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animals.
We all love animals.
We love having pets.
You may know him as fondongo, but his mom and name him Don Ford, I'm going to call
him Don Ford.
Welcome sir.
I had a dog growing up there, Montana, but that's like, you know, it's got a couple of
of them, if I.
We actually am in the misty, but that's like, yeah, I'm actually like part of the deal
of living in Montana.
You have to have a dog, you know, so I'm going to guard the ranch exactly.
Yeah.
Whatever we do one of these, it is to review something.
This particular episode is no exception.
A brand new film is hit theaters, starring the Kate Marra, directed by Blackfish, the
documentary director, Gabriella, Copperthwaite, it is called Megan Levy, for we start
this whole thing.
Yes sir.
Everybody at Slyfox, see me, see me, see me, see me, see me, see me, we are such
huge fans of those guys.
We love everybody at Slyfox, big fans.
We love him.
We all thank them for letting us see this so we can talk to you guys about it.
Here's what you need to know.
This is based on a true story.
Oddly enough of a character named Megan Levy, real person.
She's actually does have a cameo in the film.
Really?
In the boot camp scene, she's one of the female drill instructors.
Oh, really?
Did not know that.
Look at that up.
She is a young lady living in New York, doesn't have a lot of direction in her life after
her best friend passes away.
So she decides to become a Marine.
And in doing so, still not sure where she wants to go, she just wants to serve her country
and through a series of unfortunate incidents, winds up working in the K9 unit with
the bomb sniffing dogs.
And winds up with a dog who, little, little onry, they wrecks.
If a toothless was a dog, yeah, I mean, he could be.
I don't think I don't even think hunters is an onry as him, but close.
He's running.
But she ends up bonding with the dog, they get to play overseas.
And through another series of unfortunate events, they're both injured, shift back to
the states.
She ends up leaving the core, honorably, but they keep him behind and she wants to adopt
him.
So that really the second half of the film is her trying to adopt this dog so they can retire
and she can, because this is her only friend, really.
And there's some other stuff going on with the only friend she has friends.
But it's the best friend.
It's the best friend.
It's the best friend.
It's the real definition.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
This runs was right around an hour, 56.
So right at two hours, ish.
Other people in this film, Tom Felton, who you would know from the flash, Bradley
Whitford, Common, Edie Falco, Will Patton, a lot of great actors in this.
This is a great film.
Yeah.
This is one of those films, and I kind of talked about this a little bit in my written
review, currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com, which is our website.
That this is one of those films that I wish would get a much bigger release and get a
lot more promotion around it than it's getting.
I respect the fact that it's getting a theatrical release, because normally I film like
this, you would see going straight to on demand or straight to DVD.
So I like that this film is getting a theatrical release, because I think people need to
get out and see it.
If you have any love for animals that all this film will hit you where you live, it's
that simple.
It's beautifully shot, it's beautifully acted.
Kate Mara does an amazing job in this, selling the emotion and selling everything that
Megan goes through it.
I kind of felt like I was there going through it with her, like that's how powerful this
performance is.
And being someone, you know, you mentioned it.
There are two fur balls.
If you listen to this show long enough, you're going to hear one of them coming through
here in the studio.
Yeah.
Then I love my boys very, very much.
And to see someone who gets separated from their animal companion, you know, I don't
know what I would do.
Especially, well, especially when you don't, especially the bond you have.
But imagine that we're, that's what I'm saying, that much more for her.
Yeah, because they were a team in a deadly situation.
Yeah, absolutely.
Their lives depended on each other, literally, because she's, there's a bomb sniffing
dog.
You know, in it, deployed in Iraq, there you go.
I just, I love this film.
Now, if you go to my written view at www.theclapassballcast.com, I'm on the NFL still
our website.
I have a change in the website.
You don't have to do the shout out to?
Who's that?
The dog.
The dog.
Yeah.
Our dogs.
Dog.
I'm sure there are multiple dogs involved.
We don't know.
That played Rex.
We played Rex.
Beautiful dog.
Yeah.
And the way they're able to train the dog, the dog acted, I mean, a dog acted like it had
its own personality in which human.
And there's some interesting aspects to this film, too, because it helps people understand
how it works.
These dogs don't just sniff something out and they start freaking out.
What they do is when they find something, they stop and they sit down.
And that says, there's something here.
And a lot of people don't know that.
And I just learned that recently that that's how that works.
Well, it's kind of like the same with the drugs, drugs, no, yeah, it's the same as
that thing.
And the reason they do this is because they don't want to start panic, but they want
to be alerted to that there's something there.
And I thought that was a really cool thing.
They showed you how they do that.
And I think Common does a great job as guinea mud.
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I'm a big fan of Common to begin with.
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So if you don't see him as A.
How you looked at the computer and erasing
and we were, you see him as I looked at his white face depicts
every night and every night.
And I thought he was looking at you, we were folks.
He was really great.
I was at a private meeting with Michael, or somebody else,
and basically a so pretty thing that we met in a
conversation.
There we have a video back.
And it shows the bond of the two,
going from, okay, you are barking.
At first time, I used, she sees that dog
and wants to buy her arm off.
And by the point, there's one point in a movie
where the unfortunate incident happens
where they'll die for each other.
Yep, and you see that bond of them
to growing together as a friendship
as one death counts on the other.
I mean, does a dog know really what specifically is going on
with minds and all that?
No, but the dog senses the danger.
Oh, absolutely.
So it's kind of like, these two,
I have your back here of mine.
Even though the first time they met,
they hated, you know, they hated each other.
But it shows that bond and growth between those two.
I really dug this.
Yeah.
I mean, this was really, really well done.
I really, this film, I think, has three parts.
Which you mentioned in your Witten Review?
Yeah.
That there's the pre-imposed Iraq in the Iraq.
So really, the three acts in the film are leading up
to her deployment, her deployment,
and then everything that happens after her deployment.
And that's really basically the way this film is structure.
But the deployment part in Iraq.
Incredible.
Oh, absolutely.
That film was so realistic.
Really lovely shot.
Yes.
Unfortunately, there's some people that pass away.
It's war.
I'm not going to give any major spoilers on this.
But it really shows the real life of, you know,
when they're out there, you know, you see the news and all that,
but you don't really see the dirt and grit of what happens
in these little, you know, skirts, skirmishers
that you hear nothing about really on TV.
This really shows the big fight between the two.
You know, I mean, it really shows real war
in Iraq and what these soldiers go through.
I totally agree with you.
There was one scene where they are at the training facility,
and there's a soldier comes back and who
has talks to the group saying, everything you learn
for yet it.
When you get there,
get everything you just learned,
totally different ballgame.
You must learn what you have learned.
And it shows the PTSD.
I'm not in a real big scale, but it does show it.
Yeah, it shows it.
I think for both, we're the dog and for, oh, absolutely.
You know, I mean, you know, it's kind of slow moving
in the beginning, you know, but I chose for growing up,
but I love the war scene.
I love the war scene.
I see, I didn't have a problem with the pacing at all.
I thought it was really good.
You know, I thought it took a little bit in the first part
to get going, but still two hours long, perfect timing,
I think, you did drag, you did really, well,
okay, watch meter.
See, we saw this a while ago, so I have to think back.
I want to say 35 minutes, but it was up there.
Yeah, it wasn't the record, but it was up there.
Yeah, it was not the record, but it was definitely, yeah.
Yeah, it was a highly ranked on the meter.
Yeah, okay.
I mean, what, what did you like about this?
I don't know if there's anything I do.
I love this film.
I really really enjoyed this film.
Would you have changed anything?
I don't know if I would, I would have liked to have maybe known
more about her quest to adopt the dog.
I kind of felt maybe that went a little faster
than it should have.
And I think the ending, the end of that kind of fast.
I mean, there's a cool scene at a major venue that's kind
of cool, definitely, but then it just kind of,
it's at that point where it's a couple, but it doesn't tell you
what happens after all.
Yeah, but it's a couple.
I think they should have, could have showed more of that.
I thought, there was something I know when you did love,
which is like real photos and videos.
I know, I'm a big fan of that.
Yeah, I think they should have shown a couple more.
Maybe some shots, maybe some things, but at least they did that.
But I think, yeah, the ending, they kind of rush fast.
The, is it a little bit slow in the beginning,
but overall still, this is a good film, especially for that.
If that has to see this thing, especially if they're totally agree with you.
If they did time in Afghanistan, they did time in Iraq, you name it.
This will hit home, because they'll believe like, yeah, that's so
what I remember those dogs, those dogs are out there.
If they served in those combat zones, they don't
what those dogs, you know, so.
And you know how big of a supporter we are of our troops.
Oh, our troops, exactly.
So, I could say is overall, I really enjoyed this film.
All right, anything we should say for you to final analysis?
All right, the final analysis, the way we do it on this show,
we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down.
We're not going to give you letter grades.
We're not going to give you bugles and anything like that.
What we're going to do is we're going to ask two questions.
Question number one, what do you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, then we want to know a follow question.
And that follow of question is, how far you will want to go to see it?
You want to pay full price of the theater,
would you rather wait till a twilight or a matinee or early morning
on the weekend, or maybe second run at the dollar theater,
or maybe you leave your house again in a red box,
or do you stream it from Netflix, or do you wait for it on cable?
Dom, would you see this again?
Well, that's a definite.
How far you want to go?
I'd say probably something like a matinee to twilight in a thing
or something like that.
It's upper echelon, but not what you refer to as the coveted.
No, because I really liked it.
I definitely recommended wholeheartedly,
but I thought the ending was a little rush,
little soon beginning, but beyond that, you know,
still get me a film.
It's worth the money.
I'm going to go just to step above you.
I definitely would see this again,
but I'm going to support her line to twilight full price.
I think this movie is that good.
And I think this story is that important.
And I just want everybody to get out and see it
because I want this message out there and go check it out.
You know, it is Megan Levy.
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