iTunes Exclusive Episode Hotel Artemis

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Number 391 for those of you playing the home game, welcome.
My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast and I hear Artemis
and I think Arrow, I don't know why, I just do.
But I'm not alone for this, joining me in the co-host chair of this particular episode
is the newest member of the cast and a man that stayed in a few hotels in his time, especially
in the last year.
He is Alex, welcome sir.
More than I'd care to admit.
Rounding out the day, this is the official fact checker of this show and a man that's
also stayed in quite a few hotels in the last year because he's been traveling a lot for
work.
You may know him as fond, don't go, but his mama named him Don Ford, I'm gonna call him Don
Ford, welcome sir.
Usually the ones I can afford are those motels from him by the hour and it's like, is
that actually inhabitable?
I would say, if you listen to what I just said, I said you are traveling for work, so I'm
going to assume that your work doesn't put you in those kinds of hotels when they send
you places.
But what happens when you assume?
Anything with a color or a number in the name?
It's like sheets, a little quarter machine, it makes sense.
It's an indictment of his employer who goes, you play in the home game, I feel itchy hearing
it.
I actually just say to Hilton when I was in Houston for that month, so yeah, it was nice.
That's the part that got us the rooms because they were all booked up after Hurricane, I'm
surprised they had the rooms available.
They have those set aside for stuff like Joel, we're doing down there.
Oh really?
Yeah.
Whatever we do, one of these things is to review something and this is no exception.
We're going to talk about an interesting film today written and directed by Drew Pierce.
It is called Hotel Artemis.
Part of the solving?
Yes, I agree.
In fact, Melissa and our best friends, Ally did a great in marketing.
Some day he's going to get that out of there.
On the first check.
Well, so we love our vendors so much they give us the opportunity to see films before
they're released so that we can tell you guys about them and you guys can make the best
possible decisions for your entertainment dollars.
Here's what you need to know.
It's 2028 Los Angeles and water has come out of premium and because the economy is not
doing well, there is a large company in Los Angeles called Clearwater that decides they're
just going to cut off the city's water supply.
In doing so, rioting happens in the streets.
While all this rioting is going on, there is a bank robbery that happens by two brothers
played by Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry.
The robbery goes horribly wrong but they are members of what's called the Hotel Artemis
which is an abandoned hotel in downtown Los Angeles where the penthouse level is a secret
hospital for criminals.
But there are a lot of rules to it.
You have to be a member in things of that nature.
It's kind of weird to say criminals run a background check but they do.
It is run by the nurse played by Jody Foster and her assistant named Everest played by the
great Dave Batista.
Was that Everest like the mountain or Everest like a person?
Everest.
Just checking.
Because she says, you know what they call them Everest?
Well, look at him.
So you've got an all-star cast in this thing.
Also in this thing, I might even get to give you any everybody.
I understand why.
I'm going to tell you why here in a minute.
Well, you know why but the listeners do.
Yeah.
I want you to be a Boutella in this, Jenny Slate is in this Charlie Day is in this.
I'm already in.
I mean, and I went into this fairly cold.
I knew about it.
I hadn't I'd seen a couple of TV spots.
I hadn't seen a full blown trailer.
So the reason I say what I said just a moment ago is because there are a couple of people
in this.
Now, if you see the poster, then you'll know who all's in it.
But having not even done that, there were a couple of reveals that I was like, oh, okay.
I can do this right now.
So this is one of those movies you want to go in as cold as possible because it helps.
Yeah.
It runs right at an hour 30.
Our 33 is your official runtime, but you know, you take out the credits and stuff.
And we'll get to all that here in a minute.
Let me just first of all say, wow.
I had very high expectations going into this film, and I loved every minute of it.
And I didn't realize until reading some of the trivia as I was writing my written review,
which is currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
This is Jody Foster's first film in five years.
Huh?
Really?
It's her first film in five years.
So to see her in a film like this, my concern going in was, is she going to kind of mail
this in because this isn't, or is she going to have that, you know, her lecture voice?
Well, she's all got to Dr. Lector's wash.
But she's really, really good in this where she's, she has to play the person that has
to lay the rules down because there are rules and you have to abide by rules.
And it really is her story more than anything else, but there are also multiple story lines
that we've threw it.
But ultimately, it's her story.
It's kind of like the hotel Continental or Intercontinental?
The Continental in John Wick, yeah, I figured we would get to that eventually.
But to help keep an anonymity of the criminals, they don't know each other's names.
They only know each other by the suites they stay in.
So like Sterling K. Brown, his character is referred to as Waikiki because that's the,
he stays in the Waikiki suite when they go there.
So he's always in the Waikiki suite?
That's what you're led to believe.
Okay.
When they check in, whatever's available.
So tonight, you might be Uncle Poco, then the next night, you might be Waikiki, then
the next night, you might be another.
But there is a feeling that there is a routine involved too, that when they, there's something
when they scan in it.
I mean, granted Don's right, there is an availability thing for people that are first
timers, like Charlie Day's character, we were led to believe as a first timer.
But there's just, there's action in this, there's drama, there's comedy.
It's, I don't even know how to describe it.
It's kind of like the transporter of how he had his rules, you know, the field of film
in general.
Yeah, but I'm talking about also, I mean, it's like, there's one guy who wanted to
begin in that beginning, that's what the two robbers, she won't let him in.
I'll give you how much she want me to do right now.
She's like, no, no, no, no, nope, nope, nope, get out, you know, now, and that's just
the basic plot.
I want to go any deeper than that because there's a lot going on here.
There's some things that kind of throw a monkey wrench and other things and there's other
things that kind of throw a monkey wrench and the monkey wrench and it's, it's, but not
too complicated.
No, not at all.
Without the monkey wrench, there's no story.
That's true.
And that's, and that's part of, you know, every character has their own arc.
So there's, there's secrets about each character that come out as the film goes on.
And then in the last 30 minutes, all hell breaks loose.
Oh yeah.
I mean, I mean, she only made us say it.
One thing about Foster is, once she's aged in this, they make her look old.
Well, she's also, I mean, think about the fact that she also is kind of aged.
Yeah, Jodie Foster, I mean, she's compared to some other ones.
They make sure that you, they make her hair, I think, intentionally gray more than it
is.
She's in her mid fifties at this point, sir.
I know, but she looked older and I don't know what to guess to older, but they made
sure there was no makeup to hide the wrinkles and everything intentionally.
Because you needed to see how worn she was because she has her own back story that
you find out as the film goes on, that there are motivations behind what she does, too.
So there's also the aspect that she's not just a nurse, she's the battle-tested nurse.
And then some, right, okay.
And it all just, it all wraps itself in on itself.
It's just, it's a really well, and again, Pierce actually wrote the script, too.
And I just really, really enjoyed everything about this film.
One thing about Dave's character, you look at him like in the horrible bosses where he
kind of plays the idiot, you know, no pun intended like myself.
But this one, he's kind of the idiot, but he's the criminal style.
You know, this one, he's just kind of dealing with, and the horrible bosses, he's dimwitted.
And this one here, I'm playing, I'm only care about myself, so would you say it's kind
of a wild card.
Oh, yeah, but yeah, in this, what I got from this film is more of a criminal, not just
a good guy idiot, but just the evil idiot, is the best way to put it.
Because in horrible bosses, yeah, yeah, I think I'm going to go ahead and say, pump the
brakes on that one with that, that's a magic tip, no, no, the adjective was what I was
worried about.
No, but in horrible bosses, he kind of plays the buffoon kind of guy, but he still has
a good heart and all that stuff.
In this film, he's still the buffoon, opens his mouth when he shouldn't, but he plays the
jerk criminal.
There's a big difference between him being the jerk criminal and just the idiot, you
know what I'm saying?
You good?
Yeah, okay.
I'm going to get that out.
But I liked it.
I liked him in the interval.
Okay, I'll finish it up.
I'm trying to get to my point here, but what I'm trying to say to you is I saw it differently
than you did.
For me, what I saw out of Charlie Day's character was, he's a guy that, maybe I'm digging
too deep into this, but I saw him as a guy who became who he is because he thought money
would make him cool.
What he didn't realize is unlike Martin Lawrence, who once said money turns a ball-spot
into a part, it doesn't cover up personality traits.
He's still this weasily, whining little guy, no matter what, you know, you put a dress
on him.
It's still a pig.
I think there were people around me that I don't think got that there, like why are
they trying to make Charlie Day into this bad day, and I'm like, that's not what they're
doing.
He's just, he's a guy that thinks that because he has money that he can lord it over
people.
Yeah, I mean, that's the character that he's playing.
I think he played a good.
No, no, I agree.
Yeah, yeah.
I thought he did a great job.
Yeah.
So seeing just, or seeing it's an auditorium, I apologize for that, but hearing the two
different sides from both you and Don, this one seems like a movie that you would recommend
not only watching once, but multiple times to get different layers.
I would say that.
I think you could see stuff that you didn't see before.
Oh, yeah.
Easily on this.
You understand why this happened here in the beginning and the beginning, you're just
trying to follow this story and see what's going on.
But when you finish watching this, if you go back and watch it from the beginning, there's
going to be, oh, I know what they did that now.
Oh, now I caught that.
Now I caught that.
Now I understand that.
So I mean, you have to pay attention to it.
It's not too complicated.
I was actually able to follow it, which means it's not too complicated.
I didn't enjoy it.
There is some violence in there.
But it's not just, let's be brutal for the heck of it.
Yeah, it's a brutal scenes and stuff like that and it's a brutal movie, but it's not
over-glorifying the violence.
No, it's there because it's supposed to be there.
I mean, it's a very quick 90 minutes.
Oh, you know what I think?
I don't think that, you know, I don't think it was too fast.
It takes a little while to get settled, but doesn't take as long as perhaps other films
you've seen recently.
But this is a great film and I said in my written review at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
That my concern for this film is that it's going to get too limited of a releases.
It's not going to get the love it deserves from a theatrical standpoint.
Now I think a lot of its popularity will come from home video and from streaming and things
like this.
But I really think to see this in a theater is the experience to go do this because it's
a really great film.
Visually, it's very, very dark.
There is a mid-credits scene that I didn't understand.
Not sure what they were trying to convey on that, but I'll let you figure that one out
for yourself.
But overall, I mean, Don, did you have any downsides to it?
Not really.
Because this was one of those times where you and I weren't sitting together.
Yeah.
Much of a chance to talk.
No, it was a fast ride.
It didn't drag.
The acting was good.
Batista has played a great part.
Let's talk about Batista for a minute.
He is getting better and better and better and I don't say that as a lifetime wrestling
fan.
I say that as a guy that reviews films.
What I like about what Batista is doing is every time he does a film, he stretches himself
just enough so that he knows he's not stretching himself too far so that it goes over the
top.
He stays with it.
I'm going to stretch a little bit here because he shows a little bit of a little bit of
range in this so he doesn't scorpion king it.
Not really.
I mean, like he's really kind of taking his time with his career and he's kind of letting
himself be more comfortable in the roles he's taking.
Yes, he plays muscle in this, but there's showing his loyalty to the nurse and how he
backs her no matter what she wants to do, but he still doesn't have a problem questioning
her when she wants to bend the rules a little bit, when she doesn't want to bend him
for anybody else.
He does, he plays that well and he plays off of a, and I can't have me award winner very,
very well.
I'm just going to throw that out there.
So for a, almost insulting way to put it.
So he's out of the kitty pool now with his depth.
I would say he's, he's close.
Okay, I'm not, I'm not ready to let him play King Lear yet, but there are some scenes
where he's just, you laugh, but he doesn't so good.
I'm an orderly so don't, you know, I know, you know, yeah, I'm just going to, he drives
his name tag and he says, do you, it gets us a orderly on his name tag?
And he says, do you know what this means?
This means I am a health care professional.
But people is the, the big muscle too, I mean, the one that first guy who tries to come
in with the bank robbers and they'll want to let him in, but he's the good scare of it.
Yeah, let me get Everest, Everest, so it was a good establishing, yeah, there's, everybody
has their arc in this, but again, it's still the nurse's story.
But everybody else's has their stories too that revolve around it.
And I said this in my written review, I can say with a 98% of surety that Sterling K. Brown
gets all the way through this and doesn't cry.
He's known for crying on, on this is us, he cries like every episode, but there's only
one thing I kind of, what tell us character, you don't, you kind of, but you know what happens
with Batista at the end, and this is being sport, they're free, I'm sorry, who's Batilla?
Sophia, Batilla.
Oh, Batilla.
That's why, sorry, I got lost.
Batilla.
She is, she is an assassin, and that's about as close as I want to go on, we don't want
it.
She might be a real one.
Just face on the roller you went on.
And this one here, it's like, there's the big event at the end being sport, they're free.
Mm-hmm.
You know, everything comes together.
Yeah, but you don't know what happens to her after.
I don't know that I need to.
I mean, I think you can pretty much infer what happens, and maybe, oh, you know what,
that's interesting.
You look at what happened with Batista, but you may have, you may have cleared something
up for me with.
Because what Batista, and this is, I'm not going to say a thing, but you, right, so you
know, but with her, but I, I, we'll talk about that off here.
Yeah.
Anything else you want to discuss where we get to the final analysis?
I actually have two questions.
Okay.
Number one, can you see this getting into a series of things with the nurse or new criminals
coming in?
I'd be okay with that.
If they did this, like a Netflix series.
Possibly.
I mean, because you never know how they kind of, they left it open as long as I'm going
to say.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the easy way that did they leave it open.
The other one.
Now, this happened with John Wick, and you had mentioned earlier, and I think you said
you mentioned it in your review, uh, this is not it, actually, not it has, but the hotel
continental.
Yeah.
Done.
That was done.
That was mine.
No, no, no.
You're skipping ahead on something I'm not talking about.
Okay.
Okay.
What I was going to say was it, because it's in that same vein, and it has that same feel,
John Wick got a narrow release that then expanded from people enjoying it.
And you had mentioned earlier about thinking that this isn't going to get the love and
till home video.
Okay.
Could you see this being enjoyed enough that it does get that wider release now wind up
getting in?
I hope so.
Okay.
I really hope so.
Call it.
Would you say home video, or it does wind up getting a wider release?
The word of mouth expansion possibility.
Yes.
I think it's got a shot.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Anything else?
I was super bummed that I couldn't make it to the screening.
All right.
Well, let's go to the file analysis.
We do the file analysis on the show.
We're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down.
We're not going to give you the letters, numbers, grades, bullets, nothing like that.
Because again, you got to leave your weapons outside.
We're going to ask two questions.
Number one is what we see this again.
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
If the answer is yes, then the follow question is how far are we willing to go to see it?
From the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's how it rolls.
Full price to the theater down to a twilight showing down to a matinee showing down to early
morning on a weekend, down to actually leaving your house to get it from red box, down to
streaming on Netflix, down to cable, dawn.
Yes, sir.
Would you see hotel Artemis again?
Definite.
How far are you willing to go to do so?
Believe it or not, I know it's not the genre for everybody, but I'm going to give it
to coveted.
I saw nothing wrong with this.
Wow.
Yeah.
And you are not.
You are not losing that.
That dude, that dude's a tough critic.
Yeah, he is.
That's what it was surprising.
And the acting was nothing wrong.
I like the look.
It was dark.
It fit the mood even though it was at night, but still he was, it had that hazy look in
the hotel.
It wasn't bright.
It was dimmed all the way through and so it had mood lighting throughout.
Yeah.
Great mood bodies.
And I'm right there with him.
Can you see this movie in a theater in first run?
Anyway, you can.
I mean, this is a really, really fun movie.
It's not going to take up a ton of time.
It's paced well.
You're going to blink and you're going to be like, whoa, we're already, I mean, it's really
well done.
Yeah.
So don't get the large popcorn.
I mean, you could.
Yeah.
If you need faster, just eat it in the way home or whatever, you know, it is Drew Pierce's
hotel Artemis.
Oh, this whole thing?
Yes, sir.
Again, we got to listen to everybody in a lot of great marketing.
We love our vendors so much.
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