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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast and I have a bit of an
overactive imagination.
No shame to say that.
But I'm not alone for this particular edition are 149th.
One of these.
If you can believe that.
Joining me across the desk is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man who kind of likes the comforts of his own home.
You may know him is fun, don't go, but his mom and name him Don Ford, I'm going to call him
Don Ford, welcome sir.
I got a bayet, I got a couch, nothing wrong with that running water which is more than Montana.
Exactly.
Whenever we do one of these it's usually to review something in this particular edition
is no different.
Today we are reviewing the latest film from Director Lenny Abramsin who you would know mostly
by a film that came out last year with Michael Fassbender called Frank where he wore
a big mask and a mask got thing on his head.
This is called room.
It is based on the book.
I lost my place.
There it goes.
Based on the book by Emma Donahue who also did the screen play of her own book.
It stars Bree Larson who's become kind of an indie darling as of late.
She plays.
I character we just know as mom.
Yeah.
She is raising her young son Jack.
She is raising her young son in what appears to be just the one room apartment.
He is five and at the age of five they actually end up leaving the room and going
into the outside world where Jack really has to learn a bunch of new things and how both
he and his mother adjust to life outside of the room.
Before we get on this one.
I have to think.
All I did in the greater marketing.
Our best friends.
Ashley in age 24 for what inviting all of us to this thing.
And for let me see this thing.
After seeing this I got to thank them so much on this one.
Yeah.
I was not able to attend this particular screening.
Unfortunately I was actually looking forward to this.
We're just going to let you get right into it.
Let's just start with the script itself.
Emma Donna Hugh writing the screenplay based on her novel.
Which is kind of it's not a rare thing.
It's just not as common as people would think.
A lot of times Hollywood will hire screenwriters to adapt material.
She adapted her own.
Tell me about the story here.
The story is.
Which I put my written via the clubhouse podcast.com.
That's our website.
Which is pre and post room.
So you feel like there's like two different movies going on.
Totally different films.
And I'm saying that in a very good way.
Because once they leave that room.
The circumstances changes change immensely.
Just drastically night and literally day and night literally on this.
And how Jack is able to adjust to the outside of being outside of the room.
And let's just just say this much.
There are some suspicious circumstances that cause them to be in the room.
But we want to be spoiler.
Right.
Because a lot of people even IMDB doesn't allude to the dark underbelly of this thing.
The trailer for it kind of does.
But there are a lot of people that listen to this show that haven't seen the trailer that are kind of relying on us to kind of give them what they need it.
And I think that the other part of this story that we're not talking about is best kept for when you see the film.
Exactly.
But like you said, there's in the room.
There's out of the room.
And it really feels like two completely different stories.
And the thing is Jack from birth till age five never left the room.
That's all that Jack knows.
Jack played by Jacob Trimbley.
Yes.
Exactly.
And once you know him from, he did some voices in the Smurf's two.
I mean, he's a young kid.
So he's a fairly.
Yeah.
For his age, I think he's roughly eight from what I understand.
Even though he plays a five year old in this, he has a few things under his credit though for being that young.
So yeah.
But he's done some shorts as well.
But how Jack has to adapt to this new life of being outside the room.
And how he's able to adapt in everything.
That's the last half of the movie.
How Joy and Jack deal with being outside of this room.
I call it two different toy different plots.
And some incredible scenes that show that.
Like the room was one four, one little room.
When they're outside the room and living in a different location,
their stairs.
Jack never walked upstairs in his life.
Because he's never seen them.
They've never been outside the room.
Never seen stairs.
Never seen anything.
And how he's able.
They have to show how to walk upstairs.
Because it's something totally new.
A telephone.
They had to actually put show him how to put the telephone against his head and say,
start talking.
You know, and so there's drastic differences between the two.
But being inside the room.
That's the world that Jack knew.
Because he thought that is the world.
And how I got to give it to the lady.
Joy, who tries to make this a.
A beautiful world was what they have.
I would say by the great.
Breelers and you would know as one of our favorite films.
From a couple of years ago short-term 12.
Yeah.
That she was at also the very highly acclaimed.
The spectacular now.
Yeah.
And she will be in the upcoming.
Kong, Skull Island.
Now, before we go any further in, like into the acting,
I want to say how the look of the film was very good.
It kind of had a dark feel even all the way through it.
vernor.
A lot of cloudy days.
You could say in there.
Even though there are no.
fall and everything like that. Usually in that time of year you're gonna get a lot of cloudy days
in that part of the country. It's still how kind of that dark feel which I think was perfect
in how they were able to film this movie in that little room is a compliment on itself.
Because I thought the placement and the use of the sets were very, very good on this thing.
I was standing. Yeah. Going into the acting which I put in my written review at theclubespacast.com
That's a website. Jack enjoy. You want chemistry between two people that this is a film
the watch. But it huggled and sinker. Oh, beyond belief. I mean, these two play off each other so
well between uh, trembling and larson. The bond they have throughout this film is something you see
once every couple of years. Wow. Yeah. That's high phrase coming for you. Oh yeah. The how they
fed off each other um also to the acting which I you know put on on the review is that
trembling hit it out of the park for being an eight year old in this thing. For the situations
of what they go through and everything, how he plays the role, how he handles it emotionally,
showing what would if this was real life, he played it perfectly on what would happen if this was real
life. He played the part two at T pre and post room played both parts to a T. Now you've also got a
couple of other heavy hitters in this film. Joan Allen and William H. Macy both who I'm huge fans.
Yeah. Macy I got a warning you is in there for about 10 15 minutes. Okay. Okay. Fair enough. But
there's one scene in there and this is post room and when it hits, you'll know he hit it out of the
park. It's such an emotional scene and of course we are being totally spoiler free which absolutely
that one scene after that happened. I'm going this is like Oscar, Oscar performance on it because
it really hits hard. It hits you emotionally and I would love to say explain what it happened but I won't
but that one performance was one of the best in the film. I mean incredible on how he acted
during that situation. Also Bridges, Bridges who plays a friend same we'll show them Bridges.
Yeah. Bridges who plays a we say Quentin's called Old Nick handles that situation very well.
He played that part to a T also on what the situation that that he plays and the character he plays
he did sweet home Alabama in 2002 but not a lot of things would you really know him?
I mean he did one episode of True Blood a couple episodes of the practice. Not a guy who you would
consider to be a household name but he's been around for a while. He's also in Deadwood and also
Tom McKinnis who plays the wife of his mother or he could say Maz or Joyce new stepdad.
He could put that way. He played that part of dealing with Jack in building that relationship.
He played that part part very very well of a very caring understanding step grandfather.
He played that very good. Okay. I was impressed on that. Any other standouts for you in this?
Basically when it comes down to it there's only the most of the movie is Larson and Trimbley.
Okay. Bridger's somewhat. May you see like I said about 10 15 minutes.
Joan Allen. Yeah. Joan Allen. Yeah. She's Joan Allen.
Joan Allen. One of the great. Stone Allen. She's probably through most of the last half of the
film. Her and how McKinnis had the chemistry of being a married couple and dealing with the situation.
They did very good too. I mean of course when the Allen you know you're going to get but she
she played the role very very good. One thing I want to add on this this film
it will make you happy. It will make you sad. It will put you on the edge of the seat for a certain part of the film.
You will literally be on the edge of the film. So it is an emotional roller.
Of course. And there's a couple of scenes where
it will just hit you in the in the stomach like a load of bricks or you just go ah fair enough.
Yeah. But it's done in a very very good way. They hit that emotional roller coaster on this film
left and right. Now the film's about two hours long. For me it did you can tell it was long but
it did not seem long. Okay. You probably on your watch will probably be 45 an hour in.
Okay. Okay. The watch gauge put it down. Right. Then when we flowed well the paste well
and how they can make basically two films into one was done incredibly. So I got given to
the direction on this thing in the plot in the storyline. I cannot say enough about it and finding
some kind of fault in this thing. I really can't. All right. That mean we're here for the final
now. Yes we are. The way we do the final analysis on this show. We don't give you thumbs up thumbs
down, letter grade stars, numbers. We're not like that. Our audience we whom we affectionately refer
to as the empire is better than that. I'm going to ask John two questions. First question I'm
going to ask Don is would you see this film again if he says no then we're done here. But if he says
yes I'm going to ask him how far he's willing to go. Full price, twilight, matinee, early morning
on a weekend, a second run at the dollar theater, red box, Netflix cable. Don would you see this
film again? Oh definitely. How far are you willing to go? Play and simple. I wish that you and Chad
should have been there with me. I would have loved to have been there trust me. I'm with
out of doubt to covet it. This will make my top 10. Wow. This will marry nine. Without a doubt
my top 10 of the year this whole year. So you are highly recommending. Oh yeah and good for
this show Ashley from Allied. She said before this screener started, she said I've already seen
this three times and I can watch it again. Wow. Okay. It's that in and after seeing the film I
totally understand why. And so you can actually thank you again Ashley Allied age 24. Thanks for
letting us invite us to this thing and let me see this thing. It was incredible incredible film.
The film is called Room directed by Lenny Abramson, Brie Larson, Jacob Trembler,
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