iTunes Exclusive Episode Wonder

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But it also means you've checked this out on your favorite podcast app, because it is time for iTunes exclusive 330, nice round number, nothing wrong with that. Welcome, my name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast, and this is one of those episodes that I wish we could use some different music, because that's a pretty cool stuff I have lined up for this one, that's all good. I'm not alone for this particular episode, joining me on the, across the desk as he tends to from time to time, is the official fact checker of this show, and a man who marvels at a lot of things in this life.

You may know him as fond on go, but his mama name him Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford. Welcome, sir. I wasn't good at marvels with kids, I didn't say marvels, I said marvel, you marvel at a lot of things.

You are intrigued by many. Oh, I look in the sky a lot, at night stars are beautiful, whatever do we do one of these it is to review something, and this is no different. Based on a New York Times bestseller, director and writer Steven Chaboski, brings us wonder for what's up this whole thing, yes, sir, you got to think Austin Sly Fox ready to sing.

All right, zini, zini, zini, zini, zini, we're such a fan. This is based on the book by RJ Palacio, and thanks to our friends, it's Sly Fox, for giving us, giving you the opportunity to see this. I have not had a chance to check this out, we were kind of doing the divide and conquer thing that night.

You did for the empire. Checking it out, seeing what's going on. This again, I guess it's based on a New York Times bestseller, basically here's what you need to know, it's the story of August Pullman.

He's a boy with some facial differences, who's going to mainstream elementary school for the first time. So you've got Jacob Tremblay, you've got Owen Wilson, you've got Julia Roberts, you've got Mandy Patankin, you've got Davy Diggs, interesting cast to this. This runs, let me get you an official runtime on this, right, just under two hours, yeah, an hour 53, yeah.

So you got that going for you, Don, let's just, let's get straight to it, what do you think? Oh, got a very lead here, all right? Loved it.

You're not bearing the lead. Yeah, I mean, you're not bearing the lead, would you say that? No, no, I loved it.

Good. Well, let's talk about it, man. Tell me the things you loved about it.

Well, it's with Oggy, we call Oggy in a movie, they call Oggy. He's a kid with, he was at one in a billion kids because of the genes of his parents, and we as born, his face had issues, and they've been 21 operations on him. So you know, he's been home school, they're kind of scared, because you know what kids could be like on playground, you know, and sometimes they could be, you know, real brutal.

But the kid has some genius. In a way, it kind of be, remind me of the movie Mask with Eric Stoltz and that, I could see that. I could see that.

It really had a lot of, if this was a novel based, a remake of Mask in a way, it was, because there's a lot of similarities between the two. Well, this was the second novel from Stephen Chabowski to be adopted in a film, the other one being, the perks of being a wallflower, but also the second time that Tremblay has been the, a story's been hold from his perspective, and I don't know if you remember this, but he played the, the son in room, one of the, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that, yeah, which is in this, too, Emma, okay. But with the, with the film, the family, he has a good loving family, Owen, Owen and Roberts, they, you know, on Western, the Roberts, good parents, got the sister that loves him, Vi or V, they call her, she's kind of in the high school age, but she's dealing with the issues pretty well considering how, Auggie gets a lot of the attention because of the disability and stuff, but when you're together, they're a normal family, you know, you can see with this kid, and I put my written video, www dot the club us podcast dot com.

That is our website. In this review, in this movie, it kind of reminds me of my lovely wife of Fantastic Faith Ford. Who were fans up?

Yeah, and she went to this movie. Oh, she loved it. She loved this film.

Good. Yeah, love this film. Excellent.

She's my plus one. Great, great film for the family, for the date, everything. But the thing that brought her up is because the Fantastic Faith Ford with her is if she doesn't know you, if you're a new person, she'll be nice, she'll smile, say hi, but she's quiet.

I tend to be the same way, but once she gets to know you, watch out, she's a ball, ball of wax. All right, loads to have fun. When she opens up, fun person to be around, she'll give up, come up, give you the hug and all that.

And that's the thing with Auggie. When he started in a weird situation, he understands he doesn't look normal. And so he kind of own it and embrace it a little bit.

He does it in a way, and he uses his imagination a lot. The reason they have wonder and all that, because he loves, he goes, one day I'll be in space. He loved the thing of being an astronaut.

And in the posters, we do see him wearing an astronaut's helmet. And he does that a lot, because it's just one time that his parents gave it to him. He wore it a lot when he walked to school.

He wear that, because he's kind of a shame. But once he, when we first started school, he was the quiet kid. People looked at him.

They touched him. They get the disease and catch it and all that stuff, you know how things could be. But once he opens up and these kids get to know him, it's just like in a movie mask.

Everybody loves the kid. And the cool, the kids start to eat lunch with them instead of being at the table alone, stuff like that. And you really start to really love this kid.

You realize this is a good, good kid. And just kind of like in mask, which I put again in my written review at www.copastballcast.com It's still our website. It's still our website.

I've heard on there that you get used to it during the film. At first, you kind of look at it and you go, I see how it is. I kind of see the look.

But then as time goes on in the film, you even forget that he's deformed. And that kind of happened in mask too in the movie mask when I watched. I saw that kind of same thing there.

In the same way with the kids, after they realized, hey, this is a fun kid. He has a great personality. He loves the video games.

You know, he could be a cool kid, fun to be around. Everybody loves him. But in this film, of course, and I got to give it out first off, the acting by Tremblay was incredible playing the kid.

The complimenting cast with Wilson and Robert. The family, they do good as the family, but tanking plays the school principal, but he kind of does that role. Remember from home front criminal lines, he kind of played that guy that great guy, great personality, but don't mess with him.

But I got to give it to Gashar, Bryce Gashar plays Jillian. He plays the leader of the bullies, put it that way. You know, kind of the guy who, the rich elite kid, yaddy yaddy, but the way he acted, he plays that role really well too of being a kid who's kind of in a way makes fun at the beginning and then starts getting jealous of him.

In this film, that's what I liked about it is just not the story of him getting accepted and getting to know the people. It really shows how, you know what, sometimes kids could be cruel. And some of the stuff that Jillian does on this, you really learn the hateous character.

But then there's one scene where he gets caught, parents are in there and he's struck to realize why maybe he has this attitude. No, you know, no, my or sport learned parents, you know. But so I think the acting overall, the cast overall, they play their parts well, they play the family well, you know, you got to give it to the leads.

In this film though, the way they deal with the issues, it's kind of like in the movie Gleason. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you happy. So it runs that emotional gambit, doesn't it?

Oh yeah, very better runs it well, where you can get those changes and you can get that little high and the low and you'll laugh and you'll cry. And the fantastic faith forward, oh, she teared up a couple times, there's a point where I teared up. Also you heard the sniffles in the audience, you heard the sniffles in the audience, but they're those good cries and those good moments of triumph and those things of adversity.

How the movie, I think the movie, how they did it and what they did at the end, I think they did it very well. It was a good way to end it because in this movie, he also has imagination and it kind of brings that like there be times where he thought he'd be an astronaut and I'll walk through the halls like I'm an astronaut and everybody give me high fives and I'll just imagine I'm in that astronaut uniform and I'm the big cheese. And even though people were staring at it, he kind of realized and that's how he dealt with it.

But the way they they ended this film, of course being swirly free was very, very incredible. That emotional gamut, you feel for this kid, you love for this kid, you support him all the way and you will have the emotions and if this film does not affect you, like you like to say, you're a communist and you have no soul. Check your, check your pulse.

Yeah, I know we did the divide and conquer, I know we haven't, I haven't heard about you review yet, but I think I got the better straw on this one. No disrespect, you know, none taken, but good for the family, good, great date night movie. Trust me on that.

Me and the fantastic pay for it had a fun time on that one, great, great, you know, where you could put the arm around the wife and enjoy the time, you don't, you can leave the man card at the home who cares because this is good for the entire family, great date night, great family film. And you know, it's not that bad. If they want to talk bullying in school, this could be a film to show.

Oh, really? Honestly, honestly. Yeah, I'm trying to think, yeah, there were some mean moments and stuff.

I think that'd be a good way to show it to the film, maybe to the high schools, to the junior highs and stuff, because there's nothing really bad about it. I mean, the rating is, what is the rating on this PG? Okay.

Nothing major. I mean, I think it could be a film like to even show the sixth graders junior highs easy and just talk about, you know, how kids can be cruel. Hmm.

All right. So then you're ready to get to the final analysis on this? Sure thing.

Let me do the final analysis on this show. We're not going to give you a thumbs up, thumbs down. We're not going to give you, you know, letter grades, numbers, spaceships, anything like that.

We're going to ask Don up the two questions. Question number one is, would he see this film again? If the answer is no, then we're done here.

But if the answer is yes, then I'm going to ask him a follow up question. And that follow up question is, how far is he willing to go to see it again? And here's from the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's how it works.

Full price at the theater, then we're going to go down to like a twilight show, then maybe down to a, a matinee, then maybe do an early morning weekend show, then maybe down to second run at the dollar theater, down to actually leaving your house to go get red box streaming on Netflix or cable. Don, would you see this again? Um, without a doubt.

All right. How far you willing to go? This one here, I haven't heard it in a while.

The coveted without a doubt. Really? Full price.

And I know we're close to the end of the year, but unless there's about four or five six films that come out there better than this one, this will make my top 10 to the year. Wow. Yeah.

That's high praise. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

That list is coming soon. Yes, of course. Very, very soon.

Yeah, very soon. But still, yeah, this will probably make my top 10 to the year. All right.

That says it. Steven Shaboski's wonder. Are we in this whole thing?

Yes, I have. Got to thank Austin, everybody. It's Live Fox.

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Thank you guys so much. We're such big fans of everybody. It's Live Fox.

It's one of the things they do for us besides the fact that they're high quality human beings. Of course. They give us the opportunity to see films in advance so that we can review them from our fans, the Empire, and they can help make the best possible decisions with their entertainment dollar.

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