iTunes Exclusive Episode Nightcrawler

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It also means maybe you subscribe on iTunes and we greatly appreciate that. As it is time for another team to listen to today, my name is Rob and I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast or one stop shop for all things sports and entertainment. Normally, but today, we're going to focus more on the entertainment side of it because whatever we do, and I've seen this thing, it's usually to review something and this particular edition by the way, number 57 is no exception.

But before we get to the reviewing, we're going to introduce you to the other people in the room. Joining me to my left is a man who bulls like a fiend. Oh, you can almost say a king because he is the king of bullying.

He is Andrew Beckham, welcome to the show, sir. Welcome. Thank you for having me on.

It's always an honor, sir. Also joining us to his left is the official fact checker of this show and a man who is no stranger to a loincloth. You ain't know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and even don't forward.

I'm going to call him Don for the welcome, sir. Yeah, but Deb had to. As we are recording this, it is Halloween.

He's not in costume in the studio. We just want you to know I can change that if you want. No, no, no, no, we're good.

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We are reviewing today the latest film starring Jake Jill and Hall and directed by Dan Gilroy. It is called Night Crawler. Dan Gilroy more known as a writer than a director.

This is his very first directed film. He wrote things like the boring legacy real steel, the fall too for the money, which I don't know if you want to admit that or not, but still. This is definitely a different from that.

Jake Jill and Hall plays the man by the name of Lewis Bloom. He's a small-time thief. Just trying to make just a brother trying to make some money in LA and one night slash early morning on his way home from work.

He comes across a motor accident in a car crash, if you will. As he's kind of watching this thing happen, he sees a van pull up and out of the van comes Joe Loder played by Bill Paxon, who is a videographer for lack of a better term, but he basically finds all of these gruesome scenes and films them and then sells them to local television stations. Lewis gets an idea by some self a little cancorder and starts trying to get into this business.

Where he gets his first good footage and he sells at the local channel six to the overnight news director played by Renee Russo named Nina Romina. Not to be confused with Julia Gullia to completely different people and things go from there. That's kind of where I'm going to leave it.

We were able to thanks to our best friends at Allied integrated marketing. I love those guys. They gave us the chance to watch this the other night.

We're going to talk to you about it. Don, let's start with you. Dan Gilroy right out of the box first feature film.

What do you think? Well, I don't want to give the big spoiler at the end. I got to give him credit on this.

He did write this to of course. Yes, he did. I'd say when it comes to like the look of the film, most of this is at night or early dawn.

I can only think of maybe two or three scenes that take place in the daytime. Exactly. When it comes coming up, I'm going to move it as a solid two hours.

The early dawn shots were done correctly. I thought just like in 24 they were able to get the time of day thing out there. Most of us was at night, but I thought the lighting in the look of the film were perfect for what they were doing at, you know, for the film.

Because every night's shot, it wasn't too bright. It wasn't too dark. I thought that the look of the film was spot on considering what it was night.

It wasn't too dark to light. Andrew, I wouldn't have to say that strong performance is really carried this movie for me. Let's talk about the direction first before we get to the acting.

Float, float, will. I guess coming, not really knowing anything except for them. I think I only saw the trailer once for this movie.

Okay. Just like me. Yeah.

For a first time, I would say he almost said it's spot on. It's almost like he had a lot of help, you know, in directions. People that were willing to help him, maybe I don't know if he had any balls on his own, you know, in direction.

But for day B, I think it did great. Yeah. For me, I thought the vision of the film was great.

Again, we talk about this a lot when we do these. When the writer is the director, it leaves a very small margin for air in translation of a vision. And I think Gilroy does a very, very good job visually with this film.

There are certain points where you kind of the way he shoots it. You're in the car with him. Or there's one shot where he sweeps around the back of the car to the front that I thought was really, really cool.

And it kind of gave you that kind of a almost dizzying sense. So what was going on? Because at that scene, the film was very, very intensive and very high action.

So you kind of needed that kind of just adrenaline jump to it. That makes any sense. But let's talk about the performances.

Andrew, I'm going to let you lead off because you're you're segueing into that yourself. Talk to me about the performances in this film. To be honest with you, I think three the three performances that really stand out to me that really drove the entire movie were this Louis Bloom and the Nina character and then Bill Paxon's character because I think Bill Paxon's character really it draws out Louis Bloom's character.

Without him, you won't, you will never see his real intentions. All right, done. When it comes down to it, there's basically only three and a half roles in Paxon being the half role.

It's basically, we're going to add that he does hire a guy named Rick to be his quote in turn. Louis by Riz Ahmed. Between the four roles there, the main roles.

I thought the chemistry was great. I thought they all worked well together. I cannot say really anything too bad about the acting in this.

But if you go to my written review on the quadpasspodcast.com, that is our website. Jill and Hall, I remember him starting off really seeing him for the first time in October sky as sweet little Homer. And he's always had that kind of shock me when you reference October sky because I'm like he's done so much more.

I know, but that's how I first started it. Totally totally. And over time, I've seen him progress to even movies like end of watch, which was incredible to these, you know, more serious roles or not Mr.

Sweet Homer. In this film, they're all great performances. But beyond belief, Jill and Hall hit this out of the park beyond belief in my opinion.

I could not agree with you more. He plays the perfect psycho, vindictive, unconsciousness, evil person, a man without a conscience. And he played this role to the tea.

And if I was a member of the academy, I'd be putting him as for a nod for the best picture, best actor at the Oscars next year on this performance. He, I, it was incredible. I cannot say how much he impressed me on this film as such an evil guy without a conscience.

And what do we even talk about? Did we ever see a blink? That was something that a friend of mine brought up.

Yeah. It was just when I was watching this movie right off the bat. You see Jill and Hall's character and you go, something right with his bullet.

Like, and not in a good way. Like, and I spent a lot of the film going is he sociopathic or is he just playing the delusional? I think.

And that was my thing. I mean, by the end of the film, you pretty much figure it out. But you spent a lot of the time going, is this like a rainman kind of a thing with him or is he just insane?

Because he has such a recall for detail that you don't know if that's just kind of him living in his own world. Or if he's just like, like I said that that rainman kind of character where he's just that detailed oriented and he's just not good with people or it's it's just that that you spend the most movie going really seriously. What does this do damage?

Yeah. And one thing he, he doesn't care about. The only thing he cares about is getting the shot.

What he wants to get that footage and he'll do it at all cost just to get to have the lead story on the news the next day. And he will screw over people. He won't salt him.

He will throw him away like trash. He will use them, abuse them. But the really word part which makes his character even more psychotic which impress me so much is he wanted acceptance by the other people.

He will show somebody inside but he wants other people to recognize him and be his buddy. Incredible. It was a great, it's a character that has a lot of level to it.

Totally. Many, many levels to this character which I absolutely love. But you can't talk about Jill and Hall and not talk about Renee Russo.

Oh yeah. She played the little as the overnight news director that that wants the story almost as bad if not worse than he does. And you find that more about her character as the film goes on and some of the motivations there.

She still got it. Oh yeah. She was great.

There was sometimes where you go okay with her and she walks that line between damsel and distress and really really strong woman and she does it very well. And he thoughts on Renee Russo. They had like I said chemistry was incredible.

Their character was very, very good. They fed off each other and like you're saying she got into her role to at the very end on when she, he brings in this what would be incredible news footage that look under Facebook. Yeah.

Yeah. I get the feeling that she was almost exactly like him just not on that level of being sociopathic. Yeah.

She had her own kind of teenage to it. Right. They're in in the end together.

Yeah. The fabulous salute. I just, I was blown away through this whole film.

It's one of those movies where you're exhausted by the end of it. You know, there were some scenes. And this theater was almost packed during the screening.

Yes it was. And there are some scenes where you could almost hear a pin drop in that theater, which I put on my review. Yeah.

There are a couple high intensity scenes. Yes. Now we've got a warning for that this is not for everybody, not for the kids, of course, and stuff like that.

There is some brutality and some, you know, real scenes. But there were some scenes are so on the edge of your seat. You could hear the pin drop in that theater.

Yeah. Very intense. Yeah.

And I'm not for sure of the diet that we had to go on. Jill and all. Yeah.

But each, his physical appearance looked just as he was acted. It was just, it was scary. Just a look at him.

Anything on any, any downsides to the film for you, gentlemen. I've already been wrecked because I said, I said when we finished this watching Jill and Hall in this film, it was like he watched no country for old men in American Psycho, just on a loop. And, uh, haveier Bardem's character and Christian Bell's character just kind of melded into one person.

That's what I did. I don't have any complaints about this film. Before this being his direction or the debut, other than I was mentally exhausted when it was over.

Yes. From all the twists and turns that were actually pleasant in the movie. Yes.

Yeah. For the viewer, not obviously not for. Yeah.

Yeah, not for the people. But there were some nice curveballs in there where we were like, oh, that just happened. You know, you're going to Jill though that evil evil, can I be, you know, I'll leave the other words off.

But I'd rather be. Yeah. But there was like, how could you?

Oh, you're ruthless, you know, but I loved it. I loved it. I loved it beyond belief.

Academy, this kind of, I honestly, he deserves to be one of those five nominated next year. That's it. Home is important.

You'll be for me. We've talked about this before. That field is so deep this year.

I don't envy the Academy at all this year because there's been so many great performances on every level for best picture, best actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, director. It's going to be a madhouse to get this wittle down to what the Academy wants to do for, whether it's the Oscar, whether it's whether it's the Golden Globes or anything this year. It's going to be a very interesting to see how they whittle that field down.

But he should be in the talk. Great. Great performances on every level.

Yeah, but Jill Hall, but deserves being the talk on, you know, his name deserves to be brought up a little bit when we discuss this. Well, gentlemen, that will bring us to the final analysis. The way we do a final analysis on this show, we don't give you rankings.

We don't give you letters or stars or thumbs or anything. That's what you're better than that. Basically, it's a two-pron question.

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 how would you see this film?

Would you go see it at first run, Twilight, date time, early morning? Would you wait for it in second run? Would you wait for it on Blu-ray or DVD or would you wait for it on cable?

Donald, start with you. Would you see this film again? Oh, down in heartbeat.

Outstanding. Then how would you see it? Me personally, I'm kind of, I put this as either a Twilight at the theaters or the full price.

Between the two, you know, I didn't give it the full full full thing because there are a couple scenes of brutality and might not be for it. There's a graphic violence in it. But overall, it deserves at least a Twilight if not a full price theater.

Andrew, definitely see this again. How would you see it? The later it night the better for me.

I think I'm going to agree with you on that. I would see this again and I would say, go, you can pay full price for this and not be disappointed. It just, have a strong stomach.

Exactly. You know, if you're, if you're somebody that gets kind of weirded out by stuff before worn, but if you're somebody that can kind of separate yourself from the entertainment value of it, go see this movie. It is absolutely insane.

Yes. But in a good way. Great, oh yeah.

And on the edge of the scene. I don't know about the date movie, but you know, dates are you going on? Maybe not a first date movie.

Yeah. Yeah. I think everybody's out like for the absolute.

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