yeah he does really get in there's a solid cast overall I'd like this film there's some good emotional but good comedy in it there's some great comedy in this film along with some very good emotional issues absolutely but I wanted to say also that there are some adult there are themes to this you know there are some adult jokes don't warn you on this you know just to be fair to the empire absolutely all right let's go to the final analysis the way we do the final analysis on this show we're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down we're not going to give you letter of grades or bare faces or anything like that we're going to ask two questions question number one is would you see this film again if the answers know then we're done here but if the answer is yes then there's a sliding scale that we have because we measure it by how far you'd be willing to go to see it again from top to bottom the spectrum runs like this first run into theater twilight matinee early morning second run at the dollar theater actually leaving your house to go get it from red box streaming it on Netflix or watching it on cable done would you see this film again oh yeah how far you want to go I would say twilight matinee twilight so you're right there on the edge okay yeah all right I would see this again I would pay full price to see it so you give it to the coveted it's one of those I want to see it with people not knowing anything and I can watch their reactions and I can still enjoy this film for what it is yes it's just that well done and I'm really looking forward to being able to share this film with people when it releases and by the time you hear this it will be available to you because our friends at I think it's to us I'm got think Josh the whole crew there we love their best friends such fans one thing I'm interested in uh huh it's seen the trailer when to get to see how the trailer works out yeah and how they how they pull that out okay so let's end it it is brings me bear directed by Dave McCarrie go check it out let's do the plugs visit our website the aforementioned www dot the clubhouse podcast dot com find out everything you need to know and some stuff you don't follow us on social media twitter is clubhouse show everything else is the clubhouse podcast all three words in that order or you wind up somewhere else you can follow me on social media everything is yes that rob urban that is spelled in my co-hosts for this show is Chad Womack can follow him on social media chat npg69 and I'm at 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film and nobody wants to deal with that