iTunes Exclusive Episode Puerto Ricans In Paris

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My name is Rob, I am the Executive Producer of the Clubhouse podcast, and as Charlotte
once said, I may hate the French, but I want to go to Paris.
I am not alone for this particular episode, joining me across the desk at C10's to do
is a man who has a very greater than zero chance of actually having been to Paris because
he's been a lot of time overseas in his younger days, he has Chad Bogum's Earth.
You know, I've been to both places mentioned in the title of what you're about to review.
There enough?
And probably the third where the story starts as well, I do.
Oh, okay.
I think it's the official fact checker of this show, and a man who I know has not been
to Paris because he says it in his review at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
And then her website?
That it is.
You may know him as Fondango, but his name is Mamba name and down forward, I'm going
to call him down forward.
Welcome, sir.
Which is our website?
I don't know.
I don't know.
You're my question, aren't you?
Well, played.
Whatever we do, one of these things, it is to review something and today is no different.
Chad, it's going to be kind of a...
He's going to kind of help move this thing along because this was a screening that Don and I attended
that Chad was not able to make do this in scheduling conflicts.
It is the from first time director, Ian Edelman.
This is a guy who's more of a writer.
He wrote a lot of Chad, if you remember the HBO series, how to make it in America, vaguely.
He wrote a lot of that episode to that.
This is the first time he's ever directed a feature.
It is called Puerto Ricans in Paris, and I'm very uncomfortable just saying that title.
Because people, if people just hear that part of the conversation, they're going to go excuse me, sir.
Before we start this whole Mayway, we have to think our best friends, ally, Josh, everybody.
We love ally in the great marketing.
Some of our favorite people in the entire world.
All right, thank you so much for the invite, guys.
And I'm very, very happy to be, I've seen this film.
And let me explain why.
I am a huge fan of Louis Guzmont, and I read on IMDB that is what he's preferred to be
known as Louis, not Louis.
So I'm calling him Louis, although his mom and they may be Louis, but Guzmont has been around forever.
But he's never, he's never had a leading role in a film.
He's always been that guy and that thing.
Wait, wait, like on the code black, he's the lead on that code black on CBS and stuff.
Right, but I'm talking about like in film.
Yeah, yeah, but he's never been asked to be the lead in a film.
There's kind of like the leading Kevin Bacon.
He never had any leads to a very young, he's that guy in that thing.
He's just a really well established character actor.
And he's a huge fan, and I'm a huge fan.
So I was like, okay, he's in this.
You've got misfoods that stop with the letter Q.
Rosie Perez is in this, Rosario Dawson is in this.
And a guy from how to make it in America, not a huge career yet.
But I don't, I don't, and I both agree, he's got a bright future ahead of him.
Guy by the name of Edgar Garcia, which I did put in my written view at www.clobasplacas.com,
which is our website.
Yeah, for you, right?
Yeah, this is like his third role you can say in acting, second film.
But from what I saw with him, if he keeps up the way he did in this film, I think he has a great
future.
Now, Chad, I need you to role with me for just a minute.
Because Luis, he goes on an Edgar Garcia play respectively, Luis and Eddie.
So stay with me.
Okay.
Okay.
They play a couple of undercover New York City cops who, basically, they specialize
in busting counterfeit bag rings.
Kind of for merchandise, you know, fake roll bags, so I would go, okay, okay.
So apparently, they have such a reputation that a young lady by the name of Colette played
by Alice Taglioni.
She comes over from France.
She's a huge purse designer, and they're saying that this next design that she's about
to release is going to be just even break her through even more.
But there were two prototypes of this bag, and one of them gets stolen.
So, and it comes back with a ransom note that says, you have six days.
If you don't get me X amount of euros, I'm going to flood the market with counterfeit
bags, and it's going to drive your business into the toilet.
So, Eddie is also Luis's brother-in-law.
He is married to Eddie's sister, played by Rosa Perez.
Okay.
I figured that's where we were going.
No, Eddie's is very, no, I thought you said that wrong, my bad.
No, I got this one right.
Okay.
Well, but Eddie's kind of a ladies man, as a man who in his mid-life tries to be.
And he has been dating a young lady, played by the Great Rosario Dawson, and so not only
does on the same diet as Luis kind of loses his lady, because he's the fearing commitment,
but Eddie gets into a little problem with his wife, because he forgets it's their anniversary.
Well, now they have to go to Paris to solve this case without said significant others.
So, you know, this is going over like a fardin shirt, basically.
But they're offered, if they solve this case, they're offered 150 grand a piece.
So, you know, there's a little bit of incentive there.
I love the tagline on the poster.
I can't read it.
No rules.
No mercy.
Yes.
So, I think we've set it up enough.
I loved this movie.
I'm going to bury Lee.
How do you cop films in recent years have been a very, very rough thing to deal with?
Prightalong.
Um.
Prightalong too.
There's, I like the Jump Street films.
Yeah, but the genre of the directors, but overall there's been some real.
Overall.
No, but I like both of those films.
I really did.
But overall, the genre has been kind of on life support the last few years.
I mean, I really, to me, I'd have to go back to, I mean, take the Jump Street movies out
of the equation.
And I'd have to go back to bad boys.
They've gotten very formulaic.
And there's just not been a lot, you know, lethal weapon it to me is the quintessential
buddy caught movie.
Always has been always will be.
But this, this kind of brings new life into it.
It really does.
And it's life that it's disproved.
And it's eating.
81 minutes long.
It's not very long.
Really?
Not even.
But, but in this case, that's a good, good thing.
Because, you know, Don and I talked about this quite a bit after our screening.
This thing moves, brother.
Yeah, it does.
Which I put my written view at www.cobaspodcast.com.
Which remains our website.
I put on there that, yeah, it's 80 minutes, but it didn't take out and put a lot of
useless.
I need a material.
It wasn't like we've got to stretch into an hour before, yeah, or two hours just to be
you're an hour, you know, an hour, 45 or whatever.
He did it right in, it made you laugh.
It felt like a good pace.
It seemed a little short at the very end, but not bad.
But you didn't get a bunch of useless filler material.
And it also didn't feel like they just had to wrap it up real quick.
Yeah.
Like, you kind of figured out, I would say within about five minutes of the reveal.
It wasn't one of those.
I mean, there's a couple of red herrings they throw you in here and there.
But, it wasn't like, oh, this is when this is going to happen and this is when this
is going to happen.
Yeah, the plot is not too hard.
Yeah, you can figure it out at the end and all that stuff.
But the comedy is a great thing in this film in a compliment so very well.
And I'm telling you, you will laugh all the way through this film.
And it's not in that laughing way where you're just like, oh, I'm not kidding.
I don't know.
It's good.
There were many as the old people like to call them belly laughs through this thing.
And especially, and don't leave during the credits, because there's some really great
outtakes that they use in the credits, something else that's been missing from.
Yes.
And great performance is all the way through.
And I said in my written review, which is at www.theclubhouse.com, which is our
website.
Which I think we've now set the record for another time, said that in the episode.
But I actually had to go to IMDB and look, both of these actors up to make sure they
weren't really related because their chemistry is so good.
Do you feel like they're almost there?
There are brother-in-law's or a family.
You feel like they're family.
It was a really, the chemistry between them I thought was really, really good, but just
the way they portrayed it.
Of course.
See ya.
It's great.
For it's third role.
It's to be a guy that if you're going to be a co-star, if you're going to be a
co-headlining on the one sheet, first of all, your name's there.
And it's next to Louie Guzman, brother, you've got some expectations to live up to.
You got to kind of bring it.
He delivers.
You really see this and you really wonder if they're really related because the chemistry
between them is so natural and they're so much given take between them, it's incredibly
natural.
That was one of the things I really dug the most about it.
I mean, Guzman, you know what you're going to get, but even he hit it very well and compliment
well.
Give me an idea.
He talked about a hit the single guy, the thing, through this film when he's in Paris
trying to get a new little, who, yes, you know, get the nice little French chick.
He probably took dating tips for me on what I tried.
Okay, I'm not, am I lying, Rob?
I could see Don trying that.
Oh, Don, but I, I was a brother.
It was a brother.
Yeah, yeah.
I thought Don would be smoother because Guzman, like there's no, you know, there's no shame
in game.
There was no shame in his game.
And it's like, you cringe at a couple of what's like, oh, he's not really going to do
this.
Oh, he just did that.
Yeah.
And then even Garcia got into it.
I'm going to say is the soap and towel when, oh, yes, you know what I'm talking
about?
And it's not like a prison scene.
Don't take the wrong way.
Yeah, maybe kind of cringe.
It's like, let's just put it this way.
It talks about hotel towels and hotel soap.
Don't need to do anything further than that off the air, maybe.
No, no.
It's not dirty.
It's just sometimes housekeeping doesn't get everything back.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
And that's towards the end of the film.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's.
Yeah.
And it's, I mean, it's rated our mainly for language.
Yeah.
I mean, there's a couple of adult situations, but cool brief nudity.
Right.
That's very, very brief.
Yeah.
But it's, it's written well.
It's not, it's not style over substance, nor is it substance over style.
This is going to, it's right now, it's in my top 10 films of the year that I've
seen.
Really.
It really is because and people do give me grief about a lot of those of the films
that I pick, but it's, I don't pick based on necessarily artistic value.
I based it on, what's I entertained by this film?
And I was incredibly entertained by this film.
It is show Paris well in the York well.
I mean, yeah.
And no big CGI, but they need all that.
And something, I don't know if you knew, don't.
They shot this entire film in 17 days.
The whole thing.
The whole thing.
Wow.
And you're talking filming in New York, you're talking filming in Paris.
And you're talking filming in Prague.
They filmed in all three locations in two and a half weeks.
Wow.
When I read that on IMDB, I was like, you have got to be kidding me.
Because it looks great.
It doesn't look like it was shot in the hurry.
I would love to see some of the more improvised stuff.
And I'm hoping that when there's, where there's a DVD, there's maybe some more outtakes.
Because you know there's some good stuff in there.
Yeah.
And you did very well, I thought.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
The whole classroom.
You can leave your brain at the door and have a fun time.
And that's the main purpose of the film.
Yeah.
Just leave your brain at the door, go in, laugh for an hour and a half.
It's just, it's a lot of fun.
I mean, I know that I was, I know your bummed you couldn't be there.
Is there any other questions that you have before we get to the final analysis?
Because Chad kind of works like our audience does in this.
Because he's going to ask the questions that our audience might want to know.
Do you think that maybe there are as a longer cut that exists of this considering that
it's such a short film?
I don't know that there's a team age, I don't know that there needs to be.
Like it's that good, it's perfect for what it is because an hour 21 is awful short
for a feature link film.
But for this, it doesn't feel, it feels like a feature film.
Because there's not a lot of story to tell.
I mean, the bag's been stolen.
Here's your four suspects.
We're going to go talk to each individual suspect.
And then we're going to have the reveal and then we're going to have the end of it.
Like it's, it's told straightforward.
There's no fluff.
There's enough comedy to get you through everything, you know, when they go, when they go
club hopping.
Oh, oh dear.
Like, well, but if a longer cut existed, would you see it?
Oh, absolutely.
Okay.
If it adds to what we saw, absolutely.
I mean, a huge fan.
That's all I really wanted to know that if there was a longer cut, if you would be just
coming to club hopping, imagine me trying to pick up girls.
But worse.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, it's one of those rare films that knows exactly what it needs to be.
And it is exactly that.
It knows it's not going for best picture nor does it want to.
It really looks like these just these guys all get together and had a really, really
good time for two and a half weeks.
And I don't mean as a director is debut.
I think a great job.
Yeah.
He did a really, really good job.
That's his great debut.
Hit it well.
I thought.
Anything else?
Before we get to the final analysis?
No, I'm intrigued.
All right.
Though we do the final analysis on this show, we don't give you thumbs up thumbs down.
I'm not going to give you letter grades, numbers, anything like that.
Our audience whom we affectionately refer to is the empire.
They want us to dig deeper.
So we're going to dig deeper.
Two questions.
Question number one, would you see this film again?
The answer's no.
And then we're done here.
The answer's yes.
The follow-up question is, how far you won't go to see it?
And you're going to pay full price.
You're going to go to maybe a twilight showing, maybe we're going to go a mat
nay.
You're going to early morning Saturday.
Maybe it's Dorothy or second run.
Maybe you'll actually leave your house and go to red box.
Maybe you'll stay at home, streaming on Netflix.
Maybe you wait for it on cable.
Do you see this again?
Oh, I will see this again.
All right.
How far?
I will probably recommend it as a matinee or even a twilight matinee for sure, but possibly
a twilight I would say.
I will see.
I will short for me.
I thought, but still enjoyed it.
Brain at the door.
I will see this again.
I would pay full price to see it again.
I think it's one of the best first date movies of the year.
Because it's a movie that you could take a first date too.
After you have dinner, get to know each other a little bit.
And just have fun for an hour and a half.
This may be, this may be a purchase on blue right, too.
That's how much I enjoyed this film.
Because I really want to see what extras they put on the blue right.
For nothing else because, again, I'm not red boxes and going to have that.
But I really enjoyed this film that much I would purchase it on blue right, to have in
my collection.
You've convinced me.
I'll see this thing.
It is.
It is.
I'll stick to you.
We got to think our best friends and jobs.
I love it.
Thank you guys.
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