iTunes Exclusive Episode Eye In The Sky

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It also means you subscribe on iTunes because it means it is time for another eye, tunes, exclusive. Welcome. My name is Rob.

I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast and sometimes she just got to go for the obvious comedy, just being honest. But I'm not alone for this particular episode. The 197th one of these things.

Joining me across the desk is he tends to do his my co-host and a man that knows the thing or two about the military. He is Chad, welcome sir. He did not do sir.

Also join us is the official fact checker of this show and probably the most important member of this particular episode because he's going to be driving the bus. He's also a guy that knows about big sky country. He may know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and name him Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford.

Welcome sir. I feel special now. Well, perceptions are out.

Yeah. Whenever we do one of these things, it is to review something this particular episode is no exception. Right now we are reviewing the latest film from director Gavin Hood.

You would know him from directing Enders Game, a couple of episodes of Breakout Kings. Ben Origins Wolverine, that looks like about all I recognize. It is called I in the sky.

It stars, I'm in the wrong place, one moment please. Helen Merin, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, amongst others. Before we start this, we have to think Julie and everybody at Merock for the invite to all of us for this.

Some of our favorite people. Yes, they are. We're big fans.

Thank you so much guys. I'm going to give you the IMDV description, Catherine, Colonel Catherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. Now, Don, you were able to see this.

We were not. I want to start by saying, is this more, is this all about drones or is there more to it? A lot more to it.

All right, drones are a part, but it's just like one of the corner blocks in the house. Because we, about a year ago, we saw another film about drones. Yes, called Good Kill.

Exactly. How does this compare to that? Night and day between the two.

How's up? This movie, and I'll try to give the plot without being too spoiler free, which we pride ourselves. No, with being too spoiler free, yeah, yeah, yes, we can.

So there might be a minor spoiler, but I have to say this to get the plan out. Fair enough. What happens is, Mirren and works for the government along with Rickman, the great elk, Rickman from diehard, the late great actor that he was.

Yes, yes, they're kind of like military operatives, and they're on a capture mission of some British citizens who are congregating in Kenya, so they want to capture them. But when things change, for a possible terrorist time, yes, they're in the terrorist list. They're like the top.

They're the top five are there. They wanted to capture them due to circumstances changing. They can't capture them.

Fair enough. So they want to do a drone strike. Okay, so it changes from a capture to a drone strike mission, and the issues deal with should we do this or not?

And that's all I want to go into on the plot. Chad, do you see the wealth is in this? No, no.

Barcad. I'll try this again. Barcad, Abdi, does that mean anything to you?

I got nothing. Five words for you. I'm decoupted now.

Tom Hanks. Captain Phillips. I never saw that at all.

But you know that line. Oh, okay. That's the big line from the trailer.

I'm decoupted now. Yeah, he's only been in a couple of things. This is his second film.

Yeah. So after he got nominated for an Oscar from Cap for a Captain Phillips. Yes, he did.

Basically, the film is based around the political implications of if they do the kill missile or not. Okay. And it's a bunch of red tape and contacting just about anybody under the sky that you can imagine on trying to get permission to do this or not in them questioning whether they should do it or not.

Is it worth killing possible innocent citizens for getting these targets? Who, if they don't do it, could go out and kill more people. So it's a lot of red tape they talked about, every secretary of state, everybody under the sun you can imagine, okay.

But that's the plot, which I don't want to give anything else out on. But it's just so many times you're like, oh gosh, oh gosh, no, no, they have to contact this guy now. So it's one of those government red tapes that we're at and so worst because they're going to try to kill the British citizens as the deal by Britain government, which could be, you know.

So that's a scoop. Runs an hour 42, pace good, it is radar, yes for a reason, a lot of violence, a lot of profanity. I went to the profanity a little bit, I didn't really notice it, but at that way, like some other films that we just recently reviewed, which will be one of which will drop the same day.

This does exactly. There are some military scenes to put it, put it that way. A little bit of violence, yes, but when it hits, it's real, which I put in my written video at www.theclaphousepodcast.com, that's our website, you know.

I put on there that it's realistic, brutality, military action, okay, okay, when the action hits, it's kind of like that private Ryan kind of, this is the real life, this is not qualified bang bang, shoot him up, this shows the realistic brutality of war. So you said it was pace really well, yes or was, okay, it was an hour 45, but it didn't, you knew it was, but it didn't seem like it, because I thought it was really well, you were really interested into it, a couple of edge of the seat moments. How was, I mean, was the script itself solid enough for you?

Yes, I was, I was better than that other one we saw with Ethan Hawker, we could tell. Yeah, a lot better than this, I'd recommend this a lot better, more than the other one. Acting with Miran and Rickman, you know what you're going to get.

It's how in Miran, yeah, in Rickman. She kills people, dude. Yeah, I mean, so she, um, backing on them, you don't have to say anything.

You got, you know what you're going to get with them, but the guy from Captain Philips, so incredible, he gets my non-starring leading role shadow. So this, it's not just kind of a one trick deal with him. He, does he show any range or is it just, he just plays the role well?

He plays the role well, because basically he's an undercover spy on the ground in Kenya. Okay, and sometimes stuff can happen where he has to get out and run, put it that way. All right, and how he's able to improvise and everything, I thought the writing on his character was very well, but he made the character himself.

You also have Aaron Paul in this, I'm breaking bad fame. Yes. And one thing I liked about it, and there's one minor thing which I kind of have to make it issue on.

Okay. Is I like how it's multi-world, this, this one's in real time, because the drones are ran in Las Vegas, Nevada, out of the military compound there. They're dealing with people in the military compound in Africa, plus what's going on in Kenya at the location, plus Rickman in Britain, talking with the Prime Minister.

So there's four different locations basically that this is taking place of, and it goes back and forth between those four locations. So on that, I really did like how they had the different locations. Showed the locations in the look of the film very well, but my issue was, is in all of them, I know Kenya were that's it, and I know where the U.S.

is at. It all showed names, day shots, and it was kind of the same time no matter where they're at. But when you're in Vegas and you're Kenya, it's different times of the day.

They're so far apart, where one could be dark at night, and in Vegas, it's at dusk. That would be my only real thing I noticed which may have been wrong, but that's just being minor on it. Well, yeah, I mean, if you're looking at deep for something, that's a good sign.

I was at shot for him, and he said, it's not really what I was shooting. I'm reading on the trivia for IMDV that due to budgetary restrictions, it was a six week shoot. Sometimes the actors would work individually, said, for example, when Helen Marin is in the decision room, she was actually speaking in real time to the director and facing a green screen with a red X-designating her line of focus.

Did you ever feel, no, I didn't really look at where she was at in that decision room. I would have to forget to use the green screen. It was that good.

I never thought that. I thought they just, like, you know, 24, they have the stage sets and everything like that. That's what thought it was.

Yeah. But the look of Kenya and show in those neighborhoods was very well. Show Vegas a desert, not too hard to do that though, but showed Britain very well.

So the look was very well, but the one thing that really impressed me was how they shot and showed the military action scenes and the brutality. That's where I really have to give the kudos. I'm intrigued.

I mean, because I was, I was interested in that in good kill, just for the, from the storytelling aspect. Which is not a bad film. Yeah.

But given the pedigree of who's involved in this one, I'm definitely interested in seeing this. And Gavin Hood, we forgive him for X-Men Origins Wolverine. Yeah.

Everybody gets, everybody gets the rich talk. Everybody gets the rich talk. Yeah.

He just got his pretty early. Yeah. And I haven't seen Ender's Game.

So I know my wife quite enjoyed that. I've heard good things. Yeah.

That was a brutality, but it's more of a political dealing with retake and a political thriller. Yeah. And sometimes you will get so frustrated going, oh, to like one person, just shut up.

No, no, no, no, don't even say that, you know. So it can get emotional because it is dealing with real life situations and drug drones. So it could affect people more, hopefully, depending how they feel about those issues.

Anything else you want to add before we get to the final analysis? Overall, I really liked it. I just liked how it showed the realistic military scenes.

Okay. Wasn't too much, but what they had was, wow, I thought, real life. The way we do final analysis on this show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down.

We're not going to give you letter grades, numbers, anything like that, stars, not how we roll. Our audience, whom we affectionately refer to as the Empire, they want us to go a little bit deeper. So we're going to do that.

I'm going to ask Dawn up to two questions. Question number one is, would he see this film again? The answer is no.

Then we're done here. But if the answer is yes, then I want to know how far he's willing to go to see it. Would he pay full price at the theater?

Would he go to a twilight show? Maybe a matinee, early morning on a weekend. Would he wait till it's second run at the dollar theater?

Would he rent it from red box? Would he stream it from Netflix? Or would he wait for it on cable?

Dawn, would you see this film again? Oh, yeah. How far are you willing to go to do so?

I would say and recommend as a twilight. Like, even if you want the guys hide out, or if you're here. Right there on the border.

Yeah, so don't take the kids unless there may be older teens, and maybe older teens could handle it. But you want to do that guys hide out, or you want like people like this political thrillers. It's a good movie to go to, then go to dinner after and discuss your welcome internet.

You see, can destroy it. But before we end this thing up again, we have to thank Julie, everybody at Marock for inviting us. We're such fans of those guys.

You do go get to us. They invited all of us only. I can make it but still, thanks for the invite for all three of us.

It is I and the sky directed by Gavin Hood. By the time you read this, it will be available to you. Or here at.

Maybe it's the theater of the mind, and you see it in your mind. You're losing your mind. I cannot do so that which I never had to begin with.

Very good point. Alright. And I will defend that.

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