What up bros and welcome to the All Bros Podcast, I'm Jonathan.
And I'm Caleb.
And we're a couple of aspiring filmmakers that love to watch and critique movies but
also enjoy a lot of bit of the nerd life.
This week on the podcast we will be skipping over, wow I almost forgot the name, Funko
Focus, 4K Spotlight, as well as Through the Wall because we had the privilege of asking
the director of the movie that we will be breaking down on this episode some questions
and we are going to be reading those instead of going through all that.
So this review will be the first half, or sorry, this episode, I am already screwing
this up so badly.
Come on man.
Shut up.
So the first half of this episode will be us reading the questions that we asked her
as well as how she answered them and then the second half will be the breakdown of her
indie film which was entitled The Rocky Road to Freedom.
Hell yeah.
We were going to interview her like our Question of the Week stated but she has been experiencing
some power outages today so wasn't able to make it happen.
And she is actually in London and there is a 7 hour time difference and it's kind of
difficult to line something up.
Yeah, just a little bit.
But anyway, Caleb, what do you say we get started?
I say let's do it.
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So like we said, we are skipping over all of our Funko Focus, 4K Spotlight and Through
the Wall and we'll be talking about some of the questions that Caleb and I asked Rose,
the director of the Rocky Road to Freedom, as well as some questions that you guys asked
and we shared with her.
So yeah, so Caleb, I'll get started if that's okay with you.
Yep.
Okay.
So the first question we asked her was, were the actors you chose friends or people you
knew or did you hold auditions?
And she said, well, actually the cast changed halfway through.
The pre-production of the movie normally takes about half a year because I do it mainly
by myself in between college classes.
I had auditioned and got a cast together originally.
You can see them on the current poster on IMDB working on it.
I promise she put in parentheses.
But then when it came to two weeks before filming, our lead had to drop out due to health
issues and the other two main cast members either had to get jobs or moved to a different
country.
Damn, that's that.
That is very unfortunate.
Yeah, that might, that might be an issue.
Just, just a little bit.
So I quickly offered the role to the runners up, to the runners up.
I still couldn't find a lead actor though, who would commit to the shoot time.
I asked all the cast and crew to ask around and actresses who plays and the actress who
plays May found Zach three days before filming started.
He saved our butts and was a saint.
Dude, that's insane.
Yeah, no, no kidding.
That is like, obviously we haven't put as much effort into a short film as she has.
Cause the only person that you've ever cast is your brother.
Yeah, honestly, no joke.
Brothers, cause I forgot we've had Bronson and a couple.
Bronson and Coy.
That's true.
That is true.
The, the closest call, like what was the closest call we ever had?
Isn't it that heroes video that we made?
I think so.
Yeah.
So it was, I, I'm not sure if we've ever talked about it on the, on the show before we, or
you had an assignment to make a commercial for a dance at our school, our senior year.
And you came to me on like Friday, like, I think it was like after lunch, you came and
we're just like, Oh, so I have this assignment due on Monday.
And I'm like, Oh, that sucks.
And you're just like, yeah, so we need to like shoot, record, shoot, like basically
do everything that's involved in a damn video and we have less than three days to do it.
I'm that kind of procrastinator or I was, I've gotten better.
You came, you came and you're just like, yeah, so I got this assignment due when I help.
And I'm like, yeah, sure.
Like thinking we had time and you're like, yeah, so it's due Monday.
And I'm like, well, shit Rose.
I'm like, so what's the commercial for?
And he's like, Oh, we have a dance coming up.
We need to make a commercial for the dance.
And I'm like, okay, well, what's the theme?
And it was like a hero's theme.
And I'm like, okay, I have a shit ton of superhero shirts at, at home.
We can probably make something work with that.
It was winter time, I think.
So or yeah, no, it was, was it?
Yeah.
Cause you were freezing your ass off.
Cause yeah, when you were, you were wearing the Batman shirt, you were wearing a long
sleeve under so you didn't freeze to death.
That's right.
Yeah.
So I just grabbed all the superhero shirts I could, and we just did like short little
scenes and I, and then you sent them to me and I edit them all added like all the special
effect, like it was insane.
So I can only imagine how stressful it must be to make a full length movie and, and not
know who your lead is until like three days before.
Really quickly speaking of that whole situation with that video.
So it was for my video production class, uh, cave TV, uh, for AF high school.
And the best part was, is that, so Caleb wasn't in the class.
It was just me, but after, uh, cause Caleb came with me to show the, uh, the teacher,
um, how it looked and you know, like to get his, uh, say of how it looked.
And right after he finished the, uh, video, he's just like, he looks to Caleb.
He's just like, who are you and why aren't you in my class?
And yeah, Caleb never joined cave TV though.
Hell no, cave TV was stupid.
Hey, shut up.
It was, it was cool back.
No, no, I really wasn't that cool.
Don't even like say that it was cool.
It was not cool.
I felt somewhat cool.
Yeah.
Well, the only thing that was like cool about it, I think was that he submitted that commercial.
Oh yeah.
Or at a film festival and we were actually runner up.
Yeah.
But the thing that sucks is he only submitted it with my name.
He didn't put your name on it.
I don't give a shit.
We know who we made it together.
Yeah, true.
True, true.
But yeah, not bad for something like, I'm pretty sure like all the other submissions
fricking worked on theirs for weeks.
We did ours in three days.
Yeah, we half-assed it, made it in three days and ended up almost winning.
Yeah.
So I call that pretty impressive.
I call that impressive too.
Anyway, let's see.
Our next question was, what was your biggest hurdle making this film?
And she said it was originally supposed to be a musical with way more singing scenes
with the band.
But unfortunately, our composer, who was an amazing classical composer, but was not used
to writing rock songs at all.
So our songs were not very usable.
I made the actors sing them, but the actors were not happy about the outcome and we decided
to cut almost all of the singing out of the film.
Another hurdle, of course, was that we swapped DOP.
Oh, um.
I don't know what DOP means.
What is it?
Is it director of photography?
Ooh, that actually might be what it is.
So we swapped DOP and basically the whole crew mid-shoot.
Because my whole cast and crew, including myself, were working for credits, the DOP
and his AC, what the hell does AC mean?
Assistant?
No?
Uh, I should know all of these terms.
Yeah, what the hell, Rose?
No, it's not assistant crew member.
Uh, I, look, keep reading all of them.
I'm trying to figure it out.
Um, yeah, so they, yeah, so the DOP and his AC as well as sound had to leave mid-shoot
to get paid work as it came up.
The team headed by Aaron Wakely did an amazing job picking up where the previous team left
off.
That was great fun.
Oh my gosh, that would suck.
Okay, so I was right.
It is director of photography and then AC is assistant camera.
Assistant camera?
Yeah.
Okay.
So she lost her director of photography, her camera, like, over someone helping with the
camera and their sound guy.
So camera assistant is kind of like, you know how usually the director is the one that is
at the camera chair and, you know, like is looking, making sure that everything is getting
filmed what they want?
Right.
So the assist, they usually call them first assistant camera, is the person that's in
charge of like taking off the lens, changing like the shutter speed or like whatever needs
to be changed on the camera.
So the only thing that the director has to worry about is looking through that lens and
making sure that everything is going right on screen the way that they want it to.
Hmm.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
That's, that's just a huge fricking hurdle.
Like you, you have to-
Yeah, I'm so sorry.
You have to get a whole new team in.
And like, it's just luckily like, so we've already done the breakdown for this movie
because we were going to do this, this interview later, but I don't think we addressed it,
but knowing this, the, uh, everything, like there was not very many, or I, I can't think
of any off the top of my head, there weren't any shots that looked different from others
other than maybe the, the singing scene, where it was like more music video-esque.
Yeah.
No, but other than that, um, it looks like it all just flowed together quite well.
Yeah.
So it's something that you can barely notice.
Um, when it comes to sound on the other hand, we, we get into that, but oh my.
Gosh, that would just be not fun.
And then seeing how this was supposed to be like, I could actually see having seen the
movie already, like I can see how this could have been a musical.
I want to see the director's cut of this as the musical.
That's just because I'm a sucker for a musical.
I freaking love musicals to death.
Yeah.
You're absolutely a sucker for musicals.
Um, but yeah, I, I can also see like being an actor, not wanting to sing all the songs,
especially if you're not like trained to, I don't think that'd be super fun.
It's like, yeah, we got to discuss our, my salary cause I need to be paid more if I'm
doing this.
Yeah.
Well, she said everyone was doing it for credits.
That's the, that's the reason the, uh, DOP and his assistant camera left is because they
went to go do paid work.
I mean, so that kind of sucks.
Yeah.
Seriously though.
I'm so sorry.
Yeah.
Um, all right.
Next question we asked her was, was the final product, what you envisioned when you first
started?
Did anything change at all?
And she said, none of my movies come out as I envision, uh, but that is mainly due to
complete lack of funding.
Fair enough.
Like I understand that on a spiritual level.
We they usually come out better than envisioned though.
Okay.
That's awesome.
Um, so I can't complain.
Andy Lowe, Andy Lowe, who was the amazing DOP for the first half of the shoot shot the
dream sequences over three days.
And that came out so much better than I had even hoped.
I had a vague idea about lights, et cetera, but he and Andrew turned up with enough led
lights to decorate Christmas and make a really good show.
Oh, absolutely.
Those dream sequences were really well done.
Yeah.
Those were awesome.
Excellent lighting work.
But spoiler alerts for a breakdown.
Sorry.
Whoopsie.
Now I don't think we got too much into it, but yeah, it, it's nice though that they turn
out better than you think that they're going to.
Yeah, that is always nice.
Yeah.
I don't think we've ever had something come out where we're like, oh yeah, this is like
an actual masterpiece.
So like we've just been like, well, it's done.
We made the due date.
So it's all that matters.
Yeah.
That's the majority of how all of our projects go.
Yep.
Like just short of this podcast, like this podcast is a week by week thing.
We record on Thursdays.
I edit on Fridays or Saturdays and then we release Mondays.
So I have a decent chunk of time to work on stuff, but yeah, I, yeah, but like this is
something that I'm proud of that we make, but it's easier to make than a fricking movie
Oh yeah, definitely.
But when it's come to like all of the filming and directions and all of this other different
stuff, these different aspects, like nothing that we've come out was like exactly how we
envisioned it.
And none of it came out where I was like, huh, that was better than we planned.
Cause honestly, the movie, um, what we should like put like a link to it on Instagram or
something that I'm getting.
No, we should not.
Why not?
Come on.
Why not?
You know damn well why not just go watch it again.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, but literally the short film we made, I'm getting there completely made up on the
spot like nothing had been written.
At least I'm pretty sure nothing had been written before, right?
Nope.
Yeah.
Not a single thing.
Yep.
Everything was made up on the spot.
So do with that what you will.
If you do decide to go watch it.
Yeah.
Um, so our next question was how long did it take you to write and shoot the film?
Uh, and she said, my shooting is usually three and a bit weeks solid shooting with one day
off a week.
Um, I shoot during summer holidays for convenience writing a movie.
I write on and off throughout the year beforehand while I'm in classes.
If forced, I can write a script in two months, I think.
But rocky road had a whole bunch of revisions.
So that took most of the year.
You never really think about how long that side of it takes.
You don't.
Like, like you kind of forget all like the, the little things that go into it.
Like shooting, shooting takes a really long time.
Yeah.
But like, how long did we shoot?
We shot for like three days for something that was barely a few minutes long.
Yep.
Yeah.
Like that's insane.
Yeah.
When you think about it.
It really is.
And then let alone writing, like taking a full year to write.
I'm a felon, like it makes sense.
I mean, I, the stuff that I've tried writing, it's just like takes forever.
All I can say is I got props to like all script writers out there.
Y'all have like such a, such a hard job and I applaud you.
Yeah.
His writing is a very important part to movies.
And that's why we use or we take writing into consideration when we grade movies.
So, well done.
Everyone that writes.
Yes.
Except for if you wrote Vampire Suck, then you suck.
Yeah.
I just want to put that out there.
All right.
Next question.
What is your biggest goal as a filmmaker?
To make people's life a little bit more silly and hopefully make a living from it.
It's what we all want.
Yeah, we feel you.
I don't really have a grandiose goal.
When I was four, I told my mom I was going to make films and it kind of escalated from
there.
A really worthy goal.
I don't even remember when the first time I was like, I started thinking, I actually,
I don't think it was until maybe after high school that I started thinking about film
or maybe not even necessarily film, just like videos.
Really?
It wasn't while we were in high school?
When I was in senior year?
Not really.
Like it was always something that like I enjoyed doing.
Like I enjoyed the challenge of making something look good and telling like a story.
But it was never something that I considered as a career or even pursuing until after.
It's like sometime before this.
As of right now, woodworking is like my passion that I feel like I could make money to.
I can make enough money to support my family, but also have the freedom to pursue the video
creation and eventual filmmaking that we're wanting to do.
Obviously I have to get multiple things up to a certain point to do that.
I never really considered it as a career option until either like right before or a little
after graduation.
Okay.
Nice.
What about you?
When did you start wanting to do?
Honestly it was probably senior year when I did do Cape TV because like honestly before
then I had no idea what I was going to study in college.
My major was so undecided.
But after taking that class, seeing that I loved filmmaking, just everything that goes
into it, I decided you know what?
I would love to be able to do that for a career and get paid for that.
So yeah.
I think it'd be really cool to get paid as critics too.
Oh hell yeah.
That'd be dope.
Yeah that'd be super cool.
Wink wink wink.
Just throwing that out there.
If anyone wants to pay us as critics, we're here.
It's just a subtle nudge.
That's all this is.
It's just a subtle nudge.
Yeah.
Alright let's see.
Our next question was...
Oh wait is it your turn for questions or is it mine?
No it's yours.
Okay cool.
So the next one is what are your favorite types of stories to tell?
She said funny silly ones.
So many movies now take themselves so seriously.
I'm just a filmmaker who's just learning the craft.
I got no money at all.
Or I got no money and all of my cast are only turning up for experience and credits.
I don't yet have the skills to even try Gone with the Wind.
So I stick to comedy.
And I like to sit down and watch silly puffy little movies that make you feel like life
isn't so bad really.
Stories like Belleville Rendezvous and Therapy for a Vampire or Wild Target.
That was difficult.
Are you okay?
I don't know.
She said a lot of big words.
Oh man.
I was able to make it out in my head.
I just couldn't say it for some reason.
Oh my goodness I love it.
Yeah apparently we need to start reading with Caleb or confuse Caleb with big words.
Apparently.
Oh that's what it was.
So I thought when she said Therapy for a Vampire I thought James Corden was in the movie actually.
But no it was Lesbian Vampire Killers that he was in.
Uh oh.
Yeah I don't think I've seen any of these movies so I know what I'm adding to my list.
Same here.
Alright so the next question we asked was what kind of films should we expect to see
from you in the future?
She said well I got as of right now around 12 scripts written-ish and 3 more in the process.
I'm currently working on a series of 6 fantasy comedy features called The Greenlands.
They have a dramatic podcast that goes with them and I'm currently working with some other
people on a series of period drama movies.
But that second project is very much in the works still.
I'm sticking to making silly ridiculous movies and The Greenlands is definitely that.
Love it.
One thing after this whole getting reached out and being asked to break down a movie
like this and actually seeing it.
Like all of our directors that we've been reached out from I want to see more of what
you guys got.
Yeah same here.
Like I'm keeping a close eye on you guys' career and so I'm super excited for everything
that's going to come out.
So nice to know we have 12 movies in our future.
Looking forward to it.
Hopefully after this breakdown you don't hate us and want us to review them.
Because that would be real cool.
That would be super cool.
I mean do we sound like complete losers?
We do.
In that but.
Yeah.
So can you hear the desperation in our voice?
Oh shit.
Alright next up we got a or we posted a question of the week just asking if you guys had any
questions for Rose and about her movie or just about her in general or whatever.
And we got one response, two questions but they're both from the untrained eye over on
Twitter at untrained iPod.
And I think that's on Twitter and Instagram.
But they asked if you could remake any movie what would it be and who would play the main
characters?
And she said oof tough one.
So many movies have been massacred especially the adaptations of books.
So many have fallen.
The one that pops to mind fastest is cats.
I would have remade cats and cast everyone entirely either as normal people or really
well trained cats.
That's where literally half the budget is going to go.
Training the cats.
Yeah.
Could you say worth it?
Oh yeah that would be absolutely worth it.
That would literally be the best adaptation I've ever seen.
I would watch it and I would help fund that if I could.
And I would have shot it with the same intensity as those really old bad Bollywood dramas.
Dude why isn't this a thing?
For real though.
This is better than the version we got.
Oh my gosh right?
Let's see.
Really bad Bollywood dramas where they do like 50 extreme fast close up zoom in.
Yes!
Reaction shots for everything.
Rose you are speaking my language.
We got a rose connection going here.
Yes.
I want everything you just said and so much more.
Alright and the final question that we asked.
I don't know if Caleb asked this or did someone actually ask this on?
No this was Untrained Eye again.
Oh this was Untrained Eye that actually said this?
This was their second one.
Oh I didn't know that they actually asked this.
So Untrained Eye also asked will you give the All Bros a walk on roll in your next movie?
And Rose said if you can get your amazing selves to marry England and avoid being arrested
and thrown in quarantine sure.
Bet.
Freaking challenge.
That's all I needed to hear.
Challenge accepted.
I mean hell we've rebelled from the English before.
True that.
I mean not us personally just our country.
I was going to say where the hell was I?
We're law abiding citizens.
No we're law abiding citizens.
I'm talking about Americans.
Oh shit.
Yeah like that would be like the headline.
Americans do American shit.
Oh man.
Alright.
Caleb.
Well thank you.
Yes hold on.
Sorry.
So thank you Untrained Eye for asking the questions and thank you also Rose for taking
the time to answer these questions.
Yes thank you.
Thank you very much.
But Caleb unless you have anything else you would like to say about the interview that
we had.
One second I think she might have sent us some links.
So I'm going to put everything in the video description but she says that the if you want
to check out her website it is rosegoldthorpe.com.
If you want to buy this movie the rocky road or the rocky road of freedom.
I've seen it both ways.
I'm not sure if it's the rocky road or.
We're just going to call it the rocky road.
If you want to buy it and find out more info for current projects you can go follow her
on Instagram at the underscore Greenlands.
And that's on her or that's her fantasy podcast and project.
Unfortunately the Greenlands movie is on hold until they take away lockdown in this country.
So that's fair.
Everyone pray for merry old England.
So we can get the Greenlands.
And also subscribe to everything that she does.
So like I said we'll put the links and everything that you need to know in the video description
or in the podcast description.
And some description.
I'm having difficulties today.
Just a little bit.
But it's going to be fun.
Alright so since we've talked so much about this movie Caleb what do you say we finally
break it down.
I say let's do it.
Alright so with this week's headliner we'll be breaking down an indie film called the
Rocky Mountain Road.
Caleb was there a subtitle for this or was it just the Rocky Mountain Road.
This is the Rocky Road.
Oh it's the.
Oh my gosh.
Isn't Rocky Mountain Road a song?
I goofed really badly.
Wow.
Oh shit.
Wow.
Okay.
Yeah this is called the Rocky Road to Freedom.
That's what it is.
Thank you.
The Rocky Road to Freedom.
The Rocky Mountain Road.
Wow.
Maybe it wasn't the best idea to have me take control of this episode.
Probably not.
Anyway.
But it's entertaining.
Shut up.
So like we said this week's headliner will not be the Rocky Mountain Road but the Rocky
Road.
The Rocky Road Road to Freedom right?
The Rocky Road to Freedom.
Oh the Rocky Road to Freedom.
Gosh damn it.
Wow okay anyway.
Caleb before I put my foot in my mouth anymore do you want to explain how we break down movies
on this podcast?
I would love to.
So if you are new to our breakdown system we have split movies into eight different
categories that we individually grade to come to a final all bros letter grade.
And it's like a schoolhouse letter grade.
The eight categories that we grade are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes and then we give it our own personal grade.
All of the scores that we are about to list off we have talked about and discussed and
whatever previously.
So we have all of the scores the only one that we are changing things up a tiny little
bit just so it's more of a surprise for us too.
We have not discussed our own personal grade yet.
So we will discuss that at the end and then we will have our final score at the end.
We are starting to do that because then I would see the final score for the movie and
usually the personal grade it bumps up the average by like depending on the difference
in everything.
It could bump it up a letter or by I don't even know what you call that by half a point.
Not half a point it could bump it up a couple percent it could lower it a couple percent.
It's just the personal grade is just the final piece of the pie and it can like I have a
general idea of what the score is going to be.
It's just I want to be surprised as well when the final grade comes.
So I probably over explain that like no man's business but whatever.
You kind of did but we still love you.
So starting off with story we are in an odd predicament because we do not have a synopsis
for this movie.
And we made the wrong decision of not reaching out to the director and asking for her to
give us a synopsis of her film.
Before recording of course.
So oops.
So we are going to have to come up with one on the fly or Rose is going to have to come
up with one on the fly.
Like hell.
What do you mean like hell?
Hey this is just reading with Rose this ain't no making up shit as I go along with Rose.
New segment everyone making shit up with Rose.
That's the definition of my life right there.
Straight up.
Okay so I'll try my best.
Caleb do you have the list of characters pulled up?
I sure do.
Okay one second let me pull them up.
Alright can you see?
Yes I can.
Alright so here we go.
Bear with me please guys.
So Gabriel is a kind of down on his luck musician that is just working at a dead end job.
Not a fan of it.
His boss is kind of an ass.
I'm not going to lie.
Yeah he's a prick.
And so you can tell he doesn't really care because he will wait.
Well okay it seems like he wakes up on time but he's usually late for it.
Which you know what when you hate a job can't say I blame you man.
And then his buddy Tom, that's his best friend right?
Is it his best friend or just a worker?
I'm assuming so.
I'm assuming it's yeah.
So, so uh oh my gosh.
So Gabriel and Tom decide, I don't know if this was all along, they decide to form a
band or no like haven't they been practicing music for a little bit but then they finally
decide to like really get it to take off?
They try to decide to like really push themselves?
Yes.
So, yeah so they decide to like really get a band going and so Gabriel meets this girl
named Caleb shit what do you remember her name?
May.
Can you not see it?
It's very blurry and you know that my eyesight sucks.
So Gabriel meets up with this girl named May who is also a musician, she is a pianist and
she is trying to get her name out there as well and so he asks her to join the band and
so it becomes Gabriel, May, Tom, what is, oh yeah that was, oh yeah their drummer's
name Fuzzy and so they you know they start practicing, they make a music video, it doesn't
go that well and so they try their hand at it again and after getting like good equipment,
an actual recording studio, just like all the necessities that you would need to actually
make a decent music video, they're able to get that fully put together, it's a decent
hit, they are contacted by a music producer, they, well actually wait no I'm sorry first
before that, I'm sorry I'm skipping around here, they get a gig at a local, it wasn't
a bar right Caleb?
It was a, it is a bar but the Brits call it a pub.
That's what it is thank you.
So they get a gig at a pub, I just think pub sounds better anyway, like I would much rather
call a bar a pub, maybe that's just me.
But anyway, so they get a gig at a pub nearby in town and I believe that they're able to
perform two songs right?
It's not just one?
Yes from what I understood, each band was allowed to play two songs.
Oh yeah that's what I understood as well.
So yeah so they perform their two songs, it goes super super well to where after their
performance a music producer comes up to them, talks to them and says hey you know we love
you guys, you guys are great, we want to sign you.
They're given contracts but there's a little bit of an altercation between Gabriel and
May and just it kind of prolongs the contracts getting signed but they eventually do and
then they become this big, I don't really know how to explain, I don't really know how
to go about the ending, they do become a huge band and tour the world and all is well and
what's fun, so I can still spoil the whole movie right?
Yeah oh shit, we forgot, spoiler alert.
I mean technically we haven't really spoiled a lot of big plot points of this film but
I'm going to spoil the biggest plot point, at least to me, that the director Rose has
in this movie and it's throughout the movie you can tell that Gabriel does have a slight
crush on May and towards the end you know like he decides to finally get the push to
you know like talk to her, try to ask her out but then at the end it is discovered that
her father who left when she was a child that left her mother being an asshole like that
is the exact same father that left Gabriel and his mom so they're a long lost brother
and sister.
That honestly, that was quite a shock, I appreciate that Rose, that was actually a shock, I appreciate
that Rose, that was actually a decent plot twist, I did not see that coming and so I
did actually appreciate that and the way that it was handled was actually pretty funny with
how like the moms are like oh my gosh I always wanted a daughter and May's just like I don't
think that's how this works or like that's not exactly how this works and she just starts
like hugging her and it's pretty funny but like Gabriel's just like sitting in the corner,
he's just like oh my gosh this could have been so awkward and so yeah but so that is
the best I can do with subbing or summarizing up the plot of the rocky road to freedom.
Yeah I think you did a really good job.
Yes!
Yeah so unfortunately, so this is like an issue so the first so we'll get right into
it we scored the story at 50 and the issues I feel that we had with the story weren't
necessarily within the story itself.
No because the story.
Because I think the story like how you explained it, there's a good story there.
There honestly is.
I just don't think it was.
My biggest problem that I have with the story.
Oh sorry go ahead.
No go you go.
No I was telling Caleb about this after we had both finished it and like he said the
story is actually really good but it's just I feel like it jumped so fast from plot point
to plot point that it took me a little bit or like I wasn't able to like kind of like
catch my breath and be like okay so that plot point's over now let's move on to this next
one.
It was kind of like okay I gotta take like the quickest breath that I can take and so
we can jump into this next one and it was just beat after beat after beat and I was
like okay this is a little too fast for me.
Right yeah it is very quickly paced and you can definitely there was a couple times I
had to rewind because I.
There's a lot you can miss.
Yeah there's a lot you can miss.
Like I'm trying to think of like one example so one that I can actually think of off the
top of my head without giving it too much thought is when Gabriel decides that he wants
to start the band because he sees May playing piano in some park or out in the open.
That's a nice ass park by the way.
And so he wants to get this going.
Yeah right.
Excellent shooting location.
Freaking nothing like we have.
Yeah their shooting locations were amazing.
Seriously.
That's something I put in effects.
I did as well.
So okay so later on like so he decides he wants to start a band because he wants to
get to know her more or less and he goes gets a guitar and then it's like suddenly he goes
to her and is like hey we have a band.
Or actually he actually doesn't even do that.
He actually sees her playing and then goes and is like hey do you want to join our band?
And then she says yes and then it's like maybe a cut or two later they're in his house or
garage practicing.
Yeah.
It's like boy that escalated quickly.
It was just so fast.
And then later in the movie there is like a conflict with the like what you were saying
the contract getting signed but it's because it was revealed that May is a sex worker.
Yes.
And that there was like a little bit of an opening with including May kind of showing
Gabriel and May's mornings and really they don't address that she's a prostitute that
well.
I mean they say that they have a client and that there's like a really difficult client
that May is dealing with but then it's just never discussed for the rest of the movie
until like the 45 minute mark and the movie is about an hour long.
Yeah.
So 45 minutes in I actually it was like 48 minutes in then they have like this conflict
with the contract and the her being a prostitute.
And so it came very very fast and the way that it was revealed was also kind of odd.
Because Gabriel and the rest of the band are out celebrating that they got this contract
and so they go to a pub they get freaking wasted and they start like walking back home
or just walk or no they're going to another pub.
They're walking to a pub Gabriel goes ahead of them and then he bumps into May after some
dude comes out of what looks like a restroom.
So he comes out and then May comes out like shortly after that.
And then like the first thing that Gabriel says to her is like oh you're a hooker?
And it was just like wait how did you get that?
I mean like there was no discussion it was just like that could have been her boyfriend
for all you know asshole.
You got a point.
It's just like you they just didn't I don't think it was just it was set up quite right.
I think that there could have been I'm trying to think of like another way that they could
have made that reveal.
Oh I got it.
Maybe they're just everyone's freaking like wasted and then they're like hey let's or
we can go to another bar and then this dude maybe this the guy that's like offering the
to sign them the new manager or whatever he's like I know a place where we can really have
some fun and then they go to the maybe the brothel or whatever you want to call where
she works.
Oh dude that would have been a really good way.
Yeah and then it's just like oh that's the reveal.
Yeah.
I think that would have worked just a little bit better than it's just I mean it's still
coming out.
Yeah I mean I still feel it was like a very interesting plot point.
I just wish that like you said it was handled in like a different way or played out in a
different way.
Right and we I think we addressed this in the next category a little bit better a little
bit more but it's just the reason it scored so low is because it was so difficult to follow.
Yes.
And like you said you it's almost kind of like they took the synopsis of the movie and
just kind of threw in a little bit of like dialogue and then just kind of jumped to those
plot points which I think this movie could have easily been maybe an hour 20 hour 30.
Oh yeah easily.
Yeah if like some plot points were stretched out or a couple more lines were added we weren't
jumping around so fast.
Yeah this easily could have been an hour and a half film and I feel it actually would have
probably what's the word.
Oh shit would have gained gained from that.
That's not the word that I'm searching for.
Yeah like enhanced.
There we go.
Yeah that's the word I'm looking for.
Thank you.
Yeah I feel that would definitely would have enhanced the film if it was able to go for
a longer one time.
Right and the reason that we we graded it the way that we did so low is like I said
because it was so jumpy and we grade the the flow of the movie and I think we've talked
about it before but the fan for stick movie it it also has this issue jumping from plot
point to plot point to plot point and it's just like it's so jarring it just it just
needs to like it just needs a little slow down.
Yeah but like that movie was what like two hours so.
Yeah but it felt like an hour and a half in a really bad way.
Yeah so I feel like I said before if this movie was able to get just a little extra
runtime I feel that would have definitely helped out the flow of the movie as well as
the story.
I agree.
So yeah like we said story is sitting at a 50.
Moving on over to writing this scored a little bit lower than the story.
This actually got a 46.
I mean overall I thought the writing was decent.
I think the only wasted lines I felt kind of came out of what was the drummer's name?
No no it wasn't the drummer.
Fuzzy.
Okay maybe a couple of his but then do you remember the guy that Gabriel recruits?
Oh the guitarist?
Yeah yeah I forget.
Let me go back to the page and see what his name was.
I don't know maybe this might be.
I'm assuming it's Mike?
Oh it's not Samson?
Oh yeah no it's not Samson.
Oh so I don't know it could be.
Let's just say he's Mike.
I forget what I forget the guitarist's name.
It's either Mike or Samson.
Okay this might be more so with acting but it's just I feel his character was written
in there to kind of like give their band members or their band more members to get better sound
in a way but then like you get that scene with you know Gabriel recruiting him and then
like a couple scenes.
I feel after that he doesn't really the character really doesn't get a lot of time to shine
with the writing.
I feel that's really the only time that he really gets any moment in the spotlight.
It's just like hey you play guitar?
Oh that's cool you should be in our band.
Okay cool you know like I've never really or I haven't had a gig or like anything big
happen to me in years so you know like why not?
That's kind of like the last plot or like writing plot point that we hear about his
character.
Right honestly I probably would have written him out.
I would have too honestly.
He was he was introduced a little late in the game and so it was kind of hard to be
rooting with or for him or with him.
Yeah I can definitely agree with that.
Yeah but a lot of the dialogue was it was okay.
It wasn't I don't know I feel like there's just there wasn't it didn't feel like there
was it much depth to the chat.
No.
Or whenever they were chatting it didn't feel like there was much depth in inside it and
I'm interested in or for those of you that don't know hopefully we explain it.
This episode or this portion is being recorded before we've interviewed the director so this
might actually be one of the questions that we ask but I want to figure out whether how
experienced she is at writing or if that's like something that she struggles with because
it's like because I've tried writing like I mean you've seen how I've tried writing.
I'm not very very good at writing dialogue.
No he sucks ass.
Yeah I am kidding I'm kidding.
No you're absolutely correct I am garbage at writing dialogue.
I suck at it but I am I feel try not to brag but I feel like I'm really good at giving
a broad picture.
Yes you are actually and I can actually.
It's just the little details.
The way I can really prove that is we did a short film for one of my film classes titled
I'm Getting There and most of the broad spectrum that we did and like certain plot points that
he wanted or like certain area or certain like certain ways that he wanted something
filmed that was all Caleb like honestly I just kind of like took a backseat and was
like you know what Caleb this is your movie let's see what you got even though I got the
grade.
Yeah it was until we needed dialogue that I was just like oh I don't know shit.
Well I don't even think for that class I never did a video with dialogue did we?
I think it was all still.
We had a little bit of dialogue.
We did.
Yeah not much but we had a little bit and I feel like that's been your strong suit like
you've always been really good at doing like the conversations.
Well thank you.
But yeah and I it's just the broad picture for me is way easier like I can show you what
the picture is supposed to be just don't expect a whole lot of detail and I think that's what
this movie might have been at least from a writing aspect I think that's what it might
have been lacking a little bit.
I think it was just lacking detail.
Yeah I can agree with that.
So it didn't score much less than the story just a few points.
I think like we said it was a 46.
It's just it's tough it's tough to get the writing good.
I think that's like the little detail aspect of it is difficult.
So honestly writing I mean we commend you for what you were able to do.
Yeah because writing a script is honestly I feel one of the hardest things to do as
a filmmaker if you're the one that's stuck with doing it.
It's a pain in the ass.
So that's all I'm going to say.
Mad props but I mean I love writing scripts like honestly I have a fun ass time with it.
But I'll fully admit that sometimes it is definitely a struggle but once you get it
perfect or like you get it to where it's where you want it to be you feel so great.
Yeah it was I mean like we said I'm not sure we could have done much better.
It's just this was where I don't think I could have.
It needed a bit more.
I think this just needed.
I think it needed it like a writer's touch.
And I'm interested to hear if that's what she wants wanted to focus on the writing or
the directing.
Yeah I'm interested about that too.
Because like honestly this is I don't know jack shit about music and so everything that
you were was written into this movie just how the script was written so much better
than what I could have done.
I don't know jack shit about anything music.
So like we said 46 percent or 46.
Moving on to acting.
So obviously with this being an indie film the actors aren't going to be as well known.
So we'll go I'm going to list off everyone because the cast list is fairly short.
But we're going to just be talking at least I'm going to be talking just about the main
three or four characters.
Same here.
So starting off with Gabriel.
Gabriel was played by Zach Elias.
May was played by Dara Batista.
Oh geez.
Tom was played by Isaiah.
I'm pretty sure it's I think it's Isaiah.
I think that's just another way to spell Isaiah.
Isaiah?
Yeah.
Oh I feel absolutely foolish.
No I could be completely wrong.
That makes a lot more sense.
I could be completely wrong but I just feel that's another way to spell it.
Yeah so Tom was played by Isaiah Jowin.
Fuzzy was played by Amor Sue.
Mike was played by Valentino De Rosa.
Gabriel's mother was played by Rosemary Beard.
Samson was played by Bo James Morgan.
Louise was played by Kathy Peters.
Angie was played by Katherine Thompson.
Maddie was played by Ashley Crawford.
Mr. Jones played by Kevin Longley.
Coach Bruce Hakes and male customer Aiden Robinson.
So for acting I mean I threw in the extras in their own like little category and I think
that's kind of what brought it down.
So the acting ended up scoring a 60.
Definitely one of the higher categories that we graded.
Everyone did really well.
Yeah I was actually really surprised for being an indie film.
The acting is pretty good.
Yeah honestly like we said it's an indie film so these aren't like I don't think.
Okay I'm not going to say anything regarding training or whatever but these are probably
not as experienced actors.
So there was a lot of the delivery that was on the dry side and mostly I felt that from
Gabriel.
Yes.
I feel the one that I got the most emotion out of was Tom who was Gabriel's best friend
played by Isaiah and honestly I felt that he had the most emotion when it came to like
who had like the most like energy I would definitely give that to Amor who played fuzzy.
Like man I got was like ready to jump off the screen but I loved it.
But they everyone did like a really good job.
It's just like we said it's an indie movie.
It's just it's not top quality not top Hollywood quality which is not a bad thing at all.
No no it's not.
Like hell honestly some of this acting was better than some Hollywood movies I've seen.
Not going to point fingers.
Easily for one we can point fingers that we can be heroes.
Oh for real though.
Oh my god.
Acting was like a hundred times better than this movie.
Yeah so they everyone did a really good job.
I actually really enjoyed the performance of Dara Batista who played May.
That's I think she.
Yeah if I had to like one two three like my top three she's top of my list easily.
That's completely understandable.
Yeah and then I'd probably give it to Tom after that.
Then honestly fuzzy and Gabriel are tied.
The only thing I would switch about that ranking would I would is I would put for me I'd put
Tom first and then May and then like you said fuzzy and Gabriel are tied for third.
Yeah so I mean you can make the argument either way.
I think it works.
But yeah I think I think Dara did a really good job.
I think she was easily the standout performance.
She just hit all the right notes with me.
Yeah absolute same.
I feel like as you saw her and Gabriel's relationship or not relationship they're like friendship
and then you know like them being band members grow throughout the movie.
Honestly I feel her acting continue to grow throughout the movie.
I absolutely agree.
Yeah can't say enough good stuff.
Like we said it's not top Hollywood quality but it is some really solid acting.
Yes absolutely.
Because of that we're giving it a 60.
Alright next up we got character development which I personally graded Gabriel.
I did as well.
Right and we ended up giving him a 55.
Which.
Oh.
Sorry go ahead.
No I was just.
It's hard to see any sort of arc with him.
It was difficult to find an arc.
It honestly is.
I don't know I felt like you know like at the beginning you know like you find out that
you know like he's at this dead end job he's still living with his mom you know but he
wants to get this band going.
So when he finally gets it off the ground everything starts going well you're just like
okay this is awesome you know like you know like hopefully he's going to end up with May.
He'll move out of his mom's place you know he'll like really start his life.
But then you know at the end it turns out that him and May are long lost siblings.
You don't see if he actually did move out of his mom's house so really the only arc
that you really see him improve on is that his band actually got somewhere.
Right and it felt like the only really bit of growth that we saw from him is him waking
up on time.
That is true.
Or just a little bit more pep in his step when he woke up.
It was a little on the difficult side to count that as like a full arc because in the end
he was damn near in the same position that he started just good at waking up early.
So I'll give him that.
Kudos to you for that Gabriel.
Yeah it's on the weaker side unfortunately but still better than other arcs that we've
seen.
We can be heroes.
Excuse me.
I think we actually ended up giving that one a little bit higher.
Yeah I'm trying to look back and see what we talked about.
Oh for one Justice League.
One thing else sucked about that movie.
Why did we give Justice League?
We gave Justice League like where did I just pass it again?
We gave Justice League a 54.
Damn.
Okay really quickly I know this has you know since we're on the subject of Justice League
really quickly I want to point out to everybody that the Warner Brothers executives like as
Zack Snyder's Justice League is about to drop on HBO Max next month they came out and said
when Joss Whedon's version of Justice League came out we all knew it was shit but we didn't
want to admit it.
You know what I appreciate you guys.
I appreciate you guys.
Freaking cowards.
I'm finally saying it.
Freaking cowards man.
Yeah going back so 55 actually puts it on the same character development level as Unfriended
which I can absolutely agree with.
No honestly the character development yeah I mean the character development is not horrible
in that movie.
Yeah but it's not super good either.
Yeah there's like it's tough in a horror that's kind of why we changed character development
with horror into the logic because the character development with horror like that category
was murdering was murdering some of the horror movies.
I would love to go back to Unfriended for the logic side because that ending defies
all forms of logic.
But we're not talking about that movie.
Oh my gosh once it counts down the demon actually yeah I know sorry.
So character development 55 it's good ish.
It's just that I feel like there's more depth to Gabriel as a character that could have
been explored and I don't think we quite got to see that unfortunately.
Moving on over to effects this is a movie that doesn't have a whole lot of special effects.
No but there's one effect that I do want to point out just sorry just really quickly Kayla.
Yeah no go ahead.
And this isn't real this has to do with music but this is also like on an effects side is
this is towards when Gabriel first gets the guitar and you know it's him and May and like
there's I think I think it's him and May and they're starting you know like practice and
it's like you start to hear guitar music in the background before he even starts strumming
the guitar and like Kayla pointed out it's not even the right guitar noise of what he
should be playing.
Right yeah it's I like what I really count I counted that more with music and like I count
all audio issues with music.
Oh really?
But I was thinking yeah I was okay yeah but like that makes sense but I was thinking more
of like the transitions and I think there was a lot of transitions that were really
nice like yes there's a lot of them because it's jumping from yes story bit to story bit
but overall like I think they made their their budget work for them especially with like
the locations that they were able to shoot.
For real though oh my gosh gorgeous set locations yeah Rose so bravo so amazing.
Yeah so good like she was able to make a lot of these work for her.
There was there was a couple there was a couple that kind of didn't really work out like when
they're doing their performance of the the first gig that they get that it was supposed
to be at a pub but it looked like it was like outside.
Well yeah we never got to set foot inside the pub it was kind of like right that this
is kind of what I was telling Caleb is that because it kind of took me by surprise that
they're sitting outside warming up and then all of a sudden it cuts to them like already
done with the performance then a guy comes up and was like hey we loved you guys we want
to sign you like wait what they already performed.
Yeah that was one of those things I'm like okay did I completely miss this part or this
part yeah.
So I actually had to I actually straight up rewinded it a couple like a couple minutes
to make sure that I didn't miss anything I'm like no okay so they literally have been sitting
in that location for that long okay.
Yeah it was jarring to say the least but like I said I count the sets I count the transitions
any little special effect kind of situation that they had I think it all looked really
really good.
Absolutely.
Very few issues with them but unfortunately it's just like we're great in this like every
other movie that we watch it's a little bit it's average so we ended up putting it at
a 70.
And that's nothing like we didn't dock anything because of a lack of budget it's just I feel
like the 70 actually for me a lot of that was earned during the the rocky road music
video part.
Oh yeah absolutely that actually looked really good.
Yeah the all the lighting effects that they did like that looked really solid the only
thing that threw me for a loop is they threw in some they threw in some of the actors that
I don't think they needed to like like Gabriel's boss I'm pretty sure he was one of them that
they threw into the music video like that threw me.
Yeah that was kind of something.
Yeah and a few of May's friends were in there and I'm just like wait what?
I kind of find it funny that the boss was in the music video but then at the end when
they're doing like that montage of the newspaper prints the boss sues them for I forget what
reason.
For defamation of character.
Oh yeah that's what it was.
Yeah I thought that was freaking hilarious.
That was pretty funny.
So like we said effects sitting at a really nice 70 the it's honestly like it's so little
to complain about with that part of the movie or that aspect of the movie.
Moving on over to music so Rose you were actually touching upon that a little bit.
There was some audio issues at least for me for me so I was watching the movie and I was
playing the audio through my phone speaker and I had to turn the volume up really loud
to hear the dialogue because it's the music was playing way louder than the dialogue.
Yes throughout this whole movie because I watched it on my phone as well and I had to
have my headphones in and even those had to be at full blast to understand what they were
saying.
Did you have subtitles on?
No.
I didn't either I tried to it just confused the hell out of me because the way that YouTube
did the subtitles for this movie like I'm like it was just like sentence after sentence
it didn't like separate anything of who was saying who so I'm like yeah no this is going
to make this movie way more confusing.
So I actually switched to headphones halfway through when I was just like yeah I'm having
a real difficult time figuring this movie out and it's just it was also really late
at night too so I couldn't have it like too loud.
So I think that the sound mixing could have used a little bit of work and I know from
first hand because like I throw the music in for this podcast.
Sound mixing is a bitch.
It's not fun to do it is super difficult and if you can't get it just right it's going
to come back and screw you in the ass hard.
And honestly that's the aspect of the movie that killed the music for me.
Yeah.
If you take out the sound mixing issues I would honestly be sitting about maybe a seven
a stronger seven a soft eight.
Yeah like a fairly soft eight.
Yeah it's just there were so many audio issues it's just the dialogue was really quiet and
the music was really loud and it was just distracting honestly it was it was like yeah
it was distracting.
So that's kind of why I personally bumped it down to a six and I think you were on the
same same boat.
Yep.
Yeah.
But like overall the like I feel like the soundtrack to this would like would be really
good.
The I'm trying to think what was I just about to say.
Yeah another like what you were talking about the audio didn't quite line up like you got
to see them like strumming the guitars playing on the piano and doing that but very very
few times did you ever hear them do that.
Yes.
And I feel like with a movie about a band you should be able to hear them play and we
only got to hear them play I feel once.
And that was like during the music video aspect of it.
Yeah.
Which I got to give some mad props to whoever wrote that song.
It was it was a pretty damn good.
You know it's really fun.
What's his best friend's name.
Tom Tom.
I was one of the stupidest things that I noticed in this movie is when they first are shooting
their their first music video for YouTube the tripod that he was using.
I was like oh my gosh I have the exact same tripod.
I noticed this.
I that's just me noticing the stupidest the stupidest stuff that I can notice.
But you know he's got good taste.
He's got good taste.
Yeah.
Honestly I'm I might have accidentally talked myself up with music a little bit and I want
your thoughts on this because the soundtrack like it's we already kind of docked it for
I mean you already kind of docked it for the audio lineup right.
The music overall the music overall wasn't bad.
No I think I don't think it's like I said I soundtrack alone and if the audio would
have lined up a little bit better I would have been at a really soft eight.
But I think I'm willing if you're willing to maybe bump music up to a seven.
Yeah I'm up for it.
Let's do it.
Yeah sweet.
I say let's do it.
All right bumping music up to a seven.
All right next up we got costumes.
We ended up giving costumes a six and I mean they were I mean honestly like nothing really
to write home about like nothing.
Yeah I mean it was kind of just normal clothes.
I mean they looked cool.
I'll give them that like they looked pretty cool but it was no like rocket man kind of
costumes.
Yeah like so giving it a six puts it on the same level as a lot of movies.
Like it puts on the same level as unhinged which we reviewed last week.
Same as Better Watch Out, The Oath, Friday the 13th.
There's a lot of movies that it's in line with.
So like I mean what they wore was like fine but it was nothing like that stood out.
It was just you know like just normal clothes which you know you can never argue with normal
clothes because at least they're wearing clothes.
Right.
All right and then that brings us.
All right and then that brings us to our own personal grade.
So Rose I'll let you take this one first.
You son of a bitch.
I knew you were going to.
So I kind of have a hard time giving this one a final grade just because taking away
the kind of like little problems that I had with it.
Overall I did enjoy this movie.
Like it's just just like the plot points were just like a little too fast for me.
I wanted it to slow down just a little bit.
But like overall I did have I did enjoy this movie for what it was.
It was a decent indie film.
Oh gosh damn it.
Because I'm scared if this is going too low for it.
I'm at like a fifty five.
Fifty five.
Shit man.
OK.
You know what.
No.
OK.
A sixty.
OK.
That's a little bit better.
I'm on this.
OK.
Where are you at?
OK.
I'm a little higher than you.
I actually really enjoyed this movie.
I think this had a lot of potential for some really great storytelling because like the
just the premise of the movie itself is really really good.
And honestly I don't think like out of everything that involves a movie I think the least important
aspect to it is the acting.
Like I've watched movies where the acting is just like awful.
But no hold up.
I can't.
The story and the writing have been really good and that kind of helps save the acting
a little bit.
See I'm not torn between that.
That's just me personally.
No no see I can understand that but I'm kind of torn between that because I feel like a
strong acting performance can almost save a movie.
I think it can too.
I think it absolutely can.
But I'm thinking if it's poorly written and it's poorly acted it's more difficult to enjoy
the movie.
And like we discussed it's a good premise.
It's just lacking details.
And the acting it wasn't top quality but it wasn't like god awful either.
So it's kind of sitting in like a weird position with me because it's just I watch this movie
and I see all of everything that it can be.
So I'm sitting at a 65.
Okay not bad.
Like I said I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
I feel like such a dick for saying 55.
I apologize about that.
Yeah 55 is harsh.
I'm sorry.
Okay it's a 60 for me.
A strong 60.
Like I said it just had enough of the right qualities for me to enjoy it.
And like I said I can forgive bad acting with really solid writing and unfortunately that
was just where there wasn't.
That's not where it was for me.
The effects I thought were really good.
The audio had some issues that were distracting but I think those could easily be fixed.
You just need a little bit more time sound mixing.
And honestly from what I've learned about doing this podcast even what I've learned
about sound mixing is you don't need the music as loud as you think you do.
I think like I have learned that over the past couple of videos that I've made.
Yeah and then it's just I really liked it.
I loved like the potential that I thought it had.
So overall I think this was an amazing indie movie.
I think Rose just she has a really bright future ahead of her and I am very much looking
forward to seeing what she comes up with in the future.
Honestly the only note that I have for her is just maybe hire a writer.
That's honestly the only note I have.
Like I think her direction is really well done.
I think she does a really solid job at every aspect of the movie.
Just you need a little you need a sound mixer and you need a writer.
Get those you're you're flawless.
You're golden.
Yeah yeah hell yeah.
So all of that added up so our the average for our personal grade has come to a 62.5.
So the final letter grade for the rocky road to freedom is a D minus.
I'm sorry Rose.
Yeah we're really sorry.
We liked your movie.
Yeah even though it doesn't seem like we did.
We promise you we did.
Yeah it's just it's so it's sitting at a 62.3125 percent which let me see if I can find exactly
where like how.
Gosh I can't freaking see.
Let's see D minus D minus.
Yeah it is just just shy of being a D.
Ah damn.
Honestly what what killed this movie in the grade system was the writing.
That was the lowest score that we gave but a little bit higher on any of these categories
would have bumped you up to a to a higher score.
So overall I think for everything that you were able to accomplish with the budget I
think you did an amazing job and like I said I cannot wait to watch what you come up with
in the future.
Neither can I.
And hopefully you won't hate us and will want us to review those two.
Because we'll be more than happy to.
Please don't hate us.
If it is any consolation at all and hopefully it is kind of you.
This movie is actually two points higher than 50 Shades of Grey.
Bam there we go.
Yeah I don't know if that make that that softens the blow at all.
I hope it does because 50 Shades of Grey sucked.
It's garbage.
And that's the only the only D minus movie that we have unfortunately.
But like I said don't hate us please.
We really liked your movie and we're really excited for your future.
So if you ever want another review we understand if you don't want to go with us.
But we want to.
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Yeah we release every Monday.
Been doing this for how long?
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Well we haven't been releasing Monday since the beginning.
Okay but still we were lucky to release weekly when we first started out.
Okay fair.
But our set release day has been Monday for quite some time here buddy.
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I think we just lost another design this week.
Did another one get reported?
Yeah the freaking live action DC heroes.
Gosh damn it.
I quit.
Yeah that's freaking bullshit.
Well actually no you quit you're the one that creates all these.
Yeah I think I'm on the safe side now hopefully because now I create everything from scratch.
There's not a single thing that I steal from the internet now.
Like everything is like handmade so if anything gets reported.
I need better wifi I'll upload some new designs.
Fight me studios.
Yeah I'll be posting some new designs once I get a better wifi connection.
With the move I don't have the best wifi so once that happens we'll upload some new shit.
When that will happen nobody knows.
Yeah hopefully when I move again.
So next week you guys can look forward to our breakdown of Tom and Jerry which came
out Friday.
Last Friday if you're listening to this on the day that it comes out.
So super excited for that.
Hope you guys are looking forward to it too.
It was released in theaters as well as on HBO Max.
Hell yeah so go check it out.
But until then this has been the All Bros podcast.
I'm Caleb.
And I'm Jonathan.
And we'll catch you guys next week.
Peace.