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And I'm Caleb.
And we are a couple of bros on a mission to give you guys the most detailed movie reviews
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Welcome to the All Bros.
This week on the podcast, we'll be talking about two movies coming to 4K this week.
One we are actually breaking down.
I'll let you guys guess which one.
Wink wink.
Like, they couldn't tell based off of the title of this episode.
No, no, no, no.
We got nothing for Through the Wall.
Really quickly though, Caleb, did you, because I forgot to ask you, did you watch the trailer
for the new Winnie the Pooh horror movie?
Yes.
Okay.
I know it's probably going to be shit, but I'm still excited.
Dude, you want to talk about that?
Sure.
Let's do it.
So, okay.
So I guess for Through the Wall, we're going to talk about the Winnie the Pooh horror film
trailer.
So we'll get to that.
And then after that, we'll be moving on to our headliner, which will be, I'm going to
spoil it.
I'm sorry, guys.
I know you guys wanted to guess, but our headliner will be our, jeez, our breakdown of Elvis.
Dude, what the hell?
So, Caleb, what do you say we get started?
Say let's do it.
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Alright, so getting into 4K spotlight.
The first movie up we have is the movie that we're reviewing this episode, Elvis.
So it is not getting any exclusives, but, and I do appreciate this a lot, every single
version of this has a different cover art, which I really appreciate.
So the 4K just has him, not just, has him in his white outfit, which I would say, shit,
did he wear this at the end of the movie?
I can't remember.
Or was it blue?
He wore one of these suits.
Okay.
Like, he wore, like, this was kind of the one where it was his first performance at
the International.
That yes, that's what it was.
Thank you.
So that's the 4K cover.
The Blu-ray cover is basically like the poster that was released for this movie where he's
in a black leather jacket.
Looks awesome.
Frickin' love this.
And even the frickin' DVD has a different cover artwork.
It's him, when I think we're like first introduced to him, where he's wearing a black shirt and
tie with a pink coat, suit coat.
Wasn't it pink?
Yeah, it was pink.
Okay.
So he's wearing that on the DVD cover.
And, you know, kudos to Warner Brothers for like having a different version of Elvis on
each of these releases, even though they're just bare bones, just regular releases.
I appreciate that they went one step ahead and made each one different.
Yeah, that's...
I really appreciate when they do shit like that.
Looking at you, Universal.
I'm surprised that they didn't do one where it's just like the buckle that they designed.
I feel if they would have done a steelbook, that would have been sick.
That would have been a really cool steelbook.
Especially if it was like embossed with all of the...
Oh, that would have been sick.
Well, just wishful thinking now.
Yep.
Anyway, moving on to Lightyear.
That is the next big release this week.
And so like Elvis, every single release of this movie has a different artwork, even if
it's just a bare bones Blu-ray and 4K release.
It feels like Disney is doing this a lot with their movies.
Some do, some don't.
But I do appreciate when they do.
So the regular Blu-ray of Lightyear just has like the...
I think it was just like the main poster where it's like all of the cast not walking into
battle but like I think it's like them looking up and then above them is a Zerg.
And then I think it's also like Zerg and Buzz fighting.
So kind of bland, but it's still cool.
And then the regular 4K release of this is...
I swear this was like a teaser poster for the movie.
It's just like a side profile of Buzz in his suit and everything with the helmet up.
Looks badass.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was like the teaser poster.
But that's so cool.
And then for a Disney Movie Club exclusive.
So since...
And I don't know why Disney does this.
So with Disney Movie Club, if you want like slip covers for just regular Blu-rays, this
is literally how you have to get them is through Disney Movie Club.
You have to order through them because the...
Yeah, literally the only thing about Disney Movie Club is you actually get the slip cover
for the regular Blu-ray because the version you'll find in stores does not come with a
slip cover.
And the slip cover is just Buzz standing looking out somewhere and then just holding
socks.
So kind of bland, but if you want a slip cover for Lightyear on Blu-ray, there you go.
That's the only way you're going to get it.
And then last but not least, we have a Best Buy...
Did I just say Besc Buy?
I sounded like it.
Wow.
We have a Best Buy exclusive 4K steelbook.
And God, I love this cover artwork.
I don't know if this was the main poster or another teaser poster, but it's...
Shit.
It's Buzz walking into...
Well, Buzz just walking on a runway...
I guess runway.
Still full suit, but he doesn't have his headpiece on.
He can actually see his hair.
Dude, that looks sick.
He doesn't have the helmet over.
Right?
It looks so cool.
I freaking love it.
And I'm looking at it right now.
The back art is...
So it's an image of the launch pad and it shows him taking off from the launch pad.
That looks incredible.
Oh shit, I haven't even...
Blu-ray.com never shows you the back and I hate it.
Yeah, I honestly just Googled Lightyear 4K and then chose the one...
And then just kind of was following along with you trying to figure out which ones you
were talking about.
And so when you were talking about the steelbook, I found the one for BestBuy.com.
It shows the inside artwork is when Buzz was taking off and then Sox is right next to him.
Which I feel like I could have done something different with that, but I mean, whatever.
Yeah, fair enough.
But yeah, like that back artwork is the shit.
Right?
Ugh, such a good...
This looks like a great steelbook.
But other than that, that's it for exclusives and just Lightyear in general.
I guess they're doing away, or at least for this movie...
Actually, wait, no, they're not doing it for Thor Love and Thunder either.
No, I guess, Target exclusive Digi...
It's not a Digi book anymore.
Digipack that comes with a booklet of behind the scenes shit.
I don't know if they're going to stop doing those now.
If they are, that kind of sucks because some of those...
Like, yeah, they're not as good as they used to be, but some of the information you found
in the books was kind of cool.
So if they are done with those, that is sad, but I guess I will.
But yeah, that's all I got for a 4K spotlight.
Caleb, do you have anything you want to say about Elvis or Lightyear?
Nope.
All right.
Well, then moving on to...
I almost said through the wall.
Wait, no, yeah, I am supposed to say...
Jeez Louise.
Okay, moving on to through the wall.
Then this was like spur of the moment.
We got our first official trailer for Winnie the Poo.
Winnie the Poo?
Oh my God.
Winnie the Poo, Blood and Honey.
I am.
Dude, I am so sorry.
Yeah, so first trailer for Winnie the Poo...
Oh my God.
I'm having a life, that's what I'm having.
Oh God.
Okay, Winnie the Poo, Blood and Honey trailer.
That's what we got.
And like I said earlier, I'm sure it's probably going to be shit.
It's not going to be good probably.
But am I going to watch this shit day one?
Absolutely, because Winnie the Poo turned into a horror movie just sounds like a freaking
blast.
Dude, that sounds ridiculously fun.
And this trailer looked like shit.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
This will be one that we break down like without a freaking doubt.
Dude freaking when...
So Christopher Robin takes his, I believe fiance, right?
Or was it just his girlfriend?
It's I don't know.
It's someone, his significant other.
There we go.
Either or.
He takes her back to the Hundred Acre Woods to introduce her to his friends, which if
this is how the Hundred Acre Woods always looked, kid, you got to have a better imagination
because this place looked like shit.
Dude, like no joke.
Like it's just, it's interesting to think that like, I want to know what this kid's
imagination was.
Like is this his imagination?
Like this is like so there's so many things that like this could be.
Is this just like a couple of like swamp people that were pretending to be these animals for
this little kid?
Like is this his imagination come to life?
Like what is this?
Dude, that first one has got me thinking hard and I do not hate that idea.
But the swamp people?
Yeah.
Yeah, dude.
Like this is freaking like.
I know they're messing with my childhood and like the worst way because I was a huge Winnie
the Pooh fan as a kid.
Like Sam Her.
I feel you a little more, but.
Yeah, like I had such like such nostalgia for this.
And so this movie, I'm almost afraid for it to be good.
They killed Eeyore.
I know what the hell was up with that?
And dude, like that's what was what got me with this.
It's like when they were like, oh, Eeyore is dead.
And then they had like the skull.
I was just like, OK, so did they like eat him?
Yeah.
Like, obviously, these aren't like.
This isn't an actual bear and pig.
This is.
These big ass dudes in a mask.
I mean, but maybe with this movie, they have to say like, oh, no, these are actually supposed
to be a bear and a pig with the being such a low budget horror film.
If that's what they are trying to pull off, that is absolute horse shit.
My question, and I'm sure it's just because, you know, like Disney owns the rights to those
characters, but I really wonder if they are allowed to mention any of the other hundred
acre wood gang.
Like, are they allowed to mention?
I don't think they're allowed to mention Tigger.
I think I read somewhere that they're not allowed to mention Tigger.
That would be incorrect, though.
So Disney owns the rights to their rendition of the of Winnie the Pooh and the Hundred
Acre Woods characters.
OK, but everyone in the like from the original stories is free game and they had all of the
those characters.
So so Disney didn't add any characters to not that I'm aware of, like Kangaroo, Owl,
Rabbit, Piglet, Eeyore, even the Heffalumps and Woozles.
Yeah, I was going to ask, did they?
OK.
So with the Heffalumps and the Woozles, we did not ever in the books, we did not ever
see them.
OK.
Unlike the the Disney Winnie the Pooh.
Disney Winnie the Pooh did show us the Heffalumps and Woozles, but the books never did.
They did talk about them, but they never showed them.
OK.
So the so the Heffalumps and Woozles are like they are free game.
They just like you can't use any of the like you can't copy Disney's look for them at all.
So I think that's why they threw Winnie the Pooh in overalls.
And gave freaking Piglet actual like freaking horns.
Oh, like the tuff.
Yeah.
Dude, this movie looks like it's going to be nuts and I'm I'm absolutely here for it.
Yeah, I wonder if it's going to be on any streaming service or if it's only just going
to be straight to like Blu Ray and DVD.
Is it like really called Winnie the Pooh?
I thought it was just oh, shit, it is.
Yeah, dude, there's no way in hell that they they pull off that this is like an actual bear.
I guess we'll find when does this movie come out?
Does it say?
Um, let's see.
An official release date is yet to be announced.
Damn it.
Yeah.
It's only wrapped in May of 2022, so I would probably expect it to come out either late
later this year, maybe.
Or early next year, like possibly springtime.
OK, that's that would be my guess.
So I ridiculously excited for this.
Like I said, I just know it's going to be shit.
But like, even if it is shit, I'm going to love every single minute of it.
Yeah, but it's like, who knows, dude?
Like who knows, like what this is going to be?
Yeah.
For all we know, this could surprise the ever living hell out of us.
I mean, yeah, you got to imagine it being like one of our favorite movies of 2022.
Dude, that would be hilarious.
All right.
So the director, let's see what else he's done.
Oh my gosh, she's doing a Peter Pan horror movie.
Oh my god.
Yeah, it's Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare.
Oh my god, it sounds amazing.
Dude, he's never freaking done anything.
Hey, when those two properties became public domain, he's just like, yes, my time has come.
OK, but his so his freaking director credits are not giving me hope that this is going
to be good.
Oh shit.
So holy shit.
Each one of these is like more ridiculous than the last.
So all of his direct.
So he has one short that came out in 2014 that he has a director credit on.
And then he has three movies coming out in 2022 that are in post production right now.
He has two or three additional movies on top of that that are also in post production.
And then the Peter Pan Neverland Nightmare is filming right now.
So he has six movies in post production right now.
God damn.
Yeah.
And yeah, this is is not giving me hope for for good things.
So his first his first project is called Demonic Christmas Tree.
That sounds amazing.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Next is Firenado.
OK, that one sounds stupid.
The next is Sky Monster.
That sounds like such a generic name for a horror film.
Then Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey.
Then The Rise of the Loch Ness.
Oh God.
And then Dinosaur Prison.
OK, I'm down for that one.
OK, Dinosaur Prison and the Christmas Tree one.
I'm down.
I actually want to watch those.
Dude, this is going to be hilarious.
So I'm looking up what the like the synopsis for these movies.
So Sky Monster, a magnetic force pulls a small plane into the Bermuda Triangle.
Now a group of friends find themselves stalked by a beast dot dot dot in the clouds.
Jesus.
All right, let's do Firenado next.
God.
Holy shit.
An accountant for the mob has to escape a whirlwind of fire while he's chased for armed or chased
by armed robbers.
I can learn to write English, people.
All right.
Demonic Christmas Tree.
Oh, this one doesn't even have a plot.
Yeah, it's because all you need to know about the movie is the title is a demonic Christmas
Tree.
I know, but it's supposed to come out in October 2nd.
Freaking stupid.
All right, let's see what Rise of Loch Ness gives us.
OK, the Rise of Loch Ness.
Oh my gosh, dude, there's this person, mate or this actress, Mae Kelly.
She's literally in like all of these projects.
Oh, that's funny.
All right, let's see.
A group are sent to discover what happened to a recent lost ship only to discover the
horror that awaits them lurking below.
Dude, holy shit.
She is legit.
Like that actress is legitimately in every single one.
I just checked.
She's in freaking Winnie the Pooh, too.
Let's see.
Is she in Demonic Christmas Tree?
Yep.
So she's legitimately in every single one of these projects.
That's amazing.
Like is this his girlfriend or something?
Like.
Oh, it's like, you know, Rob Zombie with the Sherry Moon Zombie.
All right, let's see what Dinosaur Prison is.
Well, this is stupid.
What do you think?
Like if you were to.
If I were to tell you, hey, there's a movie called Dinosaur Prison, what's it about?
I would assume dinosaurs in today's day and age, but they're in prison.
It pretty much got it right on the head.
The description, a prison that has caged dinosaurs.
OK, my question, though, is.
How sturdy is that prison?
Because I feel you have to literally make the sturdiest prison you've like that has
ever been crafted in the world to hold a dinosaur.
Yeah, you would think.
This is as you can see, the Jurassic Park films still haven't gotten it down.
Shit, this is so frickin funny.
Yeah, he had.
So he wrote Dinosaur Prison, Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey and these other these two
other like random ass movies.
This movie is going to be horrible and I'm here for it.
Dude, I like six.
Oh, holy shit, like this dude's working on a bunch of shit.
So he has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one.
He has twenty one projects that he's currently working on that have not been released yet.
Damn.
That's ridiculous.
Very.
Yeah, I do not have high hopes for this movie anymore.
I have high hopes for a demonic Christmas tree.
That's what I'm most excited for.
Anyway, before this man ruins our childhood anymore, what do you say we get onto our headliner
of the evening?
I say let's do it.
All right.
So for this week's headliner, we'll be breaking down Elvis.
Caleb, would you like to let everybody know how we break down films 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 Albreos letter grade.
The 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 thrown into our algorithm and spit out
a letter grade for us to compare this movie to other movies.
So it gives us a schoolhouse grade and then gives us a percentage so we can figure out
the nitty gritty on where this ranks.
So if you have not seen Elvis, this is a very spoiler heavy review that we're about to do
and Rose is going to read off the synopsis for the entire film.
So if you have not seen it, please do yourself a favor and go check it out.
It is available on HBO Max or like we said, you can get on 4K when this releases.
Literally the day after.
And it's also available for digital purchase right now like on iTunes and Voodoo, shit
like that.
Yeah.
So if you listen past this point and anything is spoiled for you, it is your own damn fault.
Yeah.
Alright.
For how good I've been doing this episode so far, let's see how I do with reading with
Rose.
Here we go.
In 1997, Elvis Presley's former manager, Colonel Tom Parker is on his deathbed having suffered
a stroke.
Nursing a gambling addiction that has left him destitute, he looks back on how he first
met the future king of rock and roll.
Raised mostly by his dotting mother, Gladys, Elvis spent his childhood in the poorest parts
of Mississippi.
He finds an escape in the common book adventures of Captain Marvel Jr. and especially in song,
though once he moves with his parents to Memphis, he is ridiculed by his peers due to his fascination
with the African American music of Memphis's Beale Street.
At this time, Parker is a carnival huckster who fancies himself a modern day PT Barnum.
Although Parker is partnered, Parker is partnered.
Why is that funny to me?
I apologize for Rose, I assume he did drugs.
No, I'm just off my meds today, that's all it is.
I don't know why that's so funny.
It's not right?
Like I'm not losing, I know I'm losing my mind, but you don't find that funny too, right?
Not even a little bit.
Okay.
I think what's funny is your reaction towards it.
Fair enough.
Okay, so that word, with country singer Hank Snow, Parker immediately realizes Elvis' crossover
potential when he hears the white artist sounding black on the groundbreaking single, That's
Alright.
That night, he sees Elvis at a Louisiana Hayride performance, finding him a talented musician
with strong sex appeal.
Parker persuades Elvis to let him take exclusive control of his career.
I'm sorry.
Well we've done it, we broke Rose.
It's about damn time.
Okay.
So Elvis lets him take exclusive control of his career, beginning a meteoric ascent that
sees the Presley family lifted out of poverty.
The regional public is divided in their views of the singer.
Segregationist Southern Democrat Mississippi Senator Jim Eastland expresses the view that
Elvis' music will corrupt white children's stoking racial hostility.
Eastland calls Parker to an informal hearing.
During which she questions Parker about his mysterious past.
After Elvis' charged dance moves at a concert, the singer finds himself facing potential
legal trouble.
Parker persuades the government to draft Elvis into the US Army instead to avoid any legal
entanglements.
During his military service in West Germany, Elvis is devastated by his mother's alcoholism
induced death.
He only recovers when he meets Priscilla below.
After his discharge, he resumes his movie career and years later he marries Priscilla.
As the popular culture of the 1960s passes him by, Elvis' heart broken by the assassination
of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Although he wants to become more politically outspoken in his music, Parker only allows
him to release frivolous, feel-good songs.
Elvis eventually decides to revamp his image with an outside group of consultants redirecting
a corporate sponsored Christmas special television shoot into a career revival based on a return
to older songs and a direct acknowledgement of Elvis' use of sexuality and performance
via the wardrobe choice of an all-black leather performance outfit.
The film depicts the performance choices in the special, including the closing number
If I Can Dream, as being presented and perceived as acts of political commentary.
Corporate sponsors are infuriated and threaten litigation while Parker is disgusted, believing
Elvis to have been brainwashed by hippies.
Nevertheless, the show is a massive hit.
After the special, Elvis headlines at the largest showroom in Las Vegas, The International
Hotel, and then resumes concert tours.
Parker's control of Elvis' life becomes even stronger as he refuses Elvis' request
for a world tour and tricks him into signing a contract for a lengthy Las Vegas casino
residency.
Elvis discovers that Parker cannot travel abroad because he is a stateless illegal immigrant.
Having surrendered his original Dutch citizenship, he would not be able to return to America
after leaving.
When he attempts to fire Parker, the manager responds by stewing him for an impossible
large sum of money.
They argue and Parker convinces Elvis that the two need each other.
They rarely see each other afterward, though Parker continues in his role as manager.
Elvis' behavioral issues in Prescription Drug Edition overtake him, and a despondent Priscilla
divorces him in 1973, taking their daughter Lisa Marie with her.
Elvis continues a rigorous schedule of shows that leaves him increasingly exhausted.
Shortly before his death in 1977, Elvis expresses his greatest fear to Priscilla, that no one
will remember him after he is gone.
At one of his final shows, Elvis, now bloated and pale, sings Unchained Melody and ends
the performance with thunderous applause.
As he finishes his recollection, Colonel Parker dies, impoverished and alone, while Elvis
is beloved worldwide and is the best-selling solo artist in history.
Hell yeah.
God, I'm…
Yeah, that's my worst one so far.
That wasn't going to say anything, but it's up there.
But we got through it.
I think it's…
Apparently I have a child's mind tonight because I think it's the whole OPP situation.
Oh, good hell.
Oh, man.
Alright, so let's kick this off with getting into story.
This was an interesting tale.
At least the perspective was interesting.
Yeah, because I mean, hell, I really knew…
I know nothing about Elvis except for his songs, and I don't even know every single
song.
So the way that they handled his life, the way that they decided to tell the story, the
way that Baz Luhrmann decided to take on Elvis' story, captivating, honestly.
I was hooked from the first scene.
Yeah, they did a really, really good job of just capturing your attention and holding
it.
I would almost dare say that the movie kind of comes off as chaotic.
I think they hold you enough, keep you in the loop, so you kind of understand everything
that's going on as you go, but it just comes off as really chaotic.
That's fair considering that literally the opening scene is Elvis collapsing on the floor
as he's about to go on stage and his manager, Colonel…
Peterson, right?
Parker.
Parker, god damn it, sorry.
Colonel Parker literally saying, oh, whatever you have to do to get that boy on that stage
tonight no matter what, you have to inject in him, anything.
And just seeing that all go down and literally what the Colonel has turned Elvis into, even
though having no context, because I'm sure other people had context, but I had literally
none.
So seeing that and just seeing how he treated Elvis being the first scene, I'm just like,
oh my god, I'm really very interested to see how they got to this point and just how
he honestly grew as a dick throughout the movie.
Dude straight up.
I knew a little bit about Elvis, not a whole ton.
I probably didn't know a majority of the information that we were given in this movie,
but I knew a decent amount about Elvis, never knew about Tom Parker and that whole conundrum,
but I was under the impression that Elvis was a junkie.
Like yes, he turned into one, but it was so late into his career.
I thought he was a junkie throughout.
So when they made that switch or made that call where, oh, we're going to be doing this
super crazy tour, 15 cities, 15 days, and this is how you'll rest, we'll frickin drug
you up so you can sleep.
And then obviously that gets him frickin hooked and just ruins his life.
And so that's the turning point for me where I was just like, oh shit.
He was a solid standup guy a majority of his career.
I mean sure, he did some shady shit with his wife when he was going around kissing all
the girls in the audience.
Yeah, dude, when that happened I'm like, Priscilla, you got something to say about this?
Yeah I know, I was just like, dude, your wife is like right there.
What the shit are you doing?
Just imagine her just being like, no tongue, no tongue, that's all I care about.
Yeah I know, but shit.
Hell, I wouldn't even be okay with my husband just doing like one peck on the lips.
Yeah, right?
Like he was going full in.
Yeah I know.
That was like a full on kiss.
Dude straight up.
But I don't know about you, I really appreciated this perspective.
Like we kind of get Elvis' stories through the eyes of Tom Parker.
And it was so interesting the way that like, at least the way that it came off.
Like Tom Parker never seemed to be the type of person that was like accountable for his
actions or held accountable for his actions, right?
No I mean he, because like yeah, like at the ending of the movie when they're saying, you
know, like oh this is what happened to Tom Parker, I was really hoping it would say jail
time.
But then it literally just said, oh no, the whole Presley estate cut ties with him and
then he literally spent the rest of his days in Las Vegas spending all of his money on
slots and just dying slowly.
I'm just like, okay, at least he got sick and died.
I know that's really fucked up to say.
Guy deserved it though.
Like what he did to Elvis and like literally pushing him to his deathbed, I feel he should
have gotten jail time.
Not only for that, but for how much he screwed Elvis over.
Dude, straight up, taking 50%?
Yeah.
That is ridiculous.
Yeah.
Like holy shit.
And that's like taking into consideration that most managers and whatever only take
10.
Yeah, exactly.
Like he was getting paid five times more than any other manager.
Like that's ridiculous.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
And like, it's so sad too, because it kind of like opened and then slammed the door shut
on the potential Elvis story that we could have gotten.
Yeah that's true.
Like they were talking about like all this world tour stuff, all the stuff that he had
planned for this, like, hey, you got your own private jet to fly you to and from these
international events where they're willing to pay you millions of dollars for like a
single night and blah, blah, blah.
And just like, if he would have just cut ties with Parker, if he would have just cut those
freaking ties and we could have like gotten that part of Elvis, I think Elvis could have
been so much bigger than he was.
Like absolutely.
And that's like, he's freaking Elvis Presley.
Like that's saying a lot.
Yeah, instead of he's the king of rock and roll.
Yeah, like it's, it was so sad to see that.
It was freaking heartbreaking.
Yeah, really, dude, I was not expecting them because like how in the, the summary, it points
out that like towards the end of his career, like one of his last performances, you could
tell that he was like becoming like super bloated from all the medication he was on
and everything.
I did not expect when they actually like did that final show that they would actually show
after that like snippets of like the moments that they covered in this movie that were
actually caught on real life camera that are actually of Elvis Presley.
Holy shit, dude.
Like I must have blinked or something because when they started showing the footage of like
real Elvis, like I was caught off guard.
I mean, that just shows like how amazing performance Austin, Austin Butler did.
And of course, we'll talk about that and right and acting.
Yeah, dude, I was like, I looked away for like maybe a second to like to answer a question
Braille had.
And I look back and then it's like real Elvis.
And I'm just like, dude, the frickin like, did they just improve the makeup?
Like in between shots?
Dude, straight up.
I'm like, that looks like Elvis.
They when they looked, I'm like, oh shit, that is.
Like, oh, it's so good.
It was so frickin good.
You know, it's the only problem that I have with this movie.
What's that?
And this is this would, I guess, go into music to rubber neck and was not in this movie at
all.
What the hell?
Rubber neck and you never heard that Elvis song?
No.
Are you frickin serious?
Yeah, I'm like dead serious.
It goes like, stop looking.
Listen, baby, because it's my philosophy.
It's called rubber neck and baby and it's all right with me.
Yeah, I have no idea.
Dude, I'm flying to Georgia.
I'm going to kick.
I'm kicking your ass for not knowing this Elvis Presley song.
Dude, I frickin listen to Elvis all the like, I got to be like a huge fan of Elvis.
Like I listen to all of his shit.
I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, it's a no.
Yeah, rubber neck and it's a it's an Elvis Presley song.
Not very well known one.
Bullshit.
I feel a lot of people know this song.
All right, we're going to have to put a poll out on our social media.
How many people know rubber neck and because apparently, it does not think it's a popular
Presley song and I absolutely disagree.
Dude, there's I'd have to listen to it.
OK.
Actually, I'm going to pause real quick and listen to it just to see if I know the song.
So OK.
One second.
OK, I have never heard that song in my life.
Oh my God.
What?
OK, you have homework.
You have to listen to the whole song.
That is such a great Elvis song.
I can't believe you've never heard rubber neck in.
They never in my life.
Oh my God.
Shit.
Wow.
OK.
Anyway, get back into the story.
You think you know, a guy.
Yeah, you think.
Just kidding.
No, but.
I really and this is more like.
Actually it's more of a writing thing.
I'll bring it up when we get into writing.
It's just kind of has something to do with like Tom Parker.
OK, but.
I really.
I really liked Elvis's whole.
I mean, that just the. The way they went about like telling his story like they didn't start
out his story.
Like at the very beginning.
It was like true, which was really cool.
It was it only focused on the point in time where Tom Parker became a part of Elvis's
life.
Yeah, I mean, he does mention like this is all this is where he came from.
This is how he like grew up, but like literally it's only like a couple of minutes if that.
Yeah, so it's like obviously like the basic stuff that you learn about a person.
Yeah.
So I thought that was like incredibly interesting.
Like oh shit, like we're not getting like.
Mr. Nobody Elvis, we're getting like.
He's starting to gain his popularity Elvis.
And that was insane.
Like it was it was so cool to watch because I feel like with with most stories like with.
Like it's hard not to compare it to them, but like with Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman,
we get the backstory behind like where they came from and all this stuff.
And we did get that, but it was like later in the film.
And so it made it a little bit more more interesting.
So I think the way that they went about like telling us, like giving us that that context
was was really cool.
And like the way that they shared like the story of.
Like what happened with his his dad, like going to prison for.
I forget what it was like.
It was a check about.
Oh, yeah.
OK, so yeah, his dad wrote a bad check, went to prison.
And then when they when he got out, they just they struggled so bad they had to go into
like a black neighborhood.
And that's how he was introduced to this this lifestyle.
Well technically they will know they moved into the black neighborhood while his dad
was in prison.
That's why they had to, because like I'm assuming the dad was like the breadwinner.
And so his mom wasn't able to get that.
I guess his mom couldn't get a job or I don't know what exactly was happening.
But so yeah, that's why they had to move into a black neighborhood.
But yeah, like crazy interesting, like really interesting story.
And then the way that he got into music and like the things that he took from his his
childhood that just came back and like talking about Captain Marvel Jr. and the.
The Rock of Eternity.
Like freaking nuts, dude, like.
Oh.
Like one thing that I really liked, too, was the reveal.
I mean, we knew about it, kind of, but like just the.
When they revealed the shady shit that that Tom Parker was doing.
And like after he was like drugged out of his mind or passed out like right before the
show and then he came and.
Like while they were trying to wake him up and dunking his head in like the ice water,
how he was reflecting on all these like little hints about what was going on and like his
secret plans.
Like it is.
It is like fascinating.
And dude, like after if I had a time machine.
I would want to go like with basically like any of these these people like that we've
seen these these backstories for with like.
Freddie Mercury or Elton John or with Elvis, I want I would want to go to the show that
he did where he fired Tom Parker.
Yeah, that'd be amazing.
Like that audience was so uncomfortable.
It was hilarious.
Like they got this like amazing show and then he just loses his mind and everyone just like
dead silent, like, oh shit, like what do we do?
Like if I ever get my hands on the time machine, there's I'm pretty sure there's going to be
like a re like this movie is going to include one person in the back just like laughing
their ass off.
And that will be me.
You know, I respect it.
Oh, but.
Overall, super solid story like manages to keep your intention, your attention the entire
time like there was no moments where I felt like, oh, this is going on too long or this
is boring or whatever.
Yeah, no, none.
So what are you thinking for for writing our story?
I'm definitely in the 90s.
I just don't know if I'm in like the high 90s.
I'm going to say.
I'm going to go in 93.
I might go.
Actually, I was thinking I was going to go higher than you, but I think I might match
you.
So 93 is a solid score for this one.
I'm moving on over to writing.
So just the one thing that I wanted to address.
I really liked how they kind of made Tom Parker feel like someone who doesn't take accountability
for his actions.
They set that up throughout.
Right.
And then at the end, when he's explaining like what happened to Elvis and he's saying
you a lot, like talking to the audience and saying basically blaming the audience for
what they did, what we did to Elvis.
Like you did this.
Like you caused this.
Like it's your fault that you guys made him popular so I could take advantage of that.
Like it felt like he was blaming the viewer.
And I'm like, what?
Absolutely.
Like what a dick.
First of all, fuck you.
Exactly.
But I just love that little moment.
It just kind of made me reflect on his character even more.
He hasn't taken like he hasn't admitted to anything that he's done.
Yeah.
Yeah, he really hasn't.
God, yeah.
Such a dick.
Yeah.
Gosh, I did really like the dialogue that he was having or that Tom Parker was giving
us during the first performance that he saw of Elvis's and talking about like the sign
of a good performer is that they give you emotions or they give you feelings that you're
not sure you're supposed to like.
Yes, that was so cool.
That was crazy and just like the reaction that Elvis was getting from this group of
women.
Like he was driving them nuts.
And I'm just like, shit.
The way that they were diving on stage.
Frickin oh wow.
Yeah, no kidding.
In the frickin 40s too or 50s whenever the hell this took place.
I freaking love the one guy that's just like, is that a woman's undergarments that I see
on the stage right now?
Yeah, dude, that is that was so funny and seeing like frickin props to the extra women
that performed in this.
You sold that so well.
Every single one of you.
Yeah, like you could.
Yeah, there's no doubt that you could tell that they were reaching for that D. They were
reaching for that D.
Dude, I was talking to Brielle about it.
I'm like, dude, there has to be someone alive today.
Like someone's grandmother that frickin messed around with Elvis and is like taking it to
her grave.
I mean, considering that Priscilla Presley still alive.
Yeah, there has to be at least someone.
Yeah, right.
But oh, frickin.
Frickin nuts, dude.
Like, oh, it was so good.
And it was cool, too, because it's like I really appreciated the cinematography in that
moment because it just kind of showed or gave us like a really good reason why they were
getting that worked up over him.
Yeah.
And like they were they were just showing like showing like close ups of his legs, like
wiggling around and all of that.
And just like the.
Like when he was moving like his hips and everything, it's just like the close up shots
of that.
And then like just kind of going back and forth between that and the women's faces,
like really shines that light on like, OK, like, yeah.
Straight up.
Here's an interesting question for you.
So Brielle was asking me this after we watched Elvis.
Who do you think is our like modern day Elvis equivalent?
Like obviously, there's no one out there right now.
I feel or at least that I'm not aware of.
There's no one that's like up on the same level as Elvis.
But like, who would you say is like our our Elvis equivalent?
I don't even know.
Like is there like can you even come even close to being equivalent to Elvis?
That's like what I'm I was having a hard time answering that.
Like she was saying it was Harry Styles.
And it's not necessarily because like his music's good or anything.
It's just like how crazy women go over him.
And I'm like, I've seen a decent amount of like videos where that's true.
And I mean, Harry Styles is actually like a really nice guy for what he does to his
fans because like, have you seen like what he does for like the LGBTQ community?
I've not.
So if like he sees a fan like waving a pride flag, whether it be just like the regular
like main pride flag or like the lesbian flag, bisexual, asexual, transgender, any flag,
he'll reach down and grab it from them.
And he'll just be like, okay, once I put this over my head, you're officially out.
Are you sure you're cool with this?
Like he'll I think he says their name and everything.
And he'll like make a big huge deal about putting it over his head and like putting
on a big show about it.
I freaking love it.
That's cool.
Yeah, right.
I mean, shit, that is kind of very Elvis esque.
Yeah, like obviously something like that.
Yeah.
At least like modern day.
Yeah.
But yeah, like the way that he was like, like a very big, big advocate for like black rights
and everything and segregate anti segregation and all that other stuff.
I love seeing them explore that kind of stuff in this movie.
Yeah.
Like I never knew how much his roots like just dug into that lifestyle.
I didn't or not that lifestyle, the culture.
Yeah.
And they're just seeing like how hard the death of Martin Luther King Jr. hit him.
Just yeah, such powerful writing.
Yeah.
I mean, just incredible writing there.
Brielle kind of laughed at it, but I actually really liked the flashback to when he was
a kid and he hears the music going on in that church.
And he's like kind of getting to the middle of it and his friend goes to grab him and
like the pastor stops him and he's like, stop like he's with the spirit now.
Like while he's dancing and doing all that, that good stuff.
I didn't want to laugh because I felt like I was I was a jerk if I laughed.
I would have felt like a dick.
No, like I think it was kind of pulled off.
I think it was like delivered in a way to be a joke, but also not at the same time.
Like it's kind of a weird, a weird scene.
Because I mean, I can understand why Brielle laughed.
I get it because I mean, the kid's facial features and like the way he's moving his
hands.
I'm like, OK, I get it.
If you get into the music, I get it.
But like, do people really get into it like that?
That's what I was thinking, too.
I'm like, I've never once gotten into music like that.
Like maybe I'm just not like one with the spirit or anything.
Same here, apparently.
But I freaking loved it, dude.
Like I loved every second of that, like just showing where he got his inspiration from
and like the situations that he would get his inspiration from.
One thing that I didn't know from and it kind of like made me question it in this.
Elvis didn't write any of his songs.
All of his songs come from like the black culture, like the songs that he heard growing
up.
And so, like, yeah, so his like a lot of them, like some of them were written for him and
all this other stuff.
So he was never like a songwriter.
Like he was always just, he was just the voice bringing that to the world.
And so like hearing like the Hound Dog song and all of this other stuff, like the one
guy that I don't know who it was.
I'm trying to look at the cast list to see if I can figure out who the hell it was.
But the guy, so when he was talking with B.B. King and the guy that was playing on the piano
and everything and he was like, oh my gosh, like I love this song, I'd love to record
it and like the way B.B. King was just like, yeah, but if you recorded it, he like, you
would make like a buttload more money from it than this guy would.
And it's a song that I know Elvis didn't sing.
So it's just like he was very like, it felt like he was very conscious of that kind of
stuff.
Like he knew, okay, that's that person's song.
And like it felt like more like it didn't feel like he was stealing songs.
It felt that he was just taking these songs that he's heard before and bringing it to
the mass or to the masses.
So I really appreciated that, that it didn't feel like, oh, he's stealing or anything.
Overall, like the rest of the the dialogue was like really freaking good.
Agreed.
I wouldn't quite put it on the same level as like as the story.
That's why I was thinking it's a tad below.
Yeah.
Personally, I think I'm going to like a 91 with that one.
Yeah, I'm going to match you.
All right, moving on over to acting.
Honestly, the big two in this were Austin Butler, who played Elvis, and Tom Hanks, who
played Colonel Tom Parker.
A couple of the extras.
We had Olivia De Jong, who played Priscilla.
Helen Thompson, who played Gladys, who was Elvis's mother.
Richard Roxberg, who played Vernon, who was Elvis's father.
And then Kelvin Harrison Jr., who played BB King.
So with this one being like top two, like I'm pretty sure we're both going out.
Austin Butler for one.
Oh, yeah, there's no doubt.
Yeah.
And then Tom Hanks for two.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like that's the only important thing.
So you want to talk about Elvis, and I'll talk about Parker?
Yeah, what else can you say with Austin Butler except for perfection?
This guy embodies Elvis so well.
It's incredible.
He even pointed out an interview, he spent months just studying as many interviews, movies
that he could find on Elvis trying to get his impression down perfectly.
Because all of the music in this movie, it is actually sung by Austin Butler.
They did in post-production add a little bit of the real Elvis's lines in, a little bit
of his voice, but literally like 99% of the singing voice that you hear coming from Austin
Butler is actually his voice that is him singing as Elvis, which is just incredible because
it is so good.
I thought they did what they did with Rami Malek.
No, he didn't.
Yeah, no, he did not just lip sync.
Did he really sing all that?
Yep.
No freaking way.
Yeah, that is really Austin Butler.
I'm fact checking you.
That was amazing.
I swear I just read this in an interview 30 minutes before it was recorded.
With snippets of the real singer blended in later on.
Holy shit.
Dude.
Dude, the acting just went up astronomically for me.
Hell yeah.
Holy shit.
Incredible.
He got the voice down, he got the actual singing voice down, just everything.
I have nothing bad to say about Austin Butler as Elvis Presley.
I could literally go on for hours of how amazing this man is as Presley and just how he embodies
him.
He's incredible.
I would put him up with the ranks of how well Taron Egerton embodied.
Oh my God.
Elton John.
Elton John, thank you.
Rami Malek with Freddie Mercury.
Holy shit.
Amazing.
That's all I'm going to say.
Holy balls, dude.
That is awesome.
Right?
It's so cool.
Shit.
I want to hear the original songs where it's just him.
I want to hear them side by side.
I'm sure if you really listen closely, I'm sure you can tell a little bit of difference,
but barely.
Obviously, I freaking couldn't because I thought it was Elvis.
Oh God.
That's amazing.
Holy shit, dude.
That is...
Damn.
I was...
Oh my gosh.
I was legitimately at like maybe like a 92 for acting.
I'm in the high 90s now.
That was pure perfection.
Right?
Like oh damn.
Talking about Tom Hanks performance real quick as Colonel Tom Parker, it's so weird to see
Tom Hanks in the villain role.
Dude, straight up.
I was just about to comment on that.
I don't like it.
It's so interesting because you know what he's doing.
You know that he's being shady.
You know that he's basically screwing Elvis over.
But it's also like it's Tom Hanks.
So he does it in such a likable way.
Exactly.
It makes me wonder, was Tom Parker that likable?
He had to be, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, he had to be.
For what he was able to get away with, he had to be.
Like shit.
I had such like a weird like feelings about him or mixed like feelings about him because
I'm like okay was he just like...
Was he that nice to Elvis?
Like was he or was he just that like that charming?
Or was he just smart enough to like outsmart him?
Because when he's talking about like the oh the international tour like hey you could be
doing here freaking like just get a shit ton of money before you like take off across the
world and like so it like I know that that was like a trick to get Elvis into signing
with the international for so many years.
But it's like was that smarts or was that charm?
Like I really wish that I would have I would know.
I kind of want to do like more background on Tom Parker just to get an idea for who
he was and how well Tom makes portrayed him.
And for what he pulled off like it was it was great to see this and just the...
Tom Hanks does a really good...
What was it like a Dutch accent?
I think so.
I'm gonna look real quick see what...
Yeah just a bunch of quotes and stuff.
Not really any info on Tom Parker.
But yeah like his his accent was on point like never freaking wavered from that accent
like at all I felt.
And just master class.
And there wasn't a single extra in this movie that like messed it up for me.
Like everyone was just so perfectly cast.
Like freaking shout outs to Olivia De Jong about like who played Priscilla.
Like she played her role so freaking well.
Absolutely agree.
I mean considering that she didn't come into the movie until much later on absolutely agree.
Yeah like she like when she came in she came in with like a freaking power.
Oh yeah.
And it was again one of those things that was just another incredible performance to
watch.
And you could tell like you could feel the love and the sadness that she had when she
left Elvis.
Like she didn't...
You knew that she still loved him but just couldn't do that with him anymore.
And it freaking heartbreaking.
Seriously though.
But everyone freaking master class of performances.
Like honestly like if there's an extra that I have issues with he's so far down the list
it's not even worth bringing up.
Oh but.
Oh shit.
Yeah the whole singing thing like dude like I'll throw this into acting.
You like I don't think either of us brought this up.
You could freaking feel the effort that Austin Butler put into his singing performances.
Oh dude absolutely.
He got into them so hard and I loved it so much.
Yeah with how hard he was sweating.
Holy balls.
I wouldn't be...
I would have gotten a nice paycheck for this movie.
That's all I'm saying.
Yeah the effort that he put into this I would not have been surprised whatsoever if that
was like real sweat.
Dude straight up.
I mean he did incredible at just making you feel the weight of these performances and
just the power that Elvis had on stage.
Like it's when I think of like the all time greatest performers Freddie Mercury is like
number one because he could just command an audience.
But number two like I'm sitting there with freaking Elvis.
Like Elvis just had a way of performing with like all of the effort that he could possibly
muster.
Yeah seriously though.
Like hell even Tom Parker like his narration at the end the last time that he got to see
Elvis perform like when he was like sitting at the piano and having someone like hold
the mic for him because he could barely walk.
Like the way that he said he's just like yeah he could barely walk like he was not doing
well but when he sang he didn't lose anything.
Like it was just as good as any other performance that he's ever given.
And I'm like that that oh.
Like that alone was like super powerful.
Absolutely agree.
Honestly I'm in the high 90s for acting.
Yeah I'm like at 90.
I'm gonna go at 97.
I'm actually like right below you at 96.
Nice.
Alright next up we got character development which this one's a little tough to do.
Like you can't decide to do it either on Elvis or a girl or?
Yeah.
Like I feel I would do Elvis with SSME.
Yeah.
Like okay with Elvis you get to see like this like really good start of working with the
Colonel and kind of like going along with what the Colonel wants even like despite it
being against his mother's wishes.
And then once his mother dies it's just kind of like it just takes a dive where he's like
becoming so self or not self reliant on the Colonel.
And then the Colonel's just running every aspect of his life to a point where he becomes
unrecognizable to himself and then he works his way back up there.
And then he just again takes another freaking dive as soon as he starts getting into the
drugs and getting into the performances at the International and all that shit.
It's insane to see that like that wave.
And regardless of this being like if we were talking about this being like a good arc like
this is definitely one of those negative arcs but done well.
Yes I absolutely agree.
Like you just see like a steady decline of Elvis but they ended it on such like a bright
note in a way.
They did.
I mean even though unfortunately Elvis did die very young.
He died at was it 42?
47 I think.
Oh it's 47.
Yeah pretty sure like.
How old was Elvis when he died?
Oh I was wrong 42.
Okay so it was 42.
Damn you're so young.
No shit dude holy crap.
Like how old's Priscilla?
Is Priscilla older than him?
No she was younger.
She was younger?
Yeah.
Okay.
I think like they mentioned in the movie like they were like uh oh my god.
You know what I'm gonna look that up.
So if Elvis was alive today he would be 87 years old.
Really wow.
Okay so they're 10 so yeah they're 10 years apart.
Okay so she's like in her 70s late 70s?
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh freaking sad.
Yeah it really is but I mean like you pointed out it does end on a happier note with just
showing like how much of an impact Elvis had on his fans and how it literally I love how
they point out at the end that he is still the number one single he's the number one
solo selling record artist of all time.
I'm googling that right now to see if it's still number one.
Woo.
Yeah it goes Elvis, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elton, Rihanna.
Holy shit.
Wow that's awesome.
Yeah damn.
Go Rihanna.
Yeah number five like right with those four people above her.
Shit.
I mean Umbrella is a freaking jam.
I don't care what anyone tells me.
Really I'm surprised that she beat out Beyonce.
Oh you know fair enough.
Like damn.
Let's see if Beyonce even like makes this list.
She doesn't even make the list.
God damn.
Like okay so it's Elvis, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elton John, then Rihanna, Eminem,
Taylor Swift, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and then Celine Dion.
That is so cool that Eminem is on there.
That's awesome.
That's another weird one.
It's so weird like to think that Rihanna, Eminem, and Taylor Swift are on the same like
level like.
Because their music is just so different from each other.
Yeah dude but it's like not even freaking close.
Like Elvis and Michael Jackson are really close together so like one and two but then
it like drops a shit ton and likes the units sold.
So Madonna is at 340 million units right?
So she's number three.
Number two, Michael Jackson is at 1 billion units.
Holy shit.
And then Elvis is at 1.5 billion units.
Yeah I love it.
So even if Madonna were to triple her sales, I'm pretty sure she still wouldn't freaking
reach like.
Okay actually that might be a little oversold.
So if she were to double her units sold, she'd be at like 680 million.
Like still wouldn't even be cracking Michael Jackson range.
That's nuts.
Oh yeah dude that is absolutely nuts.
Oh anyway.
Getting back to the character arc of Elvis.
It's hard, like I've said, it's really hard to base this stuff off of like a real person's
life.
Yeah.
Because we can't be, because it's hard to be, you feel like an asshole if you're just
like oh yeah the way your life is told.
Wish you would have had a better life.
You get a C minus of a life.
Yeah the writers on your story kind of suck.
So I mean the development that he did go through, like I said, even though it is a negative
arc and it doesn't end on a happy note and he kind of was on a steady decline.
The way that they were able to capture that story and make us feel not super like depressed
when the movie ended.
Yeah.
Was really well done.
Absolutely agree.
I'm still cracking 90s with this one.
Yeah you know what, I'm going 95.
I might be a little lower, like at a 92.
But fair.
Yeah.
Alright next up we got effects, which with this movie it didn't really have any special
effects so we'll talk more about like the cinematography and all that good stuff.
You got the makeup on Tom Hanks.
That's more costumes.
Oh yeah that's true.
Never mind rewind.
Yeah so the like with the cinematography and the sets, I liked how big the scale of this
movie felt.
It didn't feel like it was restrained or restricted to like a super small area.
True.
Y'all fully admit when they were putting that Elvis on the international billboard, like
the huge marquee whatever thing.
I don't know yeah that kind of shit gets me high so I'm like yeah Elvis.
Dude I was about to like rip this movie a new ass when it opened up and it was like
modern day Vegas.
I was like what the shit is this?
Yeah I'm like you guys didn't even freaking try.
Like this is such bullshit.
I was livid and then it was just like oh late 70s I'm like oh or not 70s like whenever Tom
Parker died.
I think he 90s I think.
Oh yeah 1997.
Okay.
Yeah so when he died it was like more modern day Vegas so I was but I was ready to freaking
like lose my mind.
I was like this is such bullshit.
Guys like you said you didn't even try.
Come on.
Oh man.
Anyway but yeah once they got to like like past that and it was like back in time like
they did a really solid job of that and they did like like so there's not really much to
note there but the cinematography on this movie dude was crazy and it kind of helped
with like the chaotic feel that I was talking about earlier.
Dude the freaking one that like really brings I feel the cinematography up so much is the
one where the concert where they're where they're saying like oh you know you have to
change you can't do any type of wiggling you can't do your finger waving and don't even
think about doing a pelvic thrust and everything and he just he just decides you know like
F this I'm going to give the people what they want the real Elvis Presley and just like
the quick cuts that they do between like the fans and like the police trying to hold them
back of how much Elvis is getting into the song and then like after the performance of
like the police coming in and breaking it all up and like them taking Elvis away taking
even his parents away trying to control the fans still dealing with his his band I freaking
loved it.
Yeah that was super well done.
There was lots of like camera spinning if that's like the word for it or whatever the
hell you would.
Let's just say it is.
Yeah like it just very disorienting when they did shit like that and I think that was just
kind of meant to enhance the scenes or the yeah the shots so I mean it worked it worked
really well.
They just it just made me feel like oh my gosh like what the hell is going on like in
the moments where that's what he was feeling like what the hell's going on.
Yeah.
Gosh I'm trying to think of like some other stuff like the I think the way that they were
able to capture some of his like iconic performances like the one with that like that Christmas
special that he was supposed to do.
Yes.
Like that was really really.
Dude watching that watching that like comparison.
Oh my god like freaking everything was just perfect.
Dude it was like I like lately I've been getting a lot of the the side by side videos on Tik
Tok and I always stop and watch it even though I've watched it like a billion times already.
But it was really well done.
So kudos there.
Unfortunately I think this is probably the lowest score for me.
So I mean it was above it was above average like effects wise and everything like cinematography
was good.
But personally I'm sitting there like maybe an 84.
Okay.
I'm gonna go slightly above you I'm gonna go an 86.
That's completely fair.
All right.
Next up we got music.
And dude I have been contemplating this since I watched the movie.
Because knowing that Austin Butler sings all of the songs has that changed music score
for you at all.
Not really because I already gave the bonus points for the for the acting.
Fair enough.
What is getting me on this is that they somehow manage to not score a perfect 10.
Like when we talked about doing this movie I was like okay well obviously music is going
to be like a number one like 10 easy.
Here we are.
Yeah.
Unfortunately I'm afraid that it's not.
And here's my argument for it.
Like so where would you sit personally?
Like are you like where I'm at?
I'm personally at a nine.
At a nine?
Yeah.
So the reason I'm not at a 10 and I am a huge I love Elvis's music.
What ruined this for me is that they threw in modern artists.
You know you know I think I know why they did that.
Have you ever seen The Great Gatsby?
Yes.
Okay so you so remember how we you mentioned earlier that it's directed by the same guy
that was his name Baz Luhrmann?
Yes.
I don't know if you remember because I remember a lot of people were mad about this.
There is a scene when they're driving down like like on a bridge and they start playing
like modern like hip hop jazz and I know that scene like really pissed a lot of people off
and even in that movie they play the song A Little Party Never Killed Nobody and that
is a very modern song.
So I feel that that's kind of a very Baz Luhrmann kind of thing like he tries to put in modern
songs and make them work and like hope that you don't really notice but of course you
do because it's like but that's not Elvis Presley.
So of course I'm gonna notice that shit.
It's not even that.
It's not even that they were throwing in not Elvis Presley music.
It's the fact that they were throwing in like freaking rap shit.
Yeah, I agree with you there.
Like one that pissed me off and this was like such an interesting thing for me.
There's a moment where Can't Help Falling in Love with You plays but it's performed
by Casey Musgraves.
I love that rendition of that song.
It is a great one.
I hate that it was in this movie.
Damn.
Dude, it was it legitimately like pissed me off.
I'm like you guys you like if you want to have other people singing the songs to kind
of show like hey this is where Elvis got the inspiration for this song.
Like this is a song that he wanted to share with the world by hearing someone else sing
the song.
Like sure go ahead.
I don't care.
Like when they did Hound Dog and that one lady was like singing it and he was like listening
from the street.
Like when he overheard like that but you never hear him sing.
Well I guess you hear him a little bit sing Hound Dog.
But anyway like hearing that like knowing that that's kind of a modern interpretation
of the song.
Like whatever I get that one.
Like sure.
But you want to throw in freaking what's her face.
I wrote it down one sec.
Doja Cat.
What the shit was that?
Who thought that was a good idea?
Apparently Baz Luhrmann.
Yeah.
So unfortunately that is what's keeping the soundtrack from a 10 for me is that they threw
in modern interpretations of the songs instead of putting in the original like instead of
throwing in the Elvis Presley rendition of it or having someone in the movie sing it.
Like they did with that one Hound Dog or That's Alright Mama.
Yeah.
Like the way that like Elvis was like sharing that song and was like heard the guy playing
in that one dive bar or whatever like when he was a kid like totally understandable.
I am completely fine if you want to do that but don't throw him like walking around the
street and throw in freaking Doja Cat or freaking CeeLo Green.
Like that is like no.
Like absolutely not.
So yeah.
I was going to give this an 8 but Suspicious Minds has been stuck in my head ever since
I finished the movie.
So I'm going up to a 9 but I'm not happy about it because this was an easy 10 and you guys
managed to screw it up.
Oh shit.
Alright next up in costumes do the amount of bedazzling this costume team probably had
to do was ridiculous.
All I know is if they're not recognized at the Academy Awards this next year I'm going
to be pissed.
Dude legit if they if they don't get a nomination if they don't win like unless they like they
lose to someone who did like a Victorian era like movie like they have to win.
Yeah absolutely agree.
Like the they nailed Elvis's outfits to a tee.
Like the side by side comparisons with like Elvis's black leather outfit when he was doing
that Christmas special.
The white suit when he was singing If I Can Dream.
Or just like any of the other like super famous outfits that he's had like the white jumpsuit
the blue jumpsuit the pink suit like freaking take your pick.
Seriously though.
Like they did amazing on these costumes and that's not even bringing up the makeup that
they did on Tom Hanks.
Yeah like oh my god so good.
Yeah of course you can still tell I mean you can still tell it's Tom Hanks.
Oh absolutely.
But but still amazing job.
Yeah like he like they're Tom Hanks isn't winning any awards.
Like makeup is it like yeah the whole makeup team isn't probably isn't going to win any
awards for this but the costumes dude.
Dude seriously.
Like absolutely freaking iconic.
The only thing that I feel that they didn't quite get right and I'm actually might not
like I want to.
Okay yeah.
The only thing that I feel that they didn't quite get like right on the money was Elvis's
military haircut.
Yeah I will even I would agree with that.
Like it didn't even look like he got a haircut.
Yeah straight up.
Like even the side even the sides weren't shaved.
Yeah like I thought that they were going to go a lot deeper with that but he had like
like shaved sides when he was in the military so I mean I feel like they could have done
that better.
Yeah but that is such a minor complaint.
Fair enough.
So why are you sitting with costumes?
Are you sitting out of 10?
Are you at a 9?
I can be talked up to a 10.
Like if I had to like if we did like this thing I'd be at like a 9.8.
Like I'm so close to a 10 it's not even funny.
You know honestly for just how amazing the costumes were I'm I would do a 10.
I'll match you.
I have no shame matching you there.
Hell yeah.
Alright last up we got our own personal score for this one.
Do you want me to take this one?
You pick.
I can do it.
Start off.
Yeah sure.
I don't know why I that was weird but whatever.
Anyway overall this is a great music biopic.
Austin Butler is amazing as Elvis Presley he embodies him so well from the singing to
the dancing to the voice.
It's incredible.
The story that they're able to tell with Elvis's life is both entertaining and heartbreaking
what he goes through.
Just yeah just such a great music biopic and I really don't have a lot of problems with
it.
So overall I'm gonna go a 93.
Yeah I had a lot of a lot of fun with this movie really appreciated some of the things
I learned about Elvis.
And like critically like I think they did a super solid job.
But with this being my own personal score I didn't enjoy it as much as I did like Rocket
Man or Bohemian Rhapsody which are basically like the same feel of movie.
But I mean that doesn't mean that.
Oh sorry.
No what.
No I was gonna say that's kind of funny because like I will fully admit like Bohemian Rhapsody
is still number one for me but actually I think Elvis jumped up to number two.
I actually liked it better than Rocket Man.
Did you really?
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you.
Oh you're good.
Yeah I had a really fun time with this movie.
It was good.
I'm not trying to make it sound like it wasn't it's just there were other like biopics that
I enjoyed more and I think the music really like struck my soul.
Yeah fair enough.
And so like that just kind of really got under my skin and kind of like made me not enjoy
it as much as I feel I could have.
But I overall like it is like critically it is a fantastic movie.
But personally I think I'm down in like 86 range.
Okay.
So yeah.
So that concludes this breakdown.
So I thought.
Oh sorry.
No you're good.
I don't know what I was gonna say here.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
All right.
But with that.
That brings our story grade to a 93.
The writing came in a little bit lower at a 91.
Acting shot straight up to a 96.5.
The character development brought it down just a hair sitting at a 93.5.
Music's pretty average.
Like maybe above average for cinematography.
Sitting at a solid 85.
Music top notch music just dropped down because they could have done better.
Sitting at a nine.
Costumes solid 10.
Like solid solid solid 10.
And then our personal score averaged out to an 89.5.
So with all that.
The final Albrows letter grade for Elvis has come to a.
A minus.
Hell yeah.
Yeah so it is sitting at a 92.31 percent.
So that's a lot higher than I thought it was gonna get.
Yeah same here.
That's awesome though.
Yeah so let's see where it's sitting on our ranking.
This is extremely interesting placing.
All right.
So like we said Elvis is sitting at an A minus which puts it at a 92.31 percent.
So that puts it directly in line with a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
And that puts it above the eternals which is at a 92.25.
Puts it above our friend which is at a 92.12.
Puts it above Logan which is at a 91.81.
Puts it above the Batman which is at a 91.62.
And puts it above Coco which is at a 91.4.
Damn that's awesome.
Yeah so going the opposite direction it is below the Bob's Burgers movie which is at
a 92.37.
It is below Joker which is also at a 92.37.
It is below Pulp Fiction which is at a 92.43.
It's below Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse which is at a 92.59.
And then finally it is below Last Night in Soho which is at a 92.62.
So the margins here are ridiculously close.
Dude no kidding.
Holy shit.
That's awesome though.
Yeah right.
But funny enough like I said I prefer Rocketman.
It's oh where is it?
Oh here it is.
It is above Rocketman.
No shit.
Yeah.
Wow.
So it's like comparing it to another movie of its kind.
It's above Rocketman by a couple points actually.
It's actually like a little over 3%.
So Rocketman is sitting at an 89.9%.
Wow okay.
And then the other direction it's below Bohemian Rhapsody by 3%.
So they're all equally spaced.
So Bohemian Rhapsody is sitting at an A. Elvis is sitting at an A-.
And then Rocketman is sitting at a B+.
That's pretty freaking cool actually.
Right?
So I'm genuinely surprised that it ended up scoring this high.
I'm happy about it though.
Yeah I'm not upset.
I think like I said personal ranking I would probably put it below Rocketman but that's
not how we grade things here.
Alright well I'd say that will do it for this week's episode.
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of Pinocchio which funny enough stars Tom Hanks as well.
Holy shit dude.
Yeah I know right Tom Hanks is just everywhere.
Dude he is like he's an Elvis which is right in line with a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Yeah so maybe that's gonna be where Pinocchio ranks.
I really because Pinocchio holds a like actually like a real special place in my heart because
this is actually my favorite like classic Disney film.
I loved this movie so much growing up and I still do and I'm just very interested to
see if they actually do some of the dark ass moments that are in that original because
I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about but yeah that donkey scene holy shit when
you get older that is just so sad.
Like it hits you oh my god.
It's heartbreaking that scene.
Yeah that's all I gotta say about it.
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