iTunes Exclusive Episode Chuck

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Okay, maybe just my headphones, I don't know, fair enough.
Or maybe I'm just going deaf for this too, or insane, I'll lean towards that.
Whatever we do one of these things, it is to review something in this particular episode
is no exception.
Director of Philly Baffa La Dure, has a brand new film, it is called Chuck, before I
start this whole thing.
Yes sir.
You ready to see?
I am Ad Alight, he is great in marketing.
Got to take out, Melissa, everybody Alight, we love him, they are best friends.
Here's what you need to know, Leive Schreiber, Elizabeth Moss, Naomi Watts, Jim Gaffigan,
Michael Rappaport, Ron Perlman, have I already told you?
Pretty much, this is the based on the true story of one Chuck Weppner.
Now you may hear that name and you may not even know who that is.
He is a heavyweight boxer from Bayon, New Jersey, who is known as the heavyweight champion
of New Jersey.
He ends up getting a fight right after the rumble in the jungle, where he gets a shot
at the title, where he goes 12 seconds shy of a full 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali.
And like a couple years later, that story becomes a little movie called Rocky.
But that's just the beginning of this story.
This thing runs about an hour, 40.
We got to check it out and I'm going to be honest with you.
I kept spending a lot of time watching this film I was going.
Some of this looks familiar until it gets to the very, very end.
And I remember I've seen this trailer, I saw this trailer forever ago, really.
Yes.
And I was like, wow, this looks really, really interesting.
And it just kind of went away, because it was actually done last year, originally called
the Bleeder, because that was his nickname, is the Bayon Bleeder.
But they chose not to use that title, because people would think it was a horror movie.
That's why they changed the title.
So they made it sound like an NBC series, right?
Painting on your perspective.
It's kind of what?
Yeah, that's true.
I mean, this film is at its core about a man who has all the talents in the world,
and they call him the Bleeder, because he can take a punch like nobody's business, take
several.
But he just can't handle all the things that come with it.
Yeah, he can't get out of his mouth.
Elizabeth Moss plays his wife who has to deal with all of this, that he's dealing
with, but on a completely different level.
You've got Jim Gaffigan playing his best friend slash in A-Barr.
Michael Rappaport plays his brother, Naomi Watts plays a bartender he meets later, and they
actually were together, until right before or right during the filming of this film.
Yeah, I think they're, they're, they're off screen relationship ended right around the
time.
I'm leaving.
Yeah, we haven't.
Yeah, we haven't.
And can you only watch the same in two movies?
No.
Like, that's part of her versatility is like, I get to the end of the movie, it's like,
oh, that was Naomi Watts.
It's crazy, but I really dug this film.
I will say, you know, the demons really hit him with hitting the fame.
That's the best way.
And they weren't ashamed to talk about it in this film.
No.
No, that was, that was almost the crux of the whole thing I think was just, what are
you willing to give up for fame and what are you able to handle?
And how do you cope with it once you have it?
Absolutely.
And I think that was the huge part of this film was, you know, yeah, I'm famous.
But yeah, and part of it, too, is he really didn't have the structure of people around
him, not just his friends, because you have your friends, but sometimes you have to
have business people around you, too.
Not just Ron Pearlman who played his trainer slash manager, slash agent, slash everything.
Yeah.
Well, back in that day, does that how it really happened though?
You know where the guy at the gym made the calls for, you know, you know, two words for
you.
Don King, Don King, you had the guys that were doing this, but he just wasn't
big time enough to make the kind of money required.
And then when he did get some of the fame and fortune, he didn't have the people around
him that we're going to help foster him.
And so all these situations that he wound up getting himself into was one thing would lead
to another and then the thing spins out of control.
And we don't want to go too deep into it, because we want people to see the film.
But I think that this film portrays that really honestly, and in a way that's unashained
of itself.
And I really dug that.
And you know that Webner had his blessing on it, because he has a cameo in the film.
So, and we have Shriver, dear God, I said it in my written review that is currently located
and it always will be located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
Surprisingly, that's our website.
This guy could be the most underrated actor of our generation.
Yeah.
And narrator.
Well, no, he's not underrated as narrator, because everybody knows him, because he narrates
everything.
It's a lot of people don't know about it.
Oh, that's a guy that does the HBO, so no way I think he's underrated too, but yeah.
His performance here, like, if you've seen him at a Ray Donovan, things like that,
which he even changes his cadence in this, this film shares a little bit of DNA with
that show too.
A little bit, it's kind of like a gateway drug to watching Ray Donovan if you really want
to be honest.
But this guy just brings it every time, and he really brings it here.
And I think that, uh, I said this also in my written review, Elizabeth Moss is right on
the edge of being an in-demand, a list actress.
You think she's, like, going to be the next Edgar, I don't know, it girl, but she's
going to be the next.
I could put her on a level with a Kate Blanchette, really.
But not like the first person that comes to your mind and a lot of things, but the
first person that's should.
And she has great chemistry with him as the wife who loves her husband, but everybody
has their line.
Yeah.
And you can see that in her, and for me, the biggest deal in this whole thing is Gaffigan.
He was unrecognizable to me.
So I knew who was right away, because you know I'm a huge fan of the Gaffigan, and his
performance in this, if you talk about leaving it all out there, he does in this, because
you really see the type of person that his best friend was, where man, I wanted, I want
to be protective of you, and I want you to be happy.
But I don't know how to handle it when to get you there.
Plus he helps in some of his ideas, but he, but he enables him because he doesn't want
to see his best friend suffer.
Right.
And at the same token, I think he was enjoying some of the French benefits of the country.
Oh, he absolutely was, but everything that comes with it, every choice you make comes
with a price, good battery, different.
And I think Gaffigan shows his dramatic ranges, you know, he's going to be in the upcoming
telling of a chap of quick, yes, as well.
So to see Jim Gaffigan kind of spreading his wings a little bit in a film like this, it
was really refreshing, and I'm so happy for the dude, because I've been a fan of him for
so long.
It's good to see him diversify.
This thing is shot beautifully, it's a great script.
There were moments where it might have dragged a little bit, but nothing that took away
for me.
I mean, it moves nicely.
I've seen films that were better pasted, but I've also seen films that were a lot worse
pasted than this.
Yeah.
But if you go to my written video, www, that's called last podcast, that's come.
Still our podcast kids.
Hey, I put on their historically correct on the 70s look.
You remind me of that free fire, you know what, that look at that, which we saw recently.
Yeah, with this sententame, same, you know, times, they kept it well.
And it had the same kind of cinematography feel.
But if you look at the cars, the TV, all those props were time period.
They had a old school trinitron, he was watching it and went quiet.
And I was like, I don't remember when they went to, like, that was like, good to take
a second mortgage on your house to get one of those things.
Well, my thing, I thought maybe it was about 10 minutes too long or just about 10 minutes.
Yeah, that'd be my big complaint, if anything.
Still, in the story, it is predictable in a lot of the train wrecks coming.
You see that?
Well, yeah, but it's a true story.
How do you get around that?
Because this is what happened, or based on a true story.
And can I give another shout out here to one mortgage spectator?
I was hoping you were going to go, holy cow this guy.
Speaking of voiceover work, you see what he's mainly known for most recently.
Oh, let's see.
I got his, he's doing the new version of the mist that's coming up.
Was that his voice for someone else's?
I want to say it was him.
He does the voiceover for if you're watching this show.
He does Friday night types.
I don't, I don't know what that is.
Is that it's the show about, uh, uh, pee, we football.
Oh, so it's a reality show.
Yo, yeah, oh, yeah.
But he heard if they got that person to actually do the voice.
He did six, five episodes of a show that we still think CBS took from us in person of interest.
Uh, he, he played Frank Capone in Boardwalk Empire.
And I see my key is married to somebody of note.
Uh, I believe he's married to the girl that was in Iron Man 3 that was like Tony's love interest that kind of turned on him at the end.
Let me take a look for you.
Uh, his spouse.
I just saw it.
Oh, Rebecca Hall.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I couldn't think of her name.
They say my life did not know that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's a lot more than that, sir.
So that's my question.
The prestige.
Vicky Christina Barcelona, the town.
Apparently she likes working with Scarlett Johansson quite a bit.
Good.
Good.
I'm sorry.
It's just curious.
You know, was that that one person to voice in.
I think it was.
I really think it was.
He was taking in someone else.
I can see how you would think that because there's a lot of long shots of him.
But no, I really think that was him.
She was also in the BFG last year.
Well, she.
Yep.
She played Mary.
And the BFG's also in the gift, which I remember that from last year.
I mean, she's, she's a work.
She's got a lot of work going on.
I just.
But no, I mean, down.
That's a very valid point.
You can, you can see that either way, but I really think it was him.
And he embodies the late 70s early 80s still won really well.
Oh, yeah.
You kind of see how Chuck sees him as someone who's a fan.
But also thinks that he's a friend because of the rocky thing.
And there's a really interesting moment of clarity with that relationship later in the film,
which I found to be.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
That I found really strong.
Yeah.
Like that was a, that was a solid moment for me.
Yeah.
And it was like the turning point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was really, I mean, that was what, again,
we have Shriver demands a beast when it comes to acting.
He's a walking talking, briefly acting clinic.
And that's seen alone.
And what makes me sad is.
This film had to struggle to even get made almost reflecting the struggle of its character.
Yeah.
Because based from what I've read, they started filming it in New Jersey.
They had some problems with tax breaks.
They had to move it to New York.
At some point, they went to Bulgaria to film some of this, which is sad to me,
because this is a great project that everybody really puts all of their heart and soul into.
And I'm really kind of pulling for this film to get a wider release,
because it's getting a very limited release in selected cities.
And as David Letterman once said, I pray your city has been selected.
But this is a film that deserves as wide of an audience as possible.
I wish they had waited a little bit later in the year to release it,
because we're closer to a wall and maybe it will.
Maybe it's getting this limited release now,
so that maybe it can catch fire and word of mouth can spread.
And it can get that bigger release later in the year.
Because I think this is a really high quality film that's really well done.
Anything you guys want to add to it?
I would have liked to have seen them go a little bit deeper into the,
to some of the relationships that Chuck had with some of the people that he was constantly putting walls up in front of.
I feel like there were some relationships that he had that they just kind of glossed over story wise.
I can think of one that I agree with you on familial.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Done.
My thing is why I want to give a shout out to is to make up department.
Oh yeah.
Ron Perlman.
Hello.
And Gavin.
Yeah.
I mean, this, yeah.
For what?
This film had the struggle to get through to get it done.
They did an amazing job.
I'm curious.
What seems more bergoy?
Bulgaria filmed it.
All right.
So am I.
I'm very curious as to how that worked.
But it's in, in the end credits.
It said Bulgaria unit.
So.
All right.
All right.
Anything else where we get to the final analysis channel?
We work it.
All right.
The way we do the final analysis on this show.
We're not going to give you a thumbs up thumbs down.
We're not going to give you letter grades numbers.
You know, bells, nothing like that.
Boxing gloves.
What we're going to do is we're going to ask two questions.
Question number.
Let's see this film again at the answers.
No, then we're done here.
If the answers.
Yes.
Then our follow-up question is how far are you willing to go?
And our spectrum runs from best to worst of the best.
Full price at a theater.
Twilight, Metany, early morning.
Second run at the dollar theater.
Actually, leaving your house to get it from red box.
Streaming at a Netflix or waiting for it on cable.
Shall we start with you?
Would you see this again?
Yeah.
I believe I would.
How far are you willing to go?
This seems like a perfect Metany thing for me.
Okay.
That's fair.
Yeah.
I recommend it.
Yeah.
And how far you want to go?
Do so.
Let's say the red box.
Get out.
Red box if not dollar theater.
I'm I'm tending to lean towards Chad at a matinee.
But I would say a weekend matinee.
Yeah.
Yes.
This is when you go.
You have lunch and then you go see this.
And then you go do some stuff.
And then you have dinner.
This is a really good film.
I would see it theatrically.
But it was a rocky later on there.
Or if somebody called me like, you know,
like Don said if somebody called me and said,
Hey, man, I'm going to pick this up.
Go on me to come over.
I'll be like, yeah, let's watch this thing.
You know, this is the kind of thing I'd like to watch again.
To maybe dissect a little deeper.
Now that I know what's coming.
So I can look at some other things and kind of look at it through the eyes or someone who hasn't seen it.
Yeah.
Like take a buddy to go see this.
It is director Philly.
Followed you.
Man, I'm sure I screwed that up.
His latest film.
It is called Chuck before we end this thing.
Really?
And I didn't get him marketing.
Got to think, uh, let's set the whole crew there.
We love him.
We're such fans.
Thank you guys so much.
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