iTunes Exclusive Episode Deepwater Horizon

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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and I enjoy the little time in the ocean every once in a while. But I'm not alone for this particular episode, Jordan, me across the desk is the official fact checker of this show and a man who's horizons are unlimited. You may know him as Fondongo, but his mom and even Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford.

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Fun place. Whatever we do, one of these things, it is to review something. This is no exception.

Today, or tonight, whatever you're listening, we are reviewing for you and we do it for you, just for you. Other people not just for you. The new film from director Peter Berg, this is guy that directed movies like Loan Survivor.

He directed the 30 for 30 about, uh, wearing Grestie called Kings Ransom. He directed Hancock. He directed Friday night lights.

He directed the rundown. He directed very bad things. He directed the pilot for ballers.

It is called Deep Water Horizon. And before we start this whole thing, yes, sir. We have to think Austin.

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The end of the song came across the eye. Fortunately, I was only when it was able to see this, but we all got the invite. So we had to do it a little bit design and marker.

Exactly. So here's what you need to know. It is the trusser, we all remember April 2010 with the big BP oil spill out there in the Gulf of Mexico.

And this is kind of the story of one of the crews that was on an oil rig out there in the Gulf of Mexico when this whole thing happened. Yeah, it was on actually the deep water horizon That's was the name of that was the name of that was the name of that really. Okay.

It's good to know that came from. Yeah We're talking Mark Wahlberg. We're talking Kurt Russell.

We're talking James Duma. We're talking Golden Globe winner Gina Rodriguez. We're talking Malcolm Vitch.

We're talking Ethan Supley We're talking Kate Hudson. This is a big deal. Yeah people on this thing Let's just let's just start with and this runs PG 13.

Yeah, it's just under an hour 50 Yeah, good was time-wise. Was it right? Good and you should have been a longer should have been shorter?

I think actually a little bit longer than sugar. I'm gone real hours. Yeah.

Okay. What how so? Okay, the plot Basically I really liked what they did with the plot.

It starts off where you get to know like Mark Mark's character And I know you always do that thing about Paris Texas For those of you that don't understand my I'm a Mark Wahlberg fan. I enjoy his work But right now he and I are in a little bit of a tip because Transformers age of extinction upset me greatly. Okay because you know a grew up in Paris Texas and I got a Transformer and it's in a barn that was a little upsetting to me.

There were a lot of things about that film That was that yeah, we this was one of them. Yeah, that's the history but no It shows that this is true story actually shows these people and it starts off actually By the character the real life person at Wahlberg plays. Oh really talking about that basically being an Interviewed like a deposition kind of thing about what happened.

This is like the investigation thing Now that's only a couple minutes and it shows him what does wife and kid and You've seen a couple other people this is mostly Russell and Wahlberg in this film These two they're the big two dogs in this film It shows them which I really liked You got a little bit of their background not too much, okay? Then it shows them actually arriving in like the places in Louisiana where they Where they go to arrive check in and then be phone out these platforms and it really show the process of that which I really liked I mean they checked in what's your name? Okay, what's when you go into deep water?

Yeah, you're good to go because I prove that kind of thing and Then you arrive and it kind of shows a life on these breaks that are In the middle nowhere sometimes there's about 150 people in these breaks right and they're out there for extended periods Yeah, they could be out there weeks at a time Kind of shows the life of what's going on which I found kind of interesting. It's just kind of it This is the normal day. This is the normal crew Then it gets into the story where you got mouth of it just character Who played Vendrine who's basically works for one of the companies who Basically they're supposed to plug the well.

They're a contract They're a contract are not they're not part of the company Yeah, and one thing I showed it which in the movie show which I really liked at the beginning Mark Wahlberg said his home with his daughter and she kind of explains what the Pepsi can What they showed you yeah, they show that in the trailer that is basically the original trick It's kind of which is kind of cool. So you kind of see they get to the oil They put cement in there plug it up and they wait for the people to come in and get the oil out Right, so if you're not it's gonna shoot up like a you know Yeah, guys are like you guys are a big time Well, that company says oh, yeah, we did a good job then Russell Carr Russell's character comes in He's one of those four men great her Russell by Jimmy Harold plays the kind of guy who's like You know, I want this done right. I want to do the test I want to make sure that you guys did this right because they were running behind in real life They're about 43 days behind But something like how many millions be behind budget on this So that company kind of cut corners and then you kindly slowly see the bill where you just know what's gonna happen They did it slowly slowly slowly then when it hits it hits And everybody knows the story.

Let's right from there. Yeah, yeah 11 people passed away That's no that's that's fact that's you know no spoiler on that so you said you would have kind of rather it's Be a little bit longer because I like how to show the pretense yet the other people show the life and it really showed what happened I wish it would have showed a little bit more of the aftermath because at the end it gave updates like this was the biggest oil spill And all that and that was kind of rushed through I would like to see me a little bit more of the after effect Okay, yeah, it showed what happened after with the survivors like wallberg It got real emotional because you got these people in a hotel room and you got family members not knowing if they're sons alive Right stuff like that and that really showed that what really happened and how did you see my son? You know my you know my son my son said what happened did you find you see alive It really which really did did very very well, but the after effect was really kind of rushed at the end Okay, the explosion where the things that's on fire and when you know it all hits Incredibly well okay incredibly well it flowed well It made the main points except I thought they rushed the end a little bit right still I got to warn the empire.

It's brutal lot a lot of graphic. Yes got graphic scenes to picking the way things But you kind of have to Yes situation like and you understand when these things hit like when it the thing ruptures on the platform You're wondering why why are there cages in like this glass and everything between the drill thing and the operating room and you understand why because it It gets brutal and so you felt it was true to form. Oh, yes, they didn't you didn't feel they didn't totally No punches a Peterburg a veteran director Works on this film Do you feel like he really did it justice?

Yes, okay because it The CGI and this was incredible it really felt like you were there You know sometimes you know film CGI and you could uh CGI it out This film you knew was CGI, but it didn't seem like it was CGI. Okay, so there's very very natural look The fire's going around and all that I really enjoyed how it looked when they're portraying this at night with so much fire explosions everything It was really done well when it comes to the graphics It really really showed what happened and what these people tried to do to survive I mean some people I put my written via www.clubesplacas.com. That's our website There was a great cast great chemistry.

You know where you're gonna get with knock-a-bit You know what you're gonna get knock-a-bit Yeah, I mean knock-a-bit you're knock-a-bit. It's not what we have of course. I mean he's a legend Some of these other characters, but I mean some of these other actors.

You know you're gonna get with people like Like curdle Russell yeah, but my shining star has to go to Russell Curl Russell a very great actor one of my personal favorites. He played that part a role that you never really see that often with him Of course, you know him can snake from escape from New York, you know from these other films His Disney stuff in the 60s and so on and he's done all this stuff But this was kind of a role you don't really expect for him. It was kind of new, but he played it well He played that form and who's like he gets injured.

That's all I'm gonna say Yeah, and what he goes through to make sure that he's doing everything he can at least people could get off while Basically he can't see in one eye as long as I'm gonna say okay. I mean he he got injured But how he cared about was the real what the the well the drill The platform what we could do to try to stop this in the crew. He just cared about the crew the crew And any downside to it I'm trying to think I mean I'm not saying I'm asking the questions.

Yes once the know The The rushing at the end I thought okay, how they kind of cut it, but not bad, but if that's how digger you're going to dig You're going to dig to find something bad. That's a good thing. I mean it wasn't really We're on the soap box here.

I know we've not we don't try to believe political and all that and we're talking we're talking oil spills But this is what happened. This was a true event and it didn't really go BP you're such a horrible thing. They didn't go in the soap box on this good they kind of show just what happened because it is true that One what the contracted company cut the corners basically when it came down to it in real life Okay, and it showed that But it didn't say how dare they how brutals BP those ruthless people all that it didn't get real preachy It said here's what happened here's these people here's how they live on the work You start you get to know what life is like and all of a sudden it hits or pull no punches.

This is our best way to show What happened with these survivors and what they went through and what they were able to tell what happened? Okay, so beyond that it I just think Beyond anything rush acting was fine look was beautiful direction was great flow well Most of the film was just incredible. All right show we get to the final analysis then let's do it All right, do we do the final analysis on this show if you joined us for the first time Little bit different than you might be used to we're not gonna give you thumbs up thumbs down We're not gonna give you Letter grades numbers stars emojis nothing like that What we like to do on our shows we're gonna do a little deeper because our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the Empire wants us to I'm gonna ask Don up to two questions question number one is would he see this film again if the answer's no Then we're done here, but if the answer's yes We have a spectrum because I want to know how far he's willing to go to see it again from top to bottom Best to worst the rankings are full price of the theater matinee I'm sorry full price to the theater twilight matinee early morning second run at the dollar theater Red box Netflix cable Don would you see this film again?

Definite how far you willing to go? I was my bar was a little high okay, but I was surprised How incredible this film was I only had that one small down side all right I cannot really find anything wrong with this see the film. It's not political I'm given it to covet it the full price that the theater wow.

Yes, that good That's a big rating from Don because he doesn't give those out just willy nilly yeah, yeah, I Everybody who had talked to who saw this you look at riding tomatoes all the people that they will That's grinning with the other fellow critics They all like to too. Now let me ask you this this will by the time people can hear this they'll be able to see it It is going to be available on iMacs. Would you pay the extra for iMacs?

I don't know well, I think with the special effects in the CGI and in really showing Some of these explosion scenes and some of these were the the drill and the platforms just tearing apart I think maybe it might be worth it. That's a main. Okay.

That's a maybe. Yeah, everybody liked it. My plus one loved it So, you know, it is deep water horizon directed by Peter Berg.

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