iTunes Exclusive Episode I Saw The Light

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My name is Rob by the Executive Producer of the Clubhouse podcast.
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This is iTunes exclusive number 201.
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Joining me across the desk in the co-host chair this evening is a man that I can yodel what
the best of them, but he just chooses not to.
You may know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and I name him Don Ford.
I'm gonna call him Don Ford.
Welcome sir.
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Or you chose to do so just now. Yes, I did.
Be a rebel. Whatever we do one of these it is to review something and this is no exception.
We are here today to review the second directed film from Mark Abraham.
The only one that he's ever directed.
If you remember a movie back in 2008 called Flash of genius with great canyers, the true story of the guy that invented the
entertainment, uh, windshield wiper. Oh yeah, I remember that.
Yeah, he's got a lot of producer credits. This is only the second film he's directed.
But it is called I saw the lights and he brought it too.
Part, part, brought it too.
Okay, but we start this thing though. We got to think Josh and our best friends are by that ally.
Yeah, I didn't agree to marketing all these things out there of us.
Of course, Chad was able to join us, but because he has a lot going on.
But he invited all three of us back. Yeah, he will be back very, very soon.
This one's a little over two hours.
And we'll get to that in a minute.
Yeah, this is the story of Hank William's senior.
Not the junior from a, you know, Saturday night.
Although if you do see him as a child, but are you ready for some football?
It starts as he marries his wife Audrey and goes all the way up until his untimely death.
Tom Hiddleston, who you might know is Loki from the Avengers films, plays Hank Williams.
A lot of advanced buzz when the trailers came out because he does very, very strong resemblance to the character he's playing.
And Elizabeth Olson, who you might know is the Scarlet Witch and Avengers Age of Ultron.
She plays his wife Audrey.
Also in this, the great Bradley Whitford from the West Wing.
Cherry Jones from 24 as well. Josh Pace.
I hope I said that name right in my pace.
He's a guy that you've seen a lot of different things.
There's a lot of people in this movie that you see and you go,
Oh, that's a guy from that day.
Yeah, that guy, that lady, that guy, that guy, that guy, yeah.
There's Olson.
She's one of the Olson twins.
She is the oldest.
Oh, they're the twins or two, don't.
That's Mary Kate Mashley.
Okay.
She is their older sister.
Okay, never mind.
Okay, but being that family.
Yes, she isn't.
She is definitely a part of that family.
Okay.
They also have a brother.
Okay.
I did not know that.
So let's get into it.
All right.
This thing is two hours and three minutes.
And boy is it two hours and three minutes.
Okay.
This moves slowly.
I found that there was a whole lot of this that could have been trimmed.
Yeah.
And part of it for me was there were certain scenes where it was like Abraham made a conscious
choice to tell his actors, take a couple three seconds between line.
Because there was a lot of empty space in some of these scenes from a dialogue standpoint
that made me go where is the chase and how can I cut to it?
Yeah, they talk like the people at the DMV in Stutopia.
No, no, no, no.
But although that's funny.
But.
This wasn't.
Yeah, this wasn't.
It's just, I don't know.
It was like, I get that he wanted to tell the story.
But I feel like he could have told the story about 20 minutes quicker.
Yeah, they could have cut about maybe 20, 30 minutes out of this.
I honestly think that.
I feel the same way like you.
And there's probably we saw this film with a lot of people.
We know like the people from the movie brothers and you know,
I've got to say they were both there and a lot of our friends in the,
in the press for as well that we know over the,
in front of the show like Gary Murray so forth.
They probably talking to some people after the fact they thought the same thing
that this did kind of drag.
This is only covers about what two, two and a half, three years of his life
if that.
Roughly maybe a couple years at most, right?
Actually it's a little bit longer that, but his career actually lasted only a couple
of years.
Yeah.
And it took us before he really got rolling.
Yeah.
But still it only covers about maybe four years at the most and it was two hours
covering four years with a lot of stuff that it almost felt like it was in real time.
Yes.
Exactly.
That was my point.
It's like, you know, thanksgiving.
1952.
Christmas.
1952.
New Year's Day.
1952.
President's Day.
1953.
You know, it just kept on going.
And here's my be big beef, which I put in my written review at www.clobaspodcast.com.
That is our website.
Not enough music for this being hate Williams.
There really wasn't much music scenes of him performing.
And let's be clear, something.
Kittleston does perform his own music.
That is not lip sync to hate.
God give them two minutes.
He gave him two minutes.
He gave him two minutes.
He gave him two minutes.
He gave him two minutes.
He gave him two minutes.
He gave him two minutes.
He gave him two minutes.
But there wasn't much of him singing.
You know, you probably has him performing live or studio.
Whatever.
Probably added up maybe ten minutes.
And there was also a strange choice for me here.
Some of the cinematography got weird for me.
What do you mean by that?
Like, he's performing on stage of the Grand Old Operator.
Okay.
Okay.
It's in the 1940s.
And we're doing like the sweeping jib shots and 360 shots.
And it kind of took me out of it.
Like shoot it in a style that that would have been shot in it.
At the time of time.
You know what I mean?
There were too many complicated shots in this film that really kind of took me out of the moment.
Like, yes.
There's Orson Wells was alive at the time.
And now that's just a cane.
But still the normal movies to expect.
It's this stuff you see from he, huh?
There's stuff in the movies back there.
The Western's back there.
None of this panoramic CGI or whatever.
It's not great with you.
100%.
That was a little weird for me.
It didn't wait to put me out too much.
But I see the point where they're trying to add the new age to.
Now, the look of the film and being historically correct was very well.
Oh yeah.
I thought they'd be very good on that point.
From a performance standpoint, I thought, I was worried going into this because all
I could see on the trailer was Loki with a guitar.
You know, I couldn't get past the Loki thing.
And I'm happy to say that this succeeded my expectations there.
There were moments where he really did disappear into the role for me.
And he did it very, very well.
I thought the chemistry between him and Elizabeth Olson was very, very good.
Yeah.
Where, you know, there were certain points where I was kind of like,
I wanted her just to go.
You know, like, yeah.
The way she portrayed the, it made you not like either one of these folks.
But if you had to pick one, you were going to pick him because she was,
there were certain things that she wanted to do that people were like,
no, you can't really do this.
And she's like, no, I can't.
And she played that very, very well.
There was some real genius on, I think, the very first scene.
The wedding scene is not going to be the very first scene.
Oh, you talked about where the introduction, where he's on the stage and saying,
I saw the light.
And he just sings.
And it's like, yeah, I don't know the black.
And that's what I think that really helped you on a thing of taking Loki out.
You know, I'm saying.
That's a good point.
It's a fair point.
I think that's very well.
I think that very first scene was very incredible.
That was, I thought this was a good way to start the film.
Next for that, the music was very few and far between.
What was crazy for me was Cherry Jones, who we all, let's just say,
I'm a huge fan.
Okay.
She was a president.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
She has about 10 minutes of screen time and almost steals this film.
You think?
I thought she was absolutely amazed.
Oh, yeah, you know what you're with her.
I mean, she's a, you know, a man in prison 24.
And of course, you know what you can get with her.
But, you know, she was good, what she was there.
Did she disappoint?
No, but she wasn't really in that much.
I mean, there was a big couple scenes with the riffs between her and the daughter.
But she would have plays it.
So she plays it with an understatedness yet authoritative at the same time,
which I really, really dug the way she portrayed the character.
You knew she was a mother and you knew she cared about her son.
But she also wanted to make sure that check was coming in.
Oh, yeah.
You know, she just, she was so good in this.
Yeah, get out.
Show to do it.
I know it's 430 in the morning, but we're getting up and I'm driving.
Yeah, get that bad.
You know, that kind of thing.
Yeah, I could see the point.
I actually did give it.
I mean, was it extreme stand out Oscar?
No, were they for her?
No.
But yeah, but you're not, you know, we're going to get with her.
But she, oh, my, I guess she almost steals the film in very, very limited screen time.
Who did the best performance to be able to get a shout out to?
I would say, Olson.
Really?
Yeah, if you can't, you can't give me cherry Jones.
Give me Olson.
I thought Hillston was good.
But, and maybe it was the pacing.
Oh, yeah.
That affected my level of his performance.
But I kind of, there was a lot of times where I kind of felt like, man, do we really need to do this here?
And this could be trimmed out and I'd be fine.
The thing idea like you didn't sugarcoat him.
You know, yeah, it was real.
You know, he wasn't a pure saint.
And I respect Hillsie for committing to the bit.
And he really sold it.
Yeah.
This is just one of those Oscar bait.
Oscar bait films that I don't think is going to have the desired result.
That the people that that finance this and back this are wanted to have.
If they release this, you know, four or five months ago, maybe they may think about it for Oscar bait.
But it's too early.
It's way too early.
Yeah, they do that.
This thing is going to be dead and buried by the time the Oscar knobs come around back.
And, you know, December, you know, January next year.
Any extra in shout outs for you?
I thought, like you said, also, I agree with her.
She did the best role.
I think.
Jones, like I said, you know where you're going to get.
Where's the band?
Come with.
You know, everybody did fine.
I really had no beef with the acting.
Okay.
Now the plot storyline.
That's a different story.
Right.
Big time.
Anything else?
Sorry to the final analysis.
No, let's go port.
The way we do the final analysis, I'm going to show.
We're not going to give you thumbs up thumbs down.
We're not going to give you letter grade stars.
Numbers, whatever.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire.
They want us to go deeper.
So we're going to do that.
We're going to go two questions.
Question number one, is would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
If the answer is yes, then I want to know how far we will be willing to go to see it.
But we pay full price in first run.
Twilight, Matt and A, early morning on a weekend.
Second run at the dollar theater.
Red box, Netflix, television.
Dawn.
Would you see this again?
Yeah.
How far you want to go?
Acting was great, but too long.
So I'm going to say either the dollar theater or Matt and A in between the two.
I might watch this again.
But if I did, I would probably wait for it in the comfort of my own home.
So if I needed to get up and stretch.
Yeah.
This was a rare occasion.
Like I don't leave a theater unless I have to.
Like this was, this film was one of those.
I just need to get some fresh air real quick.
So it's going to refresh myself.
And so that's, that's a barometer there in this well.
What was your, your watch cage?
What was that?
That's 30 minutes.
So it wasn't bad.
Yeah.
But it was long.
It was long.
It started off great, but just, but it was one of those moments.
Where I knew before I looked at my watch, how far we were in.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
But before we end this thing though.
Again, we have to think Josh and our best friends.
Everybody did out loud.
Thank you for inviting us.
Thank you so much.
All I did a great marketing for everything you do for us.
We love you guys.
The movie is.
I saw the light.
By the time you hear it, you will be able to take it in for yourself.
Directed by Mark Abraham.
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