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And then after that, we will jump right into our headliner of the evening, which would
be our breakdown of the iron claw.
Hell yes.
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I say let's do it.
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Alright, so excuse me, getting right into it with weekly watches.
So this week, I watched two movies that I've already seen before, but I wanted to revisit.
So the first one up is Child's Play, the 2019 remake.
And I'm just going to say it.
This movie did Megan before Megan was Megan.
And I think it did it better.
It did do it better, dude.
It did it so well.
Megan was fun in its own way.
But I think this did the whole AI thing a little bit better.
Yes.
And I feel it would have benefited.
It sucks that it had to be called Child's Play.
You know, makes sense with, you know, doing Chucky, everything like that.
But I feel if it didn't have to be Child's Play, if they could have just done it to where
with another different killer doll, I feel that a lot of people would have been more
attracted to it.
They wouldn't have gotten as much hate as it has gotten.
Because I feel when people actually finally check it out, they're just like, you know
what?
That actually wasn't bad.
That's one of the better horror remakes that I've seen, dude.
Throw in the the Megan system with this story.
I like this would have been a fantastic movie.
Yeah.
Like, merge the two, get rid of Chucky and just like make this the story for Megan.
Like that's a winning movie right there.
Yeah, I agree.
No, because like the cast still holds up.
I think that the only thing that I just have wrong sometimes is there are parts with the
Chucky animatronic that I'm just like, like, I can tell that your budget was very low.
But you know, I can totally look past that because this is one of this is probably my
favorite horror remake that I've ever seen, because it doesn't it doesn't frickin go
shot for shot like all the others.
It actually tries to do something new, but still keep the same basic story and characters.
Yeah.
And dude, frickin Mark Hamill is the voice of Chucky.
I mean, could you get any better?
Dude, right?
Seriously, like for real.
So with rating wise, I don't feel like don't this is great.
I don't think you really need that.
I don't think it requires to see it.
So I would say I'd give it a stream it.
Would you would you agree with that?
Or would you give it higher?
I would give it a stream it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Like dumb or like me and Caleb both enjoyed this movie the first time we watched it.
We both saw it in theaters.
And so like, you know, if you saw in theaters, great.
That's awesome.
But I feel it's it's one that it's fine if you experience it at home, but at least experience
this because this is one of the best horror remakes and it deserves love.
Yeah.
I'll definitely agree with you on that one.
And the next up, just because I haven't seen this in years, which really shocked me.
We watched dumb and dumber.
Love this movie.
One of the best comedies ever made, in my opinion, and I still laugh my ass off to this
day.
That's the sign of like dumb and dumber is one I feel is a timeless classic.
It is.
It was a one off comedy and it didn't need a prequel and it didn't need a sequel.
I love hearing Jeff Daniels like recount his time on dumb and dumber, or at least like
his story about getting cast.
Yes.
It's I especially love what he does between every take like Jim Carrey is just like he
easily flows into it.
But have you seen what Jeff Daniels would do like to get into the character of Harry?
He'd literally like shake his head and just make like a like a stupid face and he's like,
okay, I'm Harry done.
That's fantastic.
I love that he like so many people try to talk him out of doing this movie and he's
like, no, like I need to show that I can do other stuff.
And he can.
And I thought for years, years that all he did was comedies.
Because he's so good at it.
He is so good, dude.
If he feels so effortless.
Yeah.
And yeah.
So when I found out that he's like, anytime I see him in serious stuff, I'm like, that's
kind of weird.
Dude, same here.
Same here.
Because yeah, this was this movie was my first introduction to him.
Oh, man.
Great introduction though.
Great.
So just because I feel like I would love to experience this with an audience, just to
be able to laugh your ass off and just experience what a great comedy this is.
So I would give this a five buck Tuesday.
That's fair.
Okay.
This is one that you would absolutely have to have the right audience surrounding you.
100%.
So I think anyone willing to see this movie, like if they were to do one of those throwback
cinemas or whatever, I think that this would be a perfect one to get like a really good
group of people together.
Yes.
100% agree.
But yeah, so that's that's all I got for weekly watch.
So yeah, that was easy.
Yeah.
I've even been watching a lot of movies lately.
I've stuck with series two.
I get it.
I know I've I've freaking had so much going on that all I have time for are like little
shows.
I like even I've even attempted to start a movie during my lunch and I was like, I can't
do it.
I'm like, I have to watch a show during lunch because I like to be able to finish something.
Like I won't even start new episodes.
Like if like my lunch is an hour.
If if I watch something that's only like 45 minutes, I won't start something new.
Like okay.
Yeah, like the like so what I'll do is I'll watch like an episode like the 45 minutes
and for the remaining 15, I'll watch YouTube or whatever.
Like because those videos I'm just like, whatever.
Like I don't need to continue.
But yeah, so I've been watching a bunch of other shows.
I oh, I started watching Twisted Metal.
Oh, Anthony McEwan.
Yeah.
How's that?
Yeah.
It's actually really good.
It is so funny.
Like it is a hell of a time.
And I didn't know this.
Thomas Hayden Church is in it.
No shit.
Yeah.
And I was like, dude, like this is a freaking crazy story.
Like how like what's the deal with like I was trying to think of like what the deal was
with the with the game.
So I did some research on the game.
The game is as as simple as you can freaking get.
It is driving around with with cars and guns and shooting each other.
Like that's all the game is.
So they were able to create a story from scratch and impressive.
It's a killer story.
And then they were able to create.
I want to say he's an original character with this character Sweet Tooth, who he.
Someone is playing his like the the form.
But Will Arnett does the voice.
Oh, he's done.
His voice is Joker level, like freaking.
Oh, sure.
It is so good.
Like he has like a maniacal laugh and everything.
Like it is Borderland Joker and I love it.
Damn.
And yes, it's freaking awesome.
And the mask, bro, you look up the the sweet to art like the twisted metal sweet
tooth mask.
Like it is nuts, bro.
Damn, that's terrifying.
Yeah.
And what I love about the show is like they don't take his mask off.
So he's in the mask, like at least so far, like I'm only five or six episodes in.
He hasn't taken the mask off yet.
I'm hoping he doesn't.
But yeah, so he hasn't taken the mask off.
And the the way that they shoot the scenes, his like you rarely, rarely ever see his eyes.
OK, I like it is just like it's just darkness.
So like it's so good.
And it's the funniest shit, too, because like Anthony Mack.
Anthony Mackie is hilarious in this.
Stephanie Beatrice is freaking fantastic in this, too.
And she it throws me off every time I hear her talking a normal voice
in her normal voice, because it is so like.
Peppy and cheery.
So when she's talking, I'm just like, what the shit the hell are you?
Yeah, because I'm so used to seeing her from like Brooklyn Nine Nine, where she's so monotone.
Yeah.
And it's a it's a great time.
It is a great time of a show.
But so for everyone. Yeah.
So I'm Peacock right now.
Highly recommend.
It is just kind of like brainless action, which is perfect for lunchtime.
Yeah. There you go. Hell, yeah.
Yeah. And the episodes are fairly short.
I think they're around 45 minutes.
OK, that's not bad. Yeah.
I like a little bit longer form, but.
Still really good.
So, yeah, other than the list.
Yeah, other than that, I haven't been watching.
Very much like I've been watching the newest season of The Bad Batch.
I watched the Netflix one piece, which I really liked the live action one,
for those of you wondering, not the the anime, the anime.
They have a they have a specific cut.
Like someone went through and cut a lot of the fluff out of the show
because there's like over a thousand episodes of it.
And so somewhat. Yeah.
So someone went in and said, all right, here's a main storyline.
And they cut it down as much as they could.
Like, again, cutting out the fluff.
And they're like, all right, here you go.
And so it's like this storyline you could watch.
And it's like an hour and a half.
They have some storylines that are longer than that.
So it's like closer to like four hours.
But they have it cut up into little like important pieces.
So I'm like, I could do that.
And I with how much I enjoyed the show, I am willing to give.
Those cuts a shot, but other than that, I haven't been watching the whole hell of a lot.
I mean, minus those two movies, all I've been trying to do is get through the rest
of the office on my second rewatch.
So that's what I'm doing.
I'm on the frickin I'm at the end of season seven and I'm not ready to say goodbye to Michael Scott again.
So that's going to be hard.
Oh, man.
Because as we all know, it kind of went a little downhill after that.
Well, you would know I haven't watched the office all the way through.
Oh, shit, my bad. I didn't mean to spoil it.
No, I. I've never like I've watched bits and pieces of the office and I find it funny.
I did try to start it from the first season.
I made it halfway through and I was like, I can't.
Yeah, you have to push through season one, dude.
I know season one is a hard watch, but I promise you it gets better season two and beyond.
I promise you, like, honestly, every rewatch, I'm going to be honest.
I mean, this is on my second rewatch, but I completely skipped the first season.
Do you really?
Yeah, because I mean, I remember what happens, but it's just so hard to watch it.
Like on your first watch, you kind of have to do like really get to know the characters.
But like Michael Scott, Steve Carell's character, they do a complete 180 when it comes to him
from season two and beyond.
He is he is not he's completely different than what he is in season one.
Because I haven't even done a first watch of this show.
So it's like I've seen the bits and pieces that make me laugh.
And then I'm like, OK, well, this one was from season one.
And so there's like funny bits.
It's just that's all they really are.
It's just those bits.
And I'm like, I can't.
No, dude, I get it.
So it's just kind of like put a sour taste in my mouth with those shows.
I get that, dude.
If you can like stomach season one, which I forget how many episodes season one is like
it's worth it for season two and beyond.
I promise you.
I promise you, man.
Well, I'll trust you once like once I get around to actually like needing a new show
to watch like I'll I'll give it a chance.
OK.
But yeah.
All right.
Well, then what do you say we just jump into our headliner?
I say let's do it.
All right.
Well, before we jump into this week's headliner, Caleb, do you want to let people know how
we break down episode?
Wow.
Breakdown.
That's breakdown movies on this podcast.
I would love to.
If you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different categories
that we individually score to come to a final all bros letter grade.
The eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes, and then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up and spit through our algorithm and give us
a letter grade to compare this movies of a similar grade, as well as a percentage that
ranks these movies.
It's not quite as important, but it's still pretty fun to see where these will rank.
So if you have not seen the iron claw, we are going to spoil the entire movie for you
or roses specifically in our favorite segment that we like to call reading with Rose.
So just know I'm the asshole in this scenario.
Caleb is not.
Yeah.
So we're going to spoil this movie for you.
So this is one.
This one's interesting.
Can't like it's like, can the history really be spoiled?
That's fair.
I mean, I didn't know anything about the Von Erics.
So I didn't either.
I was actually curious about that because you grew up with like WWF WWE, right?
Yeah, but I don't think my dad ever introduced me to the Von Erics or at least from what
I remember.
Okay.
I mean, they seemed like they were maybe like in the eighties.
Yeah.
But like, I figured your dad would introduce you to like the nineties, two thousands wrestlers,
right?
Yeah.
I mean, you think that I remember would try to remember because, you know, those are like
some of the only good memories I have with my dad.
Sorry, was that too much?
No, it's your dirty laundry.
Hang it out if you want.
True.
Oh, shit.
But not just like the only ones I remember are like the classics, you know, Stone Cold,
Kane, The Undertaker, Rock, Brock Lesnar, Crispin Wa.
How long has Brock Lesnar been a wrestler?
I thought he was a freaking UFC fighter.
Maybe he is.
I don't know.
That money just gotten.
No, he's been doing it for a while.
Yeah.
No, I recognize him.
Has he really?
Yeah.
When did he enter?
I'm going to look that up too.
So when did Brock Lesnar debut in WWE?
There we go.
The first one.
2002.
So 2002.
When did he?
Has he always been?
Okay.
So UFC, his career is 2008 to 2011.
Okay.
And so how long did he do WWE?
Oh, so he did it.
Oh, no, that was his return.
WWE was from 2000 to 2004 or that was WWF.
Okay.
And then he took a break and then he came back to WWE 2012 to 2020.
And so he did UFC in 2008 to 2011 and then came back to WWE.
Okay.
That's confusing.
A little bit.
Because I was like, I've had that instance where people know him as like the WWE wrestler
and I'm like, no, Brock Lesnar, the UFC fighter.
And they're like, oh, like, I guess for like, something's getting miscommunicated.
So we have missed the thought that one was the other or whatever.
But that's cool.
Yeah.
Complicated career.
A little bit.
Oh, but anyway.
So yeah, yeah, we'll be posting the spoiler warning now.
So if you decide to listen beyond this point and anything spoiled for you, sorry, not sorry.
Exactly.
So with that, Rose, you want to take away?
Would love to.
Can we, excuse me?
Okay.
I think I'm good.
Okay.
Today we will.
You forgot to do your vocal exercises today.
Yeah, a little bit.
I just want to make sure that I'm not gonna have a cough attack during it.
Okay.
All right.
In 1979, the world class championship wrestling company WCCW is owned by retired professional
wrestler Fritz Von Erich, who once dreamed of winning the NWA world's heavyweight championship.
Fritz has five sons with his wife Doris from oldest to youngest, Jack Jr., who died as
a child, Kevin and David, who both wrestle in WCCW, Kerry, an aspiring discus thrower,
and Mike, an aspiring musician.
Kevin, the current Texas heavyweight champion, starts a relationship with a woman named Pam
and tells her about the Von Erich curse that killed Jack Jr. as a child, supposedly brought
on by Fritz changing his last name from Adkisson to his mother's, whose family had suffered
constant tragedy.
Kevin wins a non-title match against NWA.
You know what?
This was a problem.
Whenever they said NWA, all I could think of was straight out of Compton.
Fair enough.
All right.
Kevin wins a non-title match against NWA world heavyweight champion Harley Race by disqualification,
putting himself in the lead to challenge for the title.
However, Fritz is disappointed that Kevin took a long time to get up after a vertical
suplex directly on concrete, but is delighted by David displaying a natural talent for showmanship
while cutting a promo.
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott dashes Kerry's hopes of competition, and he moves back home
where Fritz presses him to also become a wrestler.
By 1983, Kevin, Kerry, and David defeat the Fabulous Freebirds to win the six-man tag
team championship, and Fritz volunteers David over Kevin to fight during NWA world heavyweight
champion Rick Flair.
Kevin and Pam get married, and he reveals at the wedding to an ill David that he will
soon be a father.
The week before his match against Flair, David dies of enteritis while touring in Japan.
Both Kevin and Kerry volunteer to fight Flair in his place, but Fritz lets a coin flip aside,
resulting in Kerry being the one to face Flair, beating him and winning the world heavyweight
championship.
Although Fritz is overjoyed, a despondent Kerry goes out for a motorcycle ride and loses
his right foot in an accident.
Fearing the curse, Kevin has his newborn son Ross, legally surnamed Atkisson.
Kevin begins training Mike, who badly injures his shoulder during a match and goes into
a toxic shock-induced coma during surgery.
Mike narrowly emerges from his coma with noticeable brain damage, but when Fritz presses him to
get back in the ring, he takes his own life, and a grief-stricken Kevin starts to distance
himself from Pam and Ross.
Fearing the curse will affect them too.
He nonetheless fights Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, but is disqualified
when he ignores the referee and grapples Flair with the signature Von Erich Iron Claw move
for too long.
Kerry returns to wrestling with a new prosthetic foot and works for the World Wrestling Federation,
now dwarfing WCCW in popularity, where he wins the Intercontinental Championship at
SummerSlam, while Fritz gives Kevin the task of running the WCCW as he focuses on life
with Pam, Ross, and newest son Marshall.
Kerry gives Fritz a new gun for Christmas, but becomes upset when he puts it away instead
of firing it, later calling Kevin and telling him that the curse's constant presence in
his declining career have made him consider suicide.
He hangs up before Kevin can learn his location.
After calling Fritz for help, but receiving none, Kevin arrives at Fritz's house the next
morning just in time to hear Kerry commit suicide.
Kevin arrives at Fritz's house the next morning just in time to hear Kerry commit suicide
with the gun and nearly strangles Fritz to death in a fit of rage.
Sitting with his brother's body, Kevin has a vision of his brothers in the afterlife.
Kerry leaves behind the coin that is sited.
He would face flair and reunites with Mike, now free to pursue his musical dreams.
David wearing the world title belt he had been chasing in life, and Jack Jr., whom he
meets for the first time since being a toddler.
Sometime later, Kevin sells WCCW to Jerry Jaret, despite his father's protests.
Doris gives up her housewife duties for her hobby of painting and divorcing Fritz, and
Pam becomes pregnant again.
Kevin weeps while watching his sons play football, telling them he misses having brothers.
They promise to be brothers to him, and he gets up and plays with them.
A textual epilogue reveals that the Vaughn-Erics were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in
2009, and that Kevin and Pam are still married and have bought a ranch in Hawaii where their
large family lives to this day, including their four children and 13 grandchildren.
Dude, this isn't going to come up in the episode at all, but the picture of him and his family,
someone sent one of his grandchildren flying.
Did you see that?
Oh yeah, I did.
Like damn.
Dude, that was all I could think about when that picture came up.
I was like, holy shit!
Like when I realized how high that kid was.
Anyway, for those of you that haven't seen it, yeah, there's like a picture of Kevin's
family and they're all like, typically, like you see that, like they're all kind of like
grouped together on the bottom of this picture.
And then up in like the top right hand corner is one of his, I'm assuming his grandchildren,
that is just up in the sky.
This dude was freaking yeeted.
Oh shit.
And I think what threw me off is all of the people, the bottom look normal.
No one looks like they had just tossed them up or anything.
They're just like all standing there smiling.
I'm like, holy shit.
All right, who's catching this kid?
Yeah.
Like that seems like something you don't take your eyes off of.
Yeah, right.
Oh, but yeah, I was like, holy shit, dude.
Just imagine you throw the kid up, you put your hands back by your side, they take the
picture.
You're like, shit, I blinked.
Oh shit.
It's like, dude, there's a story after this picture and I want it.
Please tell me that's in the bonus features.
That would be hilarious.
But yeah, like I said, it won't come up anywhere else.
I just found that so funny.
No, that was hilarious.
But yeah, dude, getting straight into it with the story.
There were some things that you brought up in the synopsis that I didn't catch.
Same here.
Like I didn't catch that it was like a fantasy or like an imagination thing that he was imagining
his brother, like Carrie, going to be with his other brothers.
Yeah, yeah, I thought that was just us seeing it from Carrie's perspective.
I did too.
And so yeah, that wasn't very clear.
But I mean, it's a beautiful scene.
Like that's what you're gonna be crying.
Dude, it freaking had me well enough, but they should have made it seem like it was
his like his daydream a bit better.
Yeah, I can definitely agree with you there.
And then what's her face there, their mom divorcing Fritz, that also was not very clear.
Yeah, no, same here.
Yeah, literally the last interaction you see between Doris and Fritz is her saying that
she didn't make anything for dinner.
He sits down, watches her paint.
And that's it.
Yeah, I was like, okay, you're just going to imply divorce.
And then it was funny because like, I was watching the credits and it said 824.
I didn't catch it at the beginning.
It was 824.
And so I was like, ah, there we go.
Yeah, because 824 makes some questionable editing decisions.
That's fair.
But damn, do they make some quality movies?
They do.
I have yet to see an 824 that I haven't liked.
I'm going to Google 824 films real quick just to make sure that that sounds right.
You're not talking out of your ass.
Yeah.
Sure, I'll stand by that.
I haven't seen an 824 film I haven't liked, but I have seen a lot that are questionable.
All right, fair.
Their new one Civil War looks really good.
Yeah.
Like I said, I think they just need some help with their production in terms of editing,
just to like clarify some of the things that they're trying to do.
Yeah, I look at 824.
So like Blumhouse does all the cheap horror films.
I feel 824 does everything else when it comes to genres with cheap filmmaking.
I'll give you that.
I will definitely give you that.
Yeah, but the story, I feel like the flow wasn't quite right with this one.
Don't get me wrong, the story was fantastic.
The overarching story was fantastic, but I think the big issues that I had came down
to the editing, and it just felt like everything was happening so freaking quick.
That's right.
It just moved quite fast with storytelling.
Another thing that I didn't notice, maybe you did, with Carrie, I feel it wasn't implied
at all about the Olympics being boycott.
Or am I losing my mind?
No, they did a little bit, because they show him running up to his coach and a bunch of
people running up to the coach, and then you see that one dude that just kind of throws
himself to the ground.
And then you see the family watching that presidential announcement, talking about the
boycotting of the Olympics.
How did I miss that?
I have no idea.
So they did touch on it a little bit, and then when he got home, they were like, okay,
that sucks, and then like, well, you need to be thinking about your future.
And I'm like, professional wrestling?
You know they have an Olympics in another four years, right?
Start training now for that, not for wrestling, but whatever.
Yeah, but I don't think they settled on that or kind of let that sit very long.
They let too much stuff skate by, like when it came to Kerry's story, maybe even Mike's.
I think Mike's could have been expanded upon a little bit too.
He's the brother that definitely got the least amount of attention.
Even with your synopsis, it explained it so much better that it was Fritz pushing him
back into wrestling that made him go off the deep end.
I thought it was that he couldn't play his music anymore, and that's what was the final
straw for him.
Honestly I know this is based off a true story, but I feel that would have made more sense.
A little bit.
There were so many things that were just kind of left like, okay, wait, what?
That you need to explain to you after the fact.
That doesn't fly by me very well.
That's fair.
I will say though, each death of each brother was handled very, very well.
I think David's could have been a little bit better, maybe?
That's fair.
What sucks is Kerry's death unfortunately got spoiled for me, so I knew he committed
suicide, but I had no idea that two of the other brothers had passed as well.
When they freaking say, oh, David passed while he was in Japan, I'm like, wait, what?
After the fact it makes sense without him throwing up blood and just how sick it's implied
that he is, it makes sense.
It's still really sad what these brothers go through, and the fact that two of them
were drawn to suicide of a way to just escape the weight and burden that their father had
placed on their shoulders freaking just kills you inside.
Yeah.
That was a really tough pill to swallow.
It's heartbreaking, just heartbreaking.
In that aspect, I think the film did really well.
The emotional hits, you feel those.
100%.
Yeah, like you're supposed to.
I think that was a combination of how well they put the story together.
Like I said, there were issues.
I think editing issues, if you would have removed all of those, I would probably be
in the mid... I won't say mid.
I'd probably be in the low 90s with the story, but with the editing issues and just how hard
it was to track certain things, I'm probably going to end up putting this around 85.
That's fair.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to agree with you because there were moments throughout that
I actually had to rewind a couple times just to make sure that I understood everything
that was said and I could understand where the story was going from there.
Same here.
I actually had to turn on subtitles a few minutes into the movie because they talk with
a very thick accent.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, nowadays, dude, I can't watch a movie without subtitles.
Same here, unless it's one I've seen a lot and it's really loud.
It needs to be deafening loud before I'll even consider turning the subtitles off.
No, yeah, that's fair.
I think with all that, I think I'm just going to be a little higher than you at an 87.
Fair enough.
All right, moving on over to writing.
Okay, because the mom did it too.
The freaking... the way that the parents treated their children in this movie, like,
oh my God, when they would try to come to them with a problem that didn't involve wrestling,
they're just like, go talk to your brothers, I don't have time for this.
That's what they're here for.
I'm like, no, that's what you're supposed to be here for.
Yeah, I'm like, heaven forbid you talk to your children.
Yeah, heaven forbid you have to be an actual freaking parent.
I know, but they weren't betting a thousand on that end whatsoever.
I do understand to a certain extent feeling like you couldn't go to one parent versus
the other.
When Fritz was being really harsh on Mike and Kevin's trying to get him to back off,
that's something... yeah, you need someone that can talk to that person that way to go
and do that.
That's not a father-son chat.
That's a mother-wife chat or a husband-wife chat.
But I don't know.
I think that they were able to capture the essence of brotherhood fairly well on some
stuff.
Others, I'm like, no.
I'm trying to think of an instance... oh, okay.
When they were at the Mike's gig and Kevin makes that comment like, look at my beautiful
brothers, I'm like, that's a weird thing to say.
I've never once thought that.
I'm like, listen, I love my brothers to death, but in that instance, if I wanted to show
that I was just having a moment of bliss and just enjoying being a brother, maybe it's
just because I'm an asshole, but it doesn't come out, look at my beautiful brothers.
I'm just going to be like, look at this loser.
That is the most love that I feel I can show.
That's the best way for me to show my love to my brothers.
Just be like, look at this asshole.
I guess that showcases every brotherly love is different.
I will admit, yeah, that was a little too much, but to them, that's how they show their
love and appreciation for each other.
I can't really knock them for showcasing that way because dude, I'd be the same way with
you.
Say you were in your moment and I want to be like, yeah, look at this jackass.
Dude, I get it.
Yeah, exactly.
If I'm being nice to you, you know something serious is going on.
It's just like, hey, I know that you're having a hard time right now.
I'll have the difficult conversations and stuff with my brothers, but it's just trying
to think of the best way to describe this.
I would trust my brothers and you with my life, but if they ask me to like, hey, come
here, I'm going to be real suspicious.
You mean?
Maybe not you, but if Coy and Bronson were to be like, hey, come here, why?
They know the deal.
They do the same thing to me.
If I suspiciously or just randomly was like, hey, come here, why?
Just come here.
Oh, you're going to hit me.
If I like again, I would trust them with my life.
It's like I just wouldn't trust them with the well-being of my arm.
Have you seen those videos where it's just like, hey, I'm really sick.
I need a kidney.
Oh my gosh, let's go get tested.
I'll absolutely give you my kidney.
And it's just like, hey, can I have an Oreo?
No, get your own.
That's what being a brother is like.
I think they were able to capture that essence really well other than them showing love for
each other.
That felt weird, but that might be a me problem.
I'm the same way.
I've never had blood brother, Caleb is the closest thing I've ever had to a brother.
I mean, he is my brother, but you know what I mean?
Honestly, even with my sister, I don't even know if I'd be that way with her.
I feel like I'd probably be the same.
I feel like, wow, look at this asshole too.
Because yeah, I'll call my sister that sometimes, but I mean it out of love.
Yeah, it always meant with love.
But yeah, I think they showed the encouragement really well.
Like when Fritz announced that David was going to get his shot at the title and what he would
have to do with the regiment before they got to Japan and he came home with the title.
I liked that Kerry got up and was like, that's freaking awesome, man.
And giving him that encouragement.
And even though it killed Kevin, he was there when it was Kerry's turn.
And so I liked all of that.
I felt like that was very true to form and just the goofing off, the fighting between
them was really well done.
I'm thinking of the scene where Kerry's trying to get back in the ring and he's training
with Kevin and Kevin knocks his ass to the ground and he's just like, you want this,
get back up.
You want this, get back up.
He's just like, and just gives his arm and defeat and he's like, yeah, that's what I
thought.
Like that, a very brotherly thing to do.
I love, I think it's toward the beginning, but it's when it's Kevin, Mike and David on
the truck and Mike's just like, oh, you know, can we go get hamburgers?
Oh, mom's got a dinner at the house.
Well, you know, Kerry would take me for hamburgers.
That's how I freaking guilt trips.
I love that shit.
That is absolutely played very well.
Yeah.
That happens a lot.
I remember Bronson doing that to me a few times where I'd pick him up in the car and
we'd be driving and he's like, oh, hey, we should stop and get a drink.
And I'm like, like, no, like we need to go home.
And he's like, oh, didn't realize you were lame.
I'm like, I'm not lame.
There we go and get a drink.
That's funny.
Yeah, it was that and his infamous, uh, or just to get me to do stupid shit, like when
he'd say no balls.
I'd be like, oh, I got balls.
Oh, shit.
That was infamous.
We would do that to each other.
I think we went and picked up a plywood for my dad at Lowe's and I laid it out on, on
top of the carts.
Yeah.
So we were pushing it and Bronson was helping me or whatever and he was just mouthing off
and I was like, I'm like, hey, why don't you get up on top of the sheet and act like you're
riding on a magic carpet?
And he's like, I'm not doing that.
Like, like people are going to like look and laugh at me and I'm like, all right, no balls.
Oh, I got balls.
Then he jumped on and he was like laying down on it and like in poses like he went
all out on it.
Why is it that that's all it takes for guys to jump into a dare or some shit like, oh
yeah, you ain't got no balls.
You ain't got no none of that shit.
I was like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, well, no, I'm going to prove that shit.
Sorry, I'm going to prove that shit to you.
That's all it takes.
I know it just you like you get smacked in the pride and you're just like, yeah, well,
they call they call you like a bitch or a pussy.
Just that's what pushes the oh no, I ain't.
The hell's wrong with our species?
I know our egos are so fragile.
True, true that.
But I think like I said, I did.
I really like the encouragement that was shown between the brothers.
Like when it came to do it, like being at Mike's show and then just like cheering him on,
like I thought that was really, really fun to watch.
The rest of the dialogue, I felt fairly genuine, like really genuine.
But it did.
I think the only one I didn't really buy 100% was Fritz.
That's fair.
He was he was definitely the stereo.
I mean, I'm sure I'm sure this is how he was in real life.
He's definitely the stereotypical pushes his son to be better than him, but does it in
the wrong way.
Yeah, very much so.
So I I liked it, but I think they went a little too exposition heavy in his dialogue.
And so it kind of like pulled me out of it a little bit.
I was like, OK, like I feel like there's some things that he could have explained less.
Yeah, because he was I think they were trying to give a lot of exposition with his with
his dialogue.
And so it felt very just like, OK, like I feel like your son who was raised to or been
in this wrestling thing for what I'm assuming is a significant amount of time would know
this.
Yeah, it's just.
I think maybe you introduce Pam a little earlier.
I mean, obviously you kind of you follow the story or the real story a little bit, but
I think you could have just included Pam a little bit more made her the exposition person
like that gets all that.
I forget what I know there's a term for that, like the person that we follow that gets that
we know as much about the story as this person.
Oh, yeah.
I forget what that is, too.
But I think that should have been like that kind of talk should have been aimed more towards
Pam since she didn't quite know about the wrestling world.
Yeah, I can definitely agree with that.
Yeah.
But yeah, other than that, I mean, the dialogue felt very natural, fair, like really good.
I'm not too much higher than my story score, though.
So I might be like 86.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I'm going to be the same as you just one point higher, so I'll be an 88.
All right.
Moving on over to acting.
Starting off, we have Zac Efron, who plays Kevin Von Erich, Jeremy Allen White, who played
Carrie, Harrison Dickinson, who played David, Holt McAloney.
I think so.
Holt McAloney, who played Fritz Von Erich, Stanley Simons, who plays Mike Von Erich, Mara
Tierney, who played Doris Von Erich, their mother, Lily James, who played Pam.
Oh, and that's it.
So yeah, I am this isn't a very difficult top three for me.
Wait, it is or isn't?
Isn't.
Okay.
So I think number one, given it's Zac Efron.
He hailed this role.
Yeah.
Like holy shit.
If people still think that he can't act, watch this movie and you will be on the Zac Efron
train.
Oh, yeah.
Like, I think he's a better dramatic actor than he is comedic.
I can agree with that.
Like his performance, I mean, he did okay in Ricky Stannicky, but he just he dominated
it with this film.
And I hope that this movie qualifies for an Oscar because I think that was it was borderline
Oscar worthy.
My number two, on the other hand.
Gosh, this one's a little tougher.
I think I might give this to Jeremy Allen White.
I really liked the character of Carrie.
It's understandable how he ended up where he was at.
I think like there was a lot of shit that was just kind of going on in his life that
would have been really difficult to deal with because not only is he dealing with the
loss of his brother, he has to live with taking the title from him and just like dealing with
that.
So it and then when he loses his leg and just is trying to come back up into the world,
seeing his struggle with the prosthetic foot was it was good.
It was really good.
I haven't seen him in pretty much anything that I haven't enjoyed his performance significantly.
Did you ever watch the bear on Hulu?
No, unfortunately not.
I've seen him in shameless though.
He's phenomenal in that show.
I wanted to watch the bear.
Yeah, I would recommend that show very highly because he
his performance is killer.
It also gives you a decent chance to look at the guy who's going to be playing Ben Grimm.
He'll be in that show too.
Nice.
But yeah, he freaking kills in that show.
Jamie Lee Curtis is in it a little bit too.
Oh, hell yeah.
Okay.
So if that sells a little bit more.
Oh, 100% OG scream queen.
Of course.
Yeah, but I enjoyed his performance a lot.
My number three and this is where it's hard because I feel like it'd be a coin flip between
Jeremy Allen White and Lily James.
I don't know if she is the popular choice on here.
I loved how she handled the... first off, just how she met with Kevin.
The introduction and everything and he basically like spelling it out for him.
I'm like...
Dude, that was...
It was so awkward to watch, but I loved it.
It was, but in a super nice way.
Yeah.
And there were just so many scenes...
I freaking love her.
She's so... such a good actress.
And I think she sold that just the tough southern woman really well.
And I appreciated that performance, especially as things got more difficult in their life.
Like how she went and handled Doris when Doris was just having a breakdown about her dress.
And she's just like, yeah, they don't care.
And just all that good stuff.
I liked it a lot.
And I liked how the portrayal of how she reacted to Mike's death.
Because I think she had a freaking sweet spot for Mike.
Yeah, I can definitely agree with that.
So she sold it so freaking well.
Like I loved her in this.
So what's your top three look like?
It's the exact same, dude.
Is it really?
Yeah.
Anything you want to add or?
No, dude.
Cause you freaking nailed it with all three.
I got nothing else to say.
The entire cast is great.
Honestly, everyone plays their part well.
But these are definitely the three standouts.
Yeah.
I would give an honorable mention to Holt McAloney though.
Just because of the scene where he was talking about how all of his sons are going to hold
the championship title.
That whole bit of dialogue was great.
Yeah, that's fair.
I will give an honorable mention as well.
As for the scene after Kevin wins from disqualification from, forget his name, but literally the monologue
that David says about him and his brothers wanting a rematch.
Just freaking so powerful.
And I freaking loved it.
And Harris just delivered it so perfectly.
So definitely got to give Harris Dickinson some props for his acting in this one.
Oh yeah.
Dude, I didn't really grow up on wrestling because my dad was very much of the mindset
like, oh, it's fake.
That makes it fun.
I think what I've struggled with movies and shows like this is when they cheer about winning.
It's just like you knew going in that you were going to win though.
Because then it will cut.
The next scene will be them in the locker room being like, dude, you sold that so well.
That was amazing.
I really believed you.
Yeah, I know.
I understand putting on the performance and everything, but it's just like you knew that
was going to happen.
You knew the outcome and what the hell.
So I think that's where I'm like, I don't know about the whole wrestling thing.
I think maybe it's just my dad coming out in me, but it's just like, I don't get it.
You knew going in you were going to win and still you seem super pumped up about it.
Yeah.
It almost feels like the congratulations should come before the match.
You're not wrong.
It feels so weird.
I had the same issue with the show The Rock did about himself, like Young Rock.
Oh yeah.
That felt very odd.
Anytime that they would discuss.
Every wrestling movie I feel has to deal with this whole, oh, it's fake thing.
Because The Rock dealt with it in his show.
I remember them talking about it being fake in fighting with family.
And then they dealt with this in this.
I feel like everyone has to deal with the, oh, this is fake shit.
But yeah, I did really like his performance.
He really sold it.
So what are you sitting with acting?
Just because I feel everyone is so strong.
Acting.
I think I'm going to be at a 93.
I don't know if I've quite cracked the 90s, but I am still fairly high.
I think I'm sitting around like 89.
All right.
Next up we got character development.
You know what I forgot to do?
I forgot to turn off the reading with Rosine.
Oh.
Nope.
Oops.
I didn't even notice that.
This one's hard because I mean it is based off of real life.
Yeah.
Like, what did you think overall?
I think story overall is really not story.
I'm sorry.
The character already covered that Rose.
We know what you sorry.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
I think the character development is actually like super strong.
Yeah.
You got a point.
You're basing this off real life.
So it's kind of hard to be critical because you're just like, how do you be critical on
a true story?
But I feel the because I'm assuming we're doing this on Kevin.
Yeah.
He's got the definite focus of this film.
Okay.
Seeing his arc throughout is like he has so many highs and lows and it's both very encouraging
but also very heartbreaking because you see him move up the ranks in wrestling but then
you also have to see him go through so much loss with his brothers.
Like seeing like I can't imagine losing not only one brother to a disease or just health
in general but two to suicide.
That is just freaking that's just a gut punch.
And I feel that it's handled very, very well.
And I would hope that this is exactly how it happened.
Just like, yeah, just seeing his journey throughout it's encouraging, it's heartbreaking.
And when you get to the ending with him not having any of his brothers left in that scene
with his kids, his sons, man, we'll be your brother's dad.
It's such a heartfelt scene.
And just I think it's a very good character arc on to say it throughout.
You get very good character development for Kevin.
Yeah.
That's a great arc.
And it's just it was heartbreaking watching everything Mike went through.
Like, because it's like I think Mike's was especially heartbreaking because you get like
you know that wrestling isn't his passion at all.
Like it was music, but it's he didn't really have a say in the matter.
And it was rough.
I don't think like any of them really had a say other than Kerry, but his was taken
away from him.
And so his father immediately threw him into what like the family business.
And I think what sucked, too, is like in watching Kevin kind of see that like the discussion
between his father and and Kerry was when he was saying, oh, I wouldn't wish wrestling
on anyone or on any of my boys.
And I'm like, but you push them all into it, dude.
Exactly.
Like you got screwed up or you felt like you got screwed out of an opportunity and now you're
making it everyone's problem.
Yeah.
So that was sad.
What it comes down to.
It was just it was super sad.
Yeah, it was.
But yeah, the the breakdown that he has in front of his kids or Kevin does that scene
wrecked me.
It was so like because you know, like I think what was what was a bummer is you is you knew
what everyone's dream was.
Yeah.
Like David, I think, was the only one that wanted to be a professional wrestler.
Yeah, when all was said and done, it was like David wanted the the title.
Kevin wanted just to live somewhere with his brothers.
Like live on a big old open ranch with his brothers.
Kerry wanted to be an Olympian and Mike wanted to be a musician and none of them got that.
Nope.
Yeah.
So sad.
I know.
Like it was it was heartbreaking to watch.
And you you know, like I think what this movie did really well is show what like you understand
where he's coming from with some of the shitty decisions that he's making, like not sleeping
at home.
Yeah.
Because he doesn't want to bring the curse on to his his wife and kid.
So yeah, completely understandable.
Yeah.
Like so funny enough, Brielle came in around that scene like when Pam was calling Kevin
out on that and being like, we need you home.
And like he's talking about like spreading the curse and whatever.
And Brielle was like, well, that's freaking dumb.
Like curses aren't real and blah, blah, blah.
I'm like, you haven't seen the rest of this movie yet.
Like I would absolutely be on this bandwagon.
Like, he started off like not really buying it.
And then it's like the horrible thing after horrible thing happened.
And it's like, like, yeah, maybe a curse is happening.
Yeah.
Like fricking is rough, dude.
Yeah.
Fricking rough.
No, 100 percent.
So I am very much of the mindset that you understand where he's coming from, even with
the bad decisions.
Yes.
And I think that's very important.
Yeah, definitely.
But I like that you get to see his his life go in alternate direction when he actually
starts like not giving a flying shit what his dad thinks.
Yeah.
He goes and sells the business to be able to afford a house and everything.
Like I think like watching as a as a parent, I would if my child if I handed something
to my child, like a business and they were just drowning in it, like, yeah, freaking
sell it, bro.
Like, I don't like I don't want that for you.
But him or Fritz, he was just like, well, you better not fricking sell this or you're
not welcome in my house anymore.
And I'm like, damn, dude.
Yeah, seriously.
Like, that's some horseshit.
And I wish we would have gotten like a little bit of payoff for that scene where he's just
like, yeah, I don't care anymore.
Yeah.
So, yeah, the the arc here was was was rocking, even though I do feel like it was a bit of
one of those negative arcs, at least until it got to the end and then started rising
up a bit.
Yeah, definitely.
Because I there are some instances where I feel like we we didn't leave on the highest
note just because they they did like the epilogue of this and then they showed off what his
what he had accomplished.
Yeah.
And all that good stuff.
And I like that we got to see that.
I don't necessarily think that that's something we needed to see within the context of the
movie.
That's fair.
OK, I can agree with that.
Because we've had some other issues where it's like, oh, well, it ended and his arc wasn't
quite complete.
I feel like this is an instance where his arc wasn't complete.
But in terms of or with how the film was structured, it made sense.
And so I'm just being like, oh, and he lived happily ever after.
Like totally fine with that.
Yeah.
So where are you sitting with the character development?
I think I think I'm going to be at a solid 90 character development.
I am actually a little higher than you on this one, surprisingly.
Ninety two.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Next up, we got a facts.
Which this can this is stunt work.
And cinematography.
I thought this was great.
The stunt work here was rocking.
Yeah.
Like all of the wrestling scenes were fantastic.
Yeah.
Like I didn't see a single scene that like made me think twice about like, like, oh, that
looked fake.
Well, it's rough, too, because it's like I also know it's wrestling.
Yeah.
That's fair.
Like, I could tell, like, oh, yeah, that punched in land, but it's like also didn't need to.
Yeah.
I wonder how difficult it is to film like wrestling stunt work, because it's like, do
you want like how real do you want to make it look?
Yeah, that's true.
Like, because obviously you could make it look super real.
Or do you want to make it look fake?
Yeah, like, gosh, I would love to watch our talk with a choreographer about something
like that.
I think that'd be so interesting.
No, that would be.
I feel one of my favorite shots in this movie is when Kevin is he's in the ring.
And I think it's a black and white shot.
I might be wrong.
But he literally just keeps running back and forth between the ropes and just bouncing
off.
And he does it multiple times.
It's such a great scene to me.
And I feel like it gets more powerful each time.
Like to the point I'm just like, how the hell is he not broken these yet?
Like he's putting all his freaking strength and weight into that shit.
I hope that was like Zac Efron doing that.
I hope so too.
Because you're right.
The more hits that was landing and just the more that he was throwing himself against
those, the ring was crazy.
And like, have you ever like felt those, like the ropes?
No, huh?
Those are not like springy ropes.
No, they freaking hurt.
It feels like you're hitting a brick wall.
Like a stringed up brick wall.
Those don't move easily.
Shit.
So yeah, I think it was just conditioning stuff because it was like that and then he
was throwing himself on the ground or on the mats.
But yeah, super powerful scene.
And just some crazy stunt work too.
Like just the, I don't know the terms.
One downfall of not being raised, like no one wrestling, but like throwing himself from
the corner and like...
Dude, I don't remember these moves.
You don't remember them?
No.
I don't feel as bad then.
But whatever, a lot of those stuff like felt like they were landing hard.
And I think that's a big draw to wrestling.
It's just selling that work or that I guess stunt work.
Yeah, no, yeah, it's true.
So yeah, this is another really high category for me.
I might dock a little bit because of the, maybe some of the cinematography choices.
I will say, some of them worked.
Where it was like the pan, or not even the pan shot, where it was just a still shot of
them.
They were trying to look for Mike and then you just see them searching and then you see
them run off to a certain area.
Oh yeah.
That shot I think maybe was a little too far away.
That's fair.
Because it was just like, okay, what are they doing?
And then...
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, if I didn't have the subtitles on, I would have been screwed.
I would have been like, huh?
What?
How do you feel about the beginning being in black and white?
Felt out of tone.
I feel the same way.
I would have caught on that this is the Von Erich Brothers at a young age and this is
the dad in his prime.
You didn't need to have it in black and white showing, oh yeah, no, this is just showcasing
that it takes place before we're introduced to them in the present day or in their present
day.
I just chalked that up to an A24 decision.
Fair.
Yeah, that's fair.
I think they try to be...
I think my issue with A24 is they try to be a little bit more artistic than they need
to be.
Their stories are...
I think they need to work on story structure and not be so freaking artsy fartsy.
Yeah, that's fair.
If they can nail that down, I'm all on A24 train, but yeah, that scene doesn't bother
me too much because it's still really good.
Yeah, it's still a great team.
I think I'm going to be a couple points lower than my character development, so I'm going
to be at like a 90 for the effects.
I was toying with the idea of doing like 89, but it just felt a little low.
Yeah.
I think I'm going to match you.
All right, next up we got music.
I feel nothing really stands out.
Thank goodness they didn't have any pop songs or anything in this because it would have
taken you out of the movie.
I feel when the score needs to go hard, it goes hard.
It does well at the emotional moments.
It's nothing special, but for the moments that it needs to stand out when it comes to
a music score, I feel it does a good job.
Yeah.
I think the only song that really stood out for me, and I know the name of this freaking
song, but I can't spew it out, the song that Mike was listening to while Carrie was training,
and then that's the one that the three brothers came out to.
Yeah, I can't remember.
Yeah, that's the only song that I felt was utilized really well to hype up a scene.
Nothing else.
There was some more memorable tracks throughout this, but I don't think that those were used
to their fullest potential.
I will say I'm giving this movie a lot of credit for their use of silences.
Yes.
Definitely agree with that.
Yeah.
I think soundtrack alone, I think I would be at a six, but I think with how well the
silences were used, I think that warrants a point bump, so I'm going to give that a
seven.
I feel the same way.
All right.
Next up, we got costumes.
These were good.
It definitely didn't shock me, the type of stuff that they wore in the wrestling ring.
It wasn't anything like, because I've seen some WWE wrestlers wear some very extravagant
outfits.
They definitely wore some stuff to bring attention to themselves.
Definitely Zac Efron's yellow or orange fricking trunks.
But I feel none of it fell out of place.
It made sense.
I feel it was good.
It made sense for wrestling.
So honestly, I don't think I really had any problems with the costumes.
Yeah.
I mean, the outfits, nothing too crazy, but I think that was before WWE or just wrestling
in general got, there was more of a show behind it.
It wasn't just the wrestling.
I'm trying to think of any outfits.
The outfits that they wore or just the brothers wore were pretty basic, I'd say.
I'm not familiar with Ric Flair, but I do feel like maybe he could have been a little
bit more extravagant.
But I also, like I said, not super familiar with the character.
So do you know him?
I do.
I have seen him more extravagant than this growing up, but I still feel that it was on
his level.
It was on his level?
Okay.
Yeah.
This one's tough.
This one's like super tough.
This is someone, I think I could be at like a seven and a half, but we don't do halves.
I don't know.
Just personally, I'm at eight because growing up, just remembering the costumes for WWE,
even though this was before WWE, I guess WWF, because that's where it started, really took
off.
They weren't as extravagant as they are when I was a kid or even today.
But looking how Ric Flair's costume looked and just how the Von Erics looked, I feel
that they did a really good job showcasing what wrestlers wear to these events.
So I'm at an eight.
Yeah.
If we didn't round down, I would probably give this a seven, but I do think that it
deserves a little bit higher.
So yeah.
So like I said, I'd be at a seven and a half, which would end up rounding up to an eight,
like given your score.
So I'll also give it an eight so it doesn't get bumped down.
Okay, cool.
All right.
Last up, we got personal score.
Sorry.
You want this first or?
Okay.
You might want to go first because I'm about to have a cough attack.
Give me a minute.
Okay.
All right.
I am not well versed in the wrestling world.
And I don't think that that detracted from my enjoyment of this film too much.
There was definitely a lot of, I don't know, like filling in the gaps for what the wrestling
world looks like for me.
That made me just kind of be like, what?
But that's more of a judgment on the wrestling world than this film.
I think Zac Efron and everyone else in this cast were able to capture the essence of brotherhood
very well and the relationship that brothers have.
And I really appreciated that.
They did a lot well.
There were a lot of odd choices with this film in terms of like the editing and just
different shots that they had.
But they nailed the action sequences or just the stunt work that went behind this like
major major props to the stunt people on this film.
Like they did fantastic.
And then I would also say a slap on the wrist.
Never made us whoever's decision it was to show all of these guys in Tidy Whitey's way
too much.
But yeah, I enjoy this movie.
Definitely one that I would rewatch again.
I'd probably have to watch it with someone though.
I don't know if I could watch this again by myself.
Like this would be one that if someone had claimed like, oh, I've never seen Iron Claw.
I'd be like, oh, well, you want to sit down and watch it?
Like it'd be that scenario.
I don't know if I would come back and re-explore it.
But I did thoroughly enjoy the film.
It just it almost gives one and done vibes.
I would like to see someone else experience this.
So I am going to be giving this one an 84.
Okay, not bad.
Yeah, really everything that Caleb said.
This is this might be my favorite A24 film.
I'll say it actually probably is.
Just because the acting is incredible.
This story between these brothers is just it's you get you love seeing them succeed,
but then just all of the gut wrenching, heart wrenching, everything that they go through
is just it's hard to watch, but you can't take your eyes off of it.
And there were moments throughout that I was wiping away tears because it's just told so
well and it's hard to watch in some instances.
But just everything is done so well from the acting to the storytelling to the cinematography.
Yeah, just I have I had a really, really good time with this one.
And I definitely agree with Caleb.
It's kind of hard to go back and rewatch this movie.
Like I might have a hard time, but I definitely agree.
Like you have someone says, oh, yeah, you know, I haven't seen the Iron Claw.
Yeah, definitely.
Let's watch it together.
Come on.
So yeah, so personally, I think.
I think personally, I'm going to be at an.
Sorry, man, you usually don't struggle with these.
Yeah.
And I've been thinking about this.
I think I'm going to give an eighty eight.
Okay.
Pretty decent score.
All right.
So going through these categories, if it will.
Oh, did it update?
Hopefully.
Oh, I guess it did.
Usually the indicator like on on this, the algorithm is that it will show half points,
but I think everything rounded out to whole points.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So that that hasn't happened.
Yeah.
Very interesting.
All right.
Going through these scores real quick, starting off with story, we ended up averaging out
to an eighty six.
Then writing ended up getting one point higher, sitting at an eighty seven.
The acting is sitting at a very solid ninety one, which is tied with for the highest category
with character development that is also sitting at a ninety one.
The stunt work friggin dominated with this film, so it is sitting at a ninety.
Music is sitting at a seven out of ten.
The costumes are sitting at an eight out of ten and our personal score ended up averaging
out to an eighty six.
So with that, the final Albrose letter grade for the iron claw has come out to a B plus.
Yes, let's go.
Hell yeah.
Very, very good ranking with that one.
So let's see where it is sitting.
Oh, it's a sturdier like our cut off for an A minus is ninety percent.
This is sitting at an eighty seven percent.
OK, not bad.
I guess just flat out eighty seven.
Wow.
OK, damn.
Yeah.
So that puts it on the exact same level as nobody.
I can't remember what the Bob Erding, Odenkirk movie.
Oh, yeah.
OK, OK.
Yeah, I could totally agree with that.
I can get behind that.
All right.
Let's see.
Let's see what it's below first.
It is sitting below Halloween 1978.
Wow.
Yeah, dude.
Barely to.
It is point six point not even point six point zero six percent higher, not even point one
percent.
Wow.
Damn.
Yes.
It is also below psycho.
OK.
It is below the Willoughby's.
Oh, damn it.
Dude, the Willoughby's is the shit.
You can go to hell.
It is also below elemental.
All right.
OK.
It is below Detective Pikachu.
We were a little too high with that one.
You can go to hell.
And it is below freaky.
Yeah.
Feel the same way.
I'm still a little too high.
Bill, you had your chance to change the scores.
Yeah, I know.
Shut up.
All right.
Go in the opposite direction.
It is sitting above Nightmare Alley.
Fair.
That might be one that I kind of disagree with because I like Nightmare Alley a bit more.
Go to hell.
All right.
It is above frozen to.
OK.
Yeah, it is above Scream 2022.
I can agree with that.
It is above the Lego movie to definitely agree with that.
And it is above Black Adam.
Don't definitely agree with that.
Miles better than Black Adam.
Yeah.
Oh, but I think overall it has a pretty decent home.
I like that you disagreed with what is below more than what it is above.
Love when that happens.
Oh, shit.
All right.
Well, you got anything else you want to say about the ironclaw?
Nope.
OK.
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Next week, we will be breaking down the Emma Stone movie Poor Things.
So let's see if she deserved that Oscar.
I'm sure she did.
Emma Stone's amazing.
Yeah, I'm excited to talk about that one.
I'll reach out to DJ, see if he wants to talk about it, because he seemed like he was on
the fence about it.
Yeah, that would be awesome if he could join us.
We still got to see if he wants to join.
Are we wanting to actually reach out and see if he wants to do a fucking Rebel Moon part
two?
Oh, good question.
Because I think that premieres this week or next week on Netflix.
Oh, I'll ask him.
OK.
Sounds good.
I'll ask him, hey, do you want to do Rebel Moon part two or do you want to do Poor Things?
Oh, shit.
But anyway, until then, this has been the All Bros podcast.
I'm Jonathan.
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And we'll catch you guys next week.
So long.
I can't do that, dude.
You suck.
You do your shut up.
Kiss my ass.
Do your deuces and just get this shit over with.
Way to show your enthusiasm for the show.
I'm sorry.
All right.
Deuces.
And I'm gonna go blue because I think apparently, unfortunately, you'reirvana everything's