iTunes Exclusive Episode Locke

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My name is Rob and it's great to be back again with you.
It's time for us to review another movie.
Because that's what we do on these tunes exclusives.
And joining me to do so is a man who has been very, very reliable.
Oklahoma City can call Kevin Durant Mr. Unreliable.
But you can not call this man that.
He is the official fact checker of this show.
You may know him as fun, Don Go.
But his mama named him Don Ford.
I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Welcome back to the studio.
Well, thanks for having me.
How are you doing sir?
I am well.
It is a beautiful weekend here over at the clubhouse studios.
Beautiful.
Just nice little breeze.
Not too strong in sunny.
That doesn't mean we're not going to take some time off to do.
And I didn't exclusive.
Because we're here for the impact.
Right.
But then we're going to get right back to it.
It's a beautiful day to be inside.
Today we're going to review a movie called Locke.
Which we were able to see courtesy of our friends at Allied integrated marketing.
We love those guys.
All of that.
We love a bunch of them.
We're over there.
There's a discussion.
All of them over there.
Good to see them.
I want to thank them for giving us the opportunity.
Also got the opportunity.
After the film, you did.
To go to a Q&A with the director.
Steven Knight.
It was a little late for me.
It was a little past my mind.
He directed Eastern promises.
Dirty, pretty things.
He's the writer of seventh son.
He did some writing for a show called Peaky Blinders.
Is that it?
I said that right.
Yeah.
This is only the second folding feature that he directed.
That's it.
Yeah.
So he's going to knew it.
This game of directing.
But not writing.
This guy's still not con in the business.
Basically, this is the story of Ivan Locke played by Tom Hardy.
Who leaves work for the day.
That's what viewers of Noah's Baying from.
Yeah.
Oh, we're going to get to that here in a minute.
Well, yeah.
And he decides he's going to go for a drive.
And begins taking a series of phone calls.
Over the course of the next 85 minutes, things will change for him forever.
Now, I don't think it's in real time.
But it's pretty dog on close.
Yeah.
That's pretty close.
Yeah.
I don't want to give away too much.
I know we said that a lot lately on this show.
But this is just another one of those movies that I don't want to go too deep into the plot.
Because I want people to see it for what it is.
Because when you see the trailer for this, you have no idea what you're about to see.
And I saw the trailer too.
I thought it was going to be a bad.
I thought it was like one of those.
Like that really bad movie with Selena Gomez.
That's your get away.
I thought it would be one of those or you have to do it.
We're going to do it.
No.
And really, I mean, I'm I'm very impressed with IMDB for not giving a lot of way either.
And they're in their synopsis.
Very interesting way this thing goes about.
Well, but first of all, as we like to do,
I like to dissect the films a little bit for you.
Well, I want to talk about first about the look of the film.
They didn't have to spend a lot on sets for this.
No, they did.
Because the entire film is Tom Hardy and a car.
The movie is him.
You see him at a construction site.
He gets in the car and starts driving.
And that's the rest of the movie is him driving and talking on the phone.
And can I say shout out to BMW for probably one of the nicest bluetooth interfaces I've ever seen in a car.
The budget was set for 2 million and they filmed it for under 2 million.
Really.
That's what the, you know, the Mr. Knight said at the Q&A.
And the entire thing takes place at night.
So this is the quick story.
I'll give it from the Q&A.
Please depart these services.
Please do.
They did 16 takes of this.
And basically they had three cameras set up in the car.
And they filmed it at night like, you know, 12 to like 2 in the morning.
It was on the M6 in England.
And basically what they did is they took the car, took the the wheels and the axles off.
And it basically made like it and put on a flatbed.
So it's at street level still.
They strapped it to the flatbed and they drove that car with him in the car on the flatbed.
And so it looks like he's driving.
And it's three cameras doing the storyline.
And filming the movie as it goes.
There are all live.
There's no cuts.
No nothing like that.
It's just him in the movie.
But there's colors from 12 other people.
You or 12 other people during this movie.
Those people were in a conference room at the time at a hotel.
And the script is actually on the GPS monitor that.
Oh, was it really?
Yeah, yeah.
And just let's have to do some sort of shots.
But basically they did the moving 16 times over 16 different nights.
Oh, wow.
Same script summary thing.
And then with, you know, three cameras each time.
That's 48 filmings that they have where they mix to the net.
Oh, so they did the entire movie every night.
Every single half weeks.
Yeah.
Well, well, the couple nights of can do it.
But there's like one scene we saw where you see the police driving on the side of the car and just keeps going.
Uh-huh.
That was not set.
That was just it happened.
Wow.
You know, the construction site you see while he's driving.
There was a camera on the front.
The front truck that was driving the.
Right.
So they could get the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The all that was just per chance on that.
So it's very interesting how they filmed it.
But basically 16 times they did the flick.
And they just edited it and made the best version possible.
I like the look of it because I like it.
Yeah.
You mentioned the the cop car coming by.
It was like every time you saw styroint.
You're like, oh, is he going to get pulled over?
It's something going to happen.
Yes.
Is he going to get a recognized talking on phone?
It's.
The look is real life because that's what it was.
It was just real life.
And you know, I found that to be very amazing on that part there.
And I.
I.
I want to say this.
It could be anybody.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was it.
And I really want to get to that because you're.
I think you're talking about the performance.
But the situation could be anybody.
Yeah.
So why people can relate to this.
But go ahead with your next slide.
Let's talk next about night in his direction.
I thought that a lot of people are going to see this as a very simple film.
And I don't think that people understand it.
It's technically.
It's a lot more complex than you realize because the editing process for this must have been a nightmare.
Especially if they filmed it 16 times.
You want to get the best possible performance in the best possible angle on every one of them with three cameras.
That's 48 exactly 48.
And plus, you know, you're talking about an hour and a half long.
So you're going to have to have all of the banks up at one time.
I thought night's direction was brilliant.
There were certain there was a certain subplot to the film that I don't want to give away.
No.
No.
Of another character.
But the way he shoots that is is very, very, very brilliant in my opinion.
I told Steve and I this after the two and a when I saw him in the lobby real quick.
We're both head down stairs at the same time.
Um, I told him this is a very simple film that's very complex.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That's my exact right.
It's a very simple film that's very complex.
You're exactly right.
And to make it look as simple as it does had to have been a nightmare to do because you know that this wasn't that simple to do.
And then that brings us into the performances.
Well, you only have one performance to talk about.
And that's Tom Hardy because he's the only person you see.
You could literally call this film Tom Hardy drives a car for an hour and a half and talks on the phone.
Tom Hardy and I said this at the screening and I believe this more and more every time I see him.
He could be one of the most versatile actors of our time.
In his character, it's.
There are some very strong will.
Good park characters in some parts.
He's a very ecotistical jerk at the same time.
And this guy just has a lot on his shoulders.
And he's doing something huge.
Or he's giving up something huge for something that he feels he has to do regardless.
I mean, you could run the you could run is he's going to be in the new splinter cell movie next year.
He's playing Mad Max.
Okay.
In the Mad Max reboot.
Bane in the dark night rises.
He was a bootlegger and lawless.
He was in this means war, which is one of the films I've said many times.
I should not love as much as I do.
Warrior, which was my favorite film of 2011.
Tinker Taylor soldier spy inception.
He did a remake of weathering heights.
Bronson, which was really the movie that really put him on the map.
If you haven't seen that.
Rock and roll a sucker punch.
I mean, this guy has done so many different kinds of roles.
That he was in Marie Antoinette of that really bad thing with Kristen.
Yeah.
But Kristen got him to make or it's just him sitting in the car acting like he's driving
and talking.
But he can make it look like he is driving in one thing I really like to say is it's so cool
when he's driving.
You see him.
He's pulp right next to the car.
None of that's planned.
But he can make it look like he is driving him to switch lanes.
And basically he's he's so many different angles.
He has some strong morals having some parts and other parts.
He this guy's a dirt bag.
I don't know that this is an Oscar worthy performance.
But it is an amazing performance.
Oh yes.
I think this is a film that may kind of get overlooked by a lot of people because of what it is.
But I think it's it's a brilliant performance.
This guy.
Think about Tom Hardy.
And I can say this all the movies I've seen because he was in a layer cake with Daniel Craig.
And if you haven't seen layer cake, do yourself a solid.
That is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful movie.
He never disappoints.
Oh no.
Ever.
And anytime I've seen him, he never disappoints.
And in this film, there's some great other actors.
Even though you never see them, you hear them.
And one is the character name is Donald.
Not Donald with the D, but just Andrew Scott.
Andrew Scott is that.
He is character.
You can know that character too.
He's a private Ryan.
Oh yeah.
Let's see what else we got here.
He's he's done a few things there.
He was in the TV for many series version of the town.
What makes us movie great is you never see him.
But you get to know his character from just talk he's he's more reality on to the Sherlock series.
Oh yeah, yeah.
But he you never see the guy or any other other actors in there.
Be it you get to know some of these people and their characters from just hearing them talk on
Speaker phone, which is a I think a very brilliant part of this film.
Ben Daniel's place is a boss.
You would know him from Jack the Giant Slayer.
Oh yeah.
And I love the name of the gave him too.
Yeah, you would see the movie to get that.
Just but here here's my thing.
This is not a movie that I think mass audiences will embrace.
You really have to be a student of film and not in that art for art sake kind of way because I'm not an art for art sake kind of it's not a real
art movie.
But it's it's not this bad guys are coming to get me.
And they're chasing me down the highway kind of a movie.
Yeah, high school crowd will not like this.
Just the math audience in general.
I don't think I think people see it.
They'll think it drags.
Which it really does.
I didn't think of drug at all.
I think this is people who are in the movies.
You will get entrenched in this Josh Stevenson that before the movie.
Turn off your cell phones because you won't get entrenched in this.
He said this is an immersive immersive.
I'm sorry, immersive.
Which is true.
Which is absolutely true.
Great conversation film after the thing.
This is a good one where you can get a bunch of people who like to talk movies.
See something and get the different perspectives after the film.
Kind of like the counselor or something like that.
But better.
Oh yeah.
Of course.
I don't know if I'm going to put this as my favorite film of the year.
I think it'll make a lot of people.
It'll make a lot of people's list at the end of the year.
Maybe top 25.
Yeah.
Right now for this year so far, but I'm kind of early.
It's probably my top 10 of the year so far.
It sounds great as a railway man.
But it's very, very, very good still.
I wasn't.
I can find too many faults with this movie.
Like I said, if there's a down side to it,
it's that it won't be embraced by a mass audience.
It definitely has an audience.
And that audience are people who really enjoy film in general.
Or that really enjoy the technical aspects of film and can really understand what nights
trying to do here and really be able to appreciate a performance by Tom Hardy.
That it's hard to act against nothing.
Oh yeah.
You know, if you go back to Houston at this show when we did the solo adventure,
when I did an hour 45 by myself, that is not easy to do when there's no one else to bounce off of.
Kind of like I am legend with a little Smith cast away with Tom Haynes.
Well, you think about there's only there's only one character.
But even when we've done episodes at actual exclusives, where you saw a movie,
or I saw a movie, but both of us didn't.
But we don't even do those by ourselves.
We have the other person work as an interviewer because it's very difficult to act or perform or talk
when there's nobody else there.
And Hardy nails it.
I can show you truly done him and Donald.
I mean, those changes got.
Yeah, I'm just guy.
I mean, character.
I love this character.
Even I never, you never see him.
They're great great chemistry between them, even though it's over the phone.
Yeah.
I don't know that there was anybody that it's kind of like Hardy's performance lifts everybody else
to the next level.
Oh, totally. I'll give them 100%.
You know, there were some characters that I was kind of like,
we're going to do it.
We need to hear from this person.
Which I thought was great.
It's a very simple complex movie.
Very cheaply made, but shows how something simple could be very,
very good.
You don't need a big $100 million budget.
I mean, they filmed this under budget.
And her budget was $2 million.
So final analysis.
When we review a film,
we don't give you a number.
We don't give you a thumbs up thumbs down.
We don't give stars.
We don't give letter grades.
You're better than that.
And you deserve more than that.
So we're going to give you the honest opinion.
The way it should be done.
It's a two-pronged question.
Question one is, would you see this film again?
And if you answer that, there's no then we're done here.
But if the answer to that is yes, then it becomes the second question,
which is if you would see it again,
how would you see it?
Would you pay full price?
Would you pay it a twilight?
Which is right before six?
Would you play at a matinee?
Would you go first thing in the morning?
Would you wait for it in second run?
Which I don't know if this film would see second run?
Would probably go straight to video on demand or blue right in DVD?
Or would you wait for it on cable?
Or would you wait for it on baron cast television?
Don't I will defer to you?
Question one, would you see this film again?
Oh yeah, definitely.
All right.
So we're good there.
So we go to question two.
You would see this film again.
How would you see this film again?
I would probably say HBO,
but I will recommend it as a twilight to the Empire.
Okay.
I'd like to give a three-prong.
They deserve it.
That's how you roll, sir.
Nobody's going to tell you what to do.
You're going to do what you do to do it.
I would see this film again.
I would recommend it at an afternoon show.
I don't know if this is a film you could see in a larger group.
Maybe take one or two of your buddies that are really into film.
And really kind of watch this.
And it's kind of see it for what it is.
It's an amazing performance.
I could see what four or five people, six, seven if they're all movie people.
I have a great conversation piece.
But I'll let you come back to your ear.
I think in an afternoon, you know, go grab some lunch.
Go see this and go on about the rest of your day.
But definitely go see this film.
It's an excellent film to see.
We both enjoyed it.
Thank you again to our friends at Allied Integrated Marketing.
We love them.
Who do a lot more for this than they ever have to.
And we greatly appreciate them.
Any other thoughts, sir, before we get the plugs?
No, let's enjoy the weekend.
All right.
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