In The Grey review

Director Guy Ritchie, when his movies don’t star Madonna, tends to make his movies about crime and capers and calamity. His latest movie, “In The Grey”, is no different. This time, instead of an unintelligible Brad Pitt or that guy who played Iron Man playing Sherlock Holmes, we get Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal playing some action and adventure bad-asses named Sid and Bronco, respectively. Their job is to protect big money debt collector and fixer extraordinaire Rachel Wild, played by Eiza Gonzalez. She sells the capital management firm who loaned a billion dollars to a drug boss, who is now not paying the billion back, on her being able to get the drug boss to pay it back. Predictably the drug boss, as drug bosses tend to do, turns this debt collection into a dangerous game of automatic weapons, mines, drones with bombs and booby traps. Ritchie brings his usual well-choreographed action to this movie but is it worth going to the theater to find out what happens? Check out this episode of Movies Merica to find out! “In The Grey” also stars Carlos Bardem, Rosamund Pike, Fisher Stevens, Michael Vu, Mohammed Al Turki, Kojo Attah, James Wong, Kristofer Hivju, Darrell D’Silva, Emmett J. Scanlan, Christian Ochoa Lavernia and Gonzalo Bouza.  

Transcript

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No, this week's movie In the Gray isn't a tale of Liam Neeson's adventures inside the wolf who surely ate him at the end of the 2011 movie The Gray. Nope, instead, In the Gray shows what it would look would look like if Superman teamed up with Donnie Darko as protective badasses to future Wonder Woman Isaac Gonzalez as she tries to make a drug boss payback alone. And you thought those collection agency letters that you get in the mail were aggressive. Isn't the gray worth watching at the theater? Well, find out in this episode of Movies America Live. And yes, it is still technically the weekend. And so it's time to kick back, relax, put your feet up here, because that's what your orders are for Movies America Live. Orders, you know, in a fun, casual sense, right there. But as always, I'm your host, Van Ebert, aka Movies America, and uh I am going to present with you or to you a spoiler-free review of the new guy Richie movie in the gray. So can he get it right this time? I mean, his last few movies have been uh pretty big flops there. So, I mean, is in the gray, is this the one where you know he hits uh hits the pay dirt, you know, if he gets a fortune, so to speak, right there, or is this gonna be just another flop for poor old guy Richie right there? So, man, it's been a long time since you know Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch and all those movies right there back in the 90s and 2000s, right there. But uh, but he's here, yeah, with uh brand new Henry Cavill, Jake Gillenhall movie here uh in In the Gray. Isaac Gonzalez is in it there as well, okay? But real quick, before I get uh too deep into In the Gray, and we are gonna do, we're gonna get in deep. Okay, we're gonna get a little detailed on this movie. Just want to remind you that since this show is live, we do have the live chat available here on both Rumble and YouTube. And so you don't have to just listen to me just ramble on and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah about in the gray. You can get in the live chat and you can at least say hi or uh adios or you know, hola, or bienvenidos, or whatever, right? Uh it's a multicultural, bilingual, or multilingual live chat. Okay, there you go. As we talk about in the gray. But uh, and get getting getting in the live chat costs you absolutely nothing. Okay, barely even cost you any time. But yeah, getting in the live chat there and uh let me say hello. And actually, no, I should probably just bring up the live chat, huh? That's probably a good idea. I'm telling everybody, I'm asking everybody to get in a live chat, and I don't even have the live chat up here to where I can even see if uh anybody is getting in there and whatnot. So, yes. So uh, but get in there and yeah, hey, if you want to talk about In the Gray uh or any Guy Ritchie movie or any Henry Cavill or Jake Gillenhall movie you want, uh ultimately I can't stop you from chatting in the live chat, whatever you want. That also means, that also means that you can distract me in any way that you want through the live chat. You know, so if you're like me and you're all DVs, you're like, yes, let's see what we can do to throw off this this live stream host. All right. If you're an evil bastard like me, uh then you can definitely do that right there. But uh speaking of which here, let me do this here real quick. I'm just gonna do a little multitasking here and uh try to drum up some live chat business up in here real quick. So that is there. And uh, yeah, we'll get over here because I don't want anybody who's in the live chat right now to be all lonely in there, okay? I want uh people to start getting to the live chat and having fun and uh having a good time and all of that stuff right there. And uh speaking of having fun here, part of having fun is of course booze, okay? So here you go. And uh yeah, if you are in the, you know, if you're watching the show right now, hey, feel free to, you know, uh yeah, you know, basically just drink up on whatever you're drinking up on. Obviously, I'm drinking up on a brew ski right here, which I will be talking about here later on at brew review time. But for right now, I'm just gonna take a drink off this real quick, and I invite you to do the same. All right, thank you. Thank you for bearing with me here. I was getting a little parched uh already in the show, and we just started. I'm getting parched already. That is not good. That is not good. But uh, but again, yeah, welcome to my movie maniacs and my fellow freedom-fueled film fanatics. I missed you guys last Sunday. Uh, I had to take that Sunday off there because of a work trip, but I am back here in full force. All right, uh I and conducting Movies America Live business. All right, there you go. Okay, so let's get into some in the gray here, because that's what you guys want to hear about, right? Uh, or maybe not. I don't know, because barely anybody went and saw this movie this weekend. Okay. It was me and uh a couple other dudes. That was about it, probably. I think this movie's gonna make about five bucks at the box office here. But even though, even so, it was directed by Guy Ritchie, who's you know, made a lot of classics, like I was always talking about before, you know, Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels. Uh he made Snatch. I made The Gentleman. He directed the Aladdin movie a few years back. Uh his last hit was Wrath of Man. Uh he does a lot of movies with Jason Stytham, Jason Stytham playing an action hero. All right. So he does a lot of movies uh with those guys right there. But uh but in this movie it's Henry Cabill, you know, Superman, and hopefully future James Bond. Uh I got Jake Gyllenhaal. Of course, that's Donnie Darko, and uh, you know, uh half-ass uh absolutely no substitute for Patrick Swayze in the role of uh Dalton in the Roadhouse remake. Uh of course, you know, he's been in great movies uh like Nightcrawler and uh just an ambulance uh you know, Michael Bay movie. And uh yeah, but a lot of movies. Uh we're not gonna mention Broke Back Mountain here. No broke broke back mountain here, um, as I just mentioned that. So, but all right, anyway, I defeated my whole my whole point right there. But uh we also have Isaac Gonzalez in this, uh we've got uh Javier Bardem's brother Carlos, who I've never even heard of, this Carlos Bardem guy. Uh, you know, we've got Torman Giants Bane from uh Game of Thrones uh in this movie as a baddie. So and if you've never seen Game of Thrones, you have no idea who I'm talking about when I say Torman Giant's Bane, but it's all good here. But real quick, instead of hearing me, you know, yap about in the gray right here, let's uh let me give you a little visual aid here uh with the trailer.

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Well, Gary into my office. There is a situation here. I assure you you'd like to listen. The alternative is very expensive.

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Gary! Get them out of my office now. Gary. A moment. There are two versions of how this narrative plays out. Exhibit A.

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Gary waits patiently and quietly by the door. Exhibit B. Gary steps forward and you spend the next six hours sponging him off the walls. I know which version Gary would prefer. Gary. Manny Salazar.

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He's not really the guy you loan a billion dollars and expect to see it back.

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You think you can recover it? You know I can.

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When mistakes are made, you need insurance.

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Kids, don't say a word. Follow me.

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Bronco and Sid will now solve it their way. Love the shirt. It's Silk. I just told you. It's Silk.

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This is Salazar's pilot. The police are on payroll. And he has a reasonably experienced private army. Take every book, take every tuck, loop every wheel, take every step. Three, two, one.

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Range 300. Weight 275. Make your mind up. 250. Ramage in it.

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They work between the moral and the immoral.

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The black and the white.

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They operate in the gray.

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I foresee a problem. I am aware that there is a 300 foot deep untraversable ravine. But if you give yourself enough runway, build up some speed, and flap your arms like so. It should take the bump out of the landing.

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All right. So, yeah, as you see right there, we got Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal, you know, making some funny in that movie there. They're uh, you know, playing uh you know partners in action here. Uh they're protecting Isaac Gonzales, and we'll hear more about that a little later on. But uh, yeah, the plot, I mean, the trailer I think did a pretty good job at describing, you know, in broad strokes, the plot where you know you got the drug dealer borrowed money, and of course, in drug dealer, fascia doesn't pay it back. I mean, uh, if you can't trust your local drug dealer, who can you trust, right? I mean, like you would think that they were so reputable that they would pay the money back there. And uh, you know, with a handshake and uh, you know, thank you very much. But you know what? Those cartel drug dealers, those cartel bosses, man, I don't know, they're just not as trustworthy as one would believe, right there. One would expect. But uh, but yeah, it borrows his money, you know, the the the financial firm, you know, that loan him the money obviously wants their money back. But since this guy's a drug lord, you know, they're like, well, we can't exactly knock at his door and say, hey, pretty pleased with sugar on top. Can we have our money back? Because, you know, whoever they send's gonna lose their. Okay. All right. And so they get so Isaac Gonzalez, she goes to the financial firm, you know, whoever loan, you know, whoever loaned the money, and says, hey, you know what? I'll go, I'll get your money back, and so on and so forth. And that that sets off our our plot there, okay? So that that that lights the fuse on the plot of in the gray there. So, all right, we are moving on here. We're gonna talk uh some more in the gray. But let me take another drink off my beer here because I'm trying to motivate you guys to and inspire you guys to, yeah, whatever you guys are drinking up on here, hey, go ahead and uh take a toss off it. So and also to tease brew review time later on, where I will review that very beer uh you just saw right there. Okay. But uh back to In the Gray and more specifically about Henry Cabill. Uh from what I've seen, if you were to take a poll on who should be the next James Bond, uh the vast majority of people would say Henry Campbell should be handed the license to kill. What has helped is that he keeps doing movies where he plays a character who is basically James, you know, James Bond light, right? You know, Jane Diet James Bond, right? Such as like one example is he plays like the suave Napoleon solo character in another Guy Ritchie movie, The Man from Uncle a few years back, or he played the suave secret agent in the abysmal Argyle that came out a couple years ago. And then this Guy Ritchie movie in the gray, where he plays, wait for it, a suave bodyguard named Sid. Now, my man has played, you know, long enough in the James Bond Minor Leagues, man. So it's time to call him up to the show, all right? Come on, let's not waste any time, all right? Let's, you know, yeah, I mean, you know, uh Nuke Lelouche has played enough time, you know, in the minor leagues. Let's let's let's let's call him up to the show here. Let's get let's get uh Henry Campbell in that tux and uh and drinking that uh you know that uh that uh martini shaken, not stirred there, okay? And don't give me that crap about him like being too old now, okay? I mean, before you know, when he was auditioning to play James Bond for the Casino Royale movie that came back in 2006, uh he was too young then. They said he was, you know, he was 23. They said he's too young, or he was too young back in 2006 uh to you know to take the James Bond role instead of Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. Now they're saying he's too old, okay? So it's like, I mean, and he's only a year older than Pierce Brosman was when he did Goldeneye. So so save it. Stow that whole he's too old crap, okay? Now, let's get back to the movie of the moment, okay? And Cavill has a partner in action in this, and that is Donnie Darko himself from back in the day, Jake Gyllenhall as Bronco. Now, Sid and Bronco, you know, we've got Henry Cavill as Sid, we've got Jake Gyllenhaal as Bronco, and just just listen to just listen to the names. Sid and Bronco. So and Sid and Bronco stelled like an 80s detective TV series on CBS, you know, where they they drive a cool car and they wrap up a new case, you know, at the end of every episode, right? So and they do have a stoic chemistry in this together. Cabill usually does bring that stoic, above it all vibe to a lot of his performances. And Jillen Hall, much of the time, plays like quirkier characters. Just, you know, just look like at Jake Gyllenhaal and the movie Oakja. Okay, that's that what uh was that boot, what's that Korean uh director's name? Uh like uh Bong J, but yeah, Bong Jun Ho or something like that. So there's a movie called Oakja, what directed by this Boong Bon Jun-ho or whatever director. And Jake Jillenhall's really, really weird in that movie. And he's also quirky in uh Nightcrawler, a movie that I I feel Jake Jillen Hall should have won Best Actor for, but alas, uh he did not. But here in this movie, In the Gray, Jylan Hall he matches the stoicism that Cabill typically has blow for blow, and it's slightly, slightly interesting to watch. Now, don't get me wrong though, they do have some funny moments in this movie, okay? They they do, you know, bring the jokes, they do bring uh the laughs uh in this right here. And speaking of funny moments, speaking of funny moments, in this video I'm about to play, we do learn about some new names for Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cable. Jillan Hall, Gyllenhaal. It's Gyllen.

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It's Gyllenhaal. It's Gyllenhaal. Is that right? That's right. Okay, because people, is it particularly in Britain people have problems with your name? Yeah, I I I mean I I I have run into a couple people, usually under the influence, who have pronounced it, you know, not in the right way. You know, um a particular drunk woman once came up to me and and thought that my name was Jay Googleballs, which we I knew I had made it then.

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What was your nickname at school? Uh my nickname at school was Fat Cavill. Which was a very apt nickname, uh, considering my name was indeed Cavill, and I was indeed fat. How lardy were you? Um, I mean, I I my dad always said from the age of about 13, I stayed the same weight until I was 25. I just got taller. Okay, so you were enormously fat at 13. Um, I I don't know about enormously fat. You were morbidly obese. You could have died. Right.

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So obviously, that interview right there, if you see who's on the couch, it's Henry Campbell, Amy Adams, and uh and Russell Crowe there. So I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that was a uh interview on the Graham Norton show uh for Man of Steel right there. I know it's uh totally crazy and whatnot. Just happens to be those are the three stars of Man of Steel right there. So that interview was uh from a few years ago. And uh, but yeah, you know, hey, who knew? Jake Googleballs, which is what I'm gonna start calling uh calling Jake Gillenhall from now. Hey, Jake Googleballs, hey man, great new movie right there. So and I talk like I see Jake Gillenhall in real life uh there. But uh we had Henry Cavill there, and he was uh called Fat Cavill in uh back in school, right, you know, right there. And you know what? I guess that's only uh the one and only commonality between Henry Cavill and me, because there we have absolutely nothing uh else in common except for maybe no, no, don't even have not even close in the looks department right there. So, but Henry Cavill, I am jealous, you you beautiful Boston. All right. But uh, but yeah, I mean I was fat, you know, in junior high, and then I I I basically sprouted up uh in height, and then my fatness went away. So it sounds like Henry Campbell the exact same thing uh right there. But uh hey, speaking of Henry Cavill, uh, we got my man, Mr. Scott Awesome in the live chat on the Rumble side mentioning Mr. Cavill here uh being a Highlander. I know I can't wait, man. That that Highlander movie with Henry Campbell looks looks choice, looks so, so sweet uh there. And it doesn't hurt that it's directed by the same guy who's directed uh pretty much all the John Wick movies, Chad Stahelski, a former stunt man right there. And then it's got uh it's got to Dave Bautista, I think, playing the Kurgan, and then uh Karen Gillen uh playing uh Henry Campbell's like wife back in uh you know the Scotland days right there. Uh Karen Gillen, you guys might not recognize the name, but uh she played um oh what's her face is she played um um she was in uh the Guardians of the Galaxy movie there. She what's uh oh god, what's that character's name right there? Uh Chris Pratt's girlfriend in cr in uh Guardians of the Galaxy. So and somebody in the live chat can remind me about it. But Karen Gillen was in Guardians of the Galaxy, and she's been in like the she's been in like the new Jumanji movies as well. But anyway, but back to Highlander. Highlander, oh hell yeah, it's gonna be so sweet. Uh and they they they picked a perfect uh you know guy to play uh McLeod uh there in that. So and Mr. Scott also asked, do you think Jason Jason Stytham uh would be good in a Bond parody? Well, I think he I think I think he would. I mean, he's already kind of done that in the movie Spy uh that came out a few years ago. Uh Spy came out. Uh it was directed by the same guy who did like, Hey, Don't Hold Us Against. Well, no, let me let me let me back up. It's directed by the same guy who did the fantastic comedy Bridesmaids, and then right after he did Bridesmaids, he did the movie Spy with uh with uh Melissa. Why can I not remember names today? My God. Uh Melissa McCarthy, there you go. Melissa McCarthy uh was in it, but Jason Statham uh played like a spoof on on his his action heroes that he plays in movies, but he he kind of played it like in a James Bond kind of way, right there. And so yeah, check out Spy uh if you haven't already, Mr. Scott Awesome. That movie is freaking hilarious uh with Jason Statham and Melissa McCarthy and uh Jude Law's in it uh there as well. But Spy is fantastic there. But uh but anyway, back to In the Gray here. And now, as you saw on the trailer, Isa Gonzalez is in the movie there, and she brings her typical like don't fuck with me energy that she brought to previous roles in movies like Baby Driver, an underappreciated movie. See Baby Driver if you haven't seen it. Don't don't don't be scared away by the title. Don't be uh ignore the title. Great action movie, Baby Driver. And also she was in the movie Ambulance, uh, which is a Michael Bay movie that I think I just mentioned earlier, uh, in which she co-starred with Jylan Hall or Google Balls uh in that one too. And she's a big money debt collector/slash fixer for hire in in the gray. Her name is uh Rachel Wilde, and uh she needs cavals and Jylan Hall's muscle because she collects debts from some real billionaire scum. All right. No, no, no. Bill Bill Gates is not in this movie, okay? Though the island that much of the action takes place on in this movie might resemble a certain island that old Bill Gates used to visit there. So that might be the one similarity or the one connection right there. So uh yeah. Um uh yeah, Mr. Scott Awesome, you're right there. Yeah, you definitely gotta check out Spy there and have to check out uh the trail. The trailer gives you a taste of taste of the funny. Okay, we've got some more in the gray to talk about real quick here. And to that end, the main problem, the main problem that I have with In the Gray is it contains a lot of setup, and I mean a lot of setup, okay? Sid and Bronco almost completely described everything that we see towards the end of the second act and all of the third act in the first act, okay? Now the Oceans movies, and Oceans 11, Oceans 12, you know, the George Clooney Brad Pitt movies, they sort of do the same thing, you know, in those movies, but they do it in a more fun way, and they usually throw like a wrinkle in there somewhere when they're actually executing uh the plan in the oceans movies, okay. I honestly, I mean, I'll be honest with you, I honestly was dozing off a little when these guys were doing their breakdown of everything because I knew it was just a breakdown and it wasn't really happening. Okay, you they're they're doing more telling and showing there. Also, the plot gets a little convoluted, so definitely don't doze off like I did. By the time we were in the late second act, I felt like I'd missed some crucial events due to the aforementioned napping there. So, yeah, invest in some, you know, like five-hour energy if you need to uh during this movie, you know. Maybe do that thing where you take a cigarette lighter and you're like kind of burning that you're burning your hand to stay away. No, no, no. I'm kidding. Don't do that. All right. I do not, I do not uh endorse burning your hand just to stay awake for this movie. Trust me, this movie is not worth it, okay? Um and it also didn't help that the big baddie, a drug boss named Salazar that they mentioned in the trailer, played by Javier Bardem's brother, Carlos, is pretty forgettable, okay? Poor old Carlos just doesn't have near the amount of magnetism that his brother has when playing a villain. Okay, so like you know, when Javier Bardem, you know, was in No Country for Old Men, or you know, he's played other bad guys, like he was a he was a he was a drug boss in collateral with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx right there. And old Carlos just doesn't have his brother Javier's you know uh magnetism and just you know appeal when he's playing a villain. So you're not very intrigued and enraptured by the threat of a bad guy who's just a cookie cutter cartel creep. Okay. Now his main henchman, uh talking about the drug boss here, the main the drug boss's main henchman is played by Christopher Hivju or a Hju or something like that. I've never figured out like how to pronounce that guy's last name, for God's sakes. Basically, he's he's Tormin Giants Bane from Game of Thrones, playing yet another henchman as he has in other movies. And he's also not very interesting. They should have brought in Jon Snow for his henchman character to kind of bounce some hilariously filthy lines off of, you know, to maybe make him more interesting, all right. In the action, of course, this is an action movie. We gotta talk about the action. It's it's serviceable, okay? I mean, the gunplay is mid-level, nothing we haven't seen, you know, before in a million other movies or TV shows. You do have to hand it to Sinner Bronco that they do have a good plan, though, and and those two at least do a good job of executing it. Okay. One of their team doesn't execute it so well, one of their team members doesn't execute it so well. And in that, it just feels forced in awkwardly just to try to drum up some emotion in this otherwise very, very clinical movie. Now, Richie has had better action in his own movies, like you know, like Wrath of Man with Jason Statham, that you know, my man, Mr. Scott Awesome, was talking about. Surprisingly, though, the bald badass doesn't make an appearance in the gray right here. So I was completely uh surprised by that because it seems like Jason Statham is pretty much in every single uh Guy Ritchie movie. Well, not every single guy richie movie, but you know, you get my point. There you go. So all right. Well, you know what? I'm getting really, really thirsty, and I bet my man, Mr. Scott Awesome, is really looking forward uh to this segment right here. And uh if I say I'm if I say I'm getting really thirsty and I'm about to switch to another segment, well, of course, we have to know that it is brew review time. All right, so let me introduce you to the brew for today's brew review time. And uh yeah, this is uh a little uh, you know, good morning Vietnam beer here. It's coming to us uh from Hanoi, uh, or if you want to I was about to say Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh City, but that's Saiga on there. So but uh but yeah, Hanoi here, the Hanoi beer. And uh this is actually uh brought to us by the third largest beverage company in Vietnam. Not the second, not the first, but the third, okay. And uh of course it's headquartered in Hanoi, uh, hence the name of the beer. And in true Vietnam fashion, it is a state-controlled company that operates uh the brewery that uh that creates this particular brew right here. And you know what? This Hanoi beer, it's been around for just a wee little bit. Okay, it's been around for a minute. Uh specifically, it's been around since 1890. Yes, absolutely, 1890. And uh so this is their premium beer. So we got a Hanoi beer, but it's their premium beer, as you see right there. Uh, we also they also uh they also produce like a standard lager, uh, and then they have this thing called like a Trukbach beer. I don't know if I'm even saying that right. And then they have Hanoi, let me say that again, Hanoi Bold and Hanoi Light. Okay, but this particular one is the premium beer, and this comes to us at 4.9 alcohol by volume or 4.9% ABV. And uh yeah, this has got like a nice little light crisp flavor profile to it here, okay? This is not a the heavy drinking, a thick drinking beer whatsoever. Okay, it's like a good lighter drinking beer that, you know, hey, what do you say? You know, maybe you're uh maybe you've you know been out there in the old rice patties of Vietnam, you know, and you're just you've been working hard, you're working your butt off for like, you know, a good eight hours. You're like, you know what, it's time to cool off, man. Hey, does anybody have any Hanoi uh premium blogger over here? Oh, you do? Sweet. So yeah, you're just gonna refresh yourself with some of this right here after you know a few hours in the old rice patty there, or if you're sweating your sweating your cojones off, walking through Hanoi, and uh you grab yourself this Hanoi premium beer. I'm, you know, I'm a fan. I'll recommend it. It's not bad whatsoever. I mean, it's not gonna blow your skirt up or anything like that, but it's also not bad enough to where I can't recommend it or anything like that. Okay. Now, as you know, I also like to let you know what kind of foods that this beer would pair very well with. And of course, the foods that it would pair well with are a lot of Vietnamese, you know, a lot of Vietnamese kind of foods or or um, you know, like you know, Asian food, that kind of thing, right? Like, like uh grilled pork noodles, uh Vietnamese spring rolls, uh little, you know, little uh beef or chicken pho, okay. So if you ever like, you know, pha, basically it's soup, okay. Uh spicy Thai or Sichuan dishes, this beer would wash those kind of those kind of dishes down uh very, very well with right there. And I do believe that uh we've got you know we've got uh squid. All right, if you're a big squid fan, it would wash that down very well. Prawns, you know, fried chicken, I mean, uh, you know, light tacos. I mean, this this beer right here pairs with a lot of good food uh here. So and I'm making myself, I'm making myself hungry. I'm I'm making myself famished by mentioning all this food. So I'm gonna stop mentioning food, okay, and uh go ahead and talk more about like, you know, the uh well actually I'm not even gonna talk about this beer anymore. I'm just gonna take a good old uh drink off this bad boy, okay? Because uh that's what we do here. That's part of what we do here at Brewerview Time. Excellent. All right, so I'm gonna set that down right there. And uh, yeah, so if you want to get your hands on some of this Hanoi Premium Logger, you know, you can go to a place like uh Open Bar, the Open Bar app on your phone. Uh I think it's available for you know iOS and Android now. Uber Eats, if you're in an area that has this beer available, you know, and then also we've got like the good the website gopuff.com. GoPuff.com. It just specializes in like getting beers that are nowhere near to you, actually delivered to your front door there. Now you're gonna pay some, you're gonna pay handsomely for that. You're gonna pay some scratch, okay, for gopuff.com, and that's spelled G-O-P-U-F-F, gopuff.com, to deliver that that beer to you. I mean, but you know, yeah, if you live in uh Lexington, Kentucky, and you want some beer, you know, from from Vietnam, hey, you know what, there you go. You could uh get on gopuff.com and get that delivered to you right there. And uh, you know what? Again, it's gonna cost you some money, but you will have Hanoi Premium Lager in your hands here. There you go. But uh, yeah, I would recommend this beer. Check it out and uh yeah, you know, down yourself some uh Vietnamese spring rolls or fried chicken with it. But uh anyway, I think I've belabored this point long enough, and so it's time to wrap up this brew. Review time. And uh just to let you know, I do have some random thoughts about uh, you know, this new Guy Ritchie movie in the gray. And my first random thought is this movie actually finished shooting in 2023 and just couldn't find a distributor for it. I mean, somebody to just distribute this movie in the you know in the movie theaters right there to take on the responsibility, the financial responsibility for it. They just couldn't find anybody, you know, to take this movie that it was all filmed, until wrapped up, and spread it out to the masses, all right? Not even the streaming services wanted this movie in the gray. And this movie beats the hell out of most of the assembly line action movie Drek you see go straight to Netflix or Amazon Prime. I mean, like, for an example, see War Machine with Alan Richson on Netflix or you know, the Amazon Prime Roadhouse remake with Gyllenhaal, uh, you know, for just some prime examples of just turds, some action movie turds that you see on the various streaming services there. I mean, it's hard to believe that a movie with the star power of Cavill and Google Balls. I mean, uh, I mean, sorry, Jillen Balls are Gyllenballs. That's funny too. Uh, or Gyllenhaal, and a director like Guy Ritchie wouldn't at least get snatched up by the streaming services, but you know what, try to make sense of the movie industry and you'll go cross-eyed quick, okay? Now, another random thought I have is Guy Ritchie better be careful because he could wind up in an orange jumpsuit in movie jail if he doesn't stop making failing movies, okay? I mean, he hasn't had a successful movie at the box office since 2021's Wrath of Man, and he's had three flops since then, okay? And in the gray, Shirley will be, unfortunately, it's going to be flop number four, okay? Because in the gray, it opened well, well below box office expectations. I mean, this thing is in the basement. All right, this thing is in the basement of the basement, down in the, down like in the in the sewer drain. I mean, that's how low uh this came in at at the uh box office uh this weekend. I mean, it came in even lower than a couple others of those, like a couple of those other flops that I talked about here, or just mentioned here a minute ago. It came in even lower than the Covenant, which had Jake Gyllenhall in it as well. And then the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which had Henry Cavill in it as well. Uh I mean, it came in at number nine at the box office in its opening weekend this past week or the weekend we're we're still in. Even getting beat out by the re-release of Top Gun, a 40-year-old movie. I mean, an extremely beloved movie, but 40 years old nonetheless. Okay, so unfortunately for Guy Ritchie, yeah, he's about to have his fourth flop in a row here with In the Gray. And uh, I mean, I I would say that that's at least in part due to the way that they marketed this movie. Okay. Now, I thought I saw it marketed like, you know, before when I go to see the movies at the theater, I saw the trailer for this all the time. Um, you know, if you watch, if you get on YouTube, you know, you see the ad banners for in the gray all the time. Uh, but I mean, maybe that's just personalized to me. I don't watch a lot of network TV. I don't like watch sports on TV or anything like that, you know. So, um, you know, at least this time of year. So I don't know. I mean, it sounds like there wasn't a whole lot of in the gray, like, you know, trailers or ads on TV or anything like that, or if people watch cable, uh, which I don't watch a whole lot. So it sounds like it just had terrible marketing. And so that's you know, that's part of the reason, yes, you do get beat by 40-year-old Top Gun, okay, in your opening weekend uh there. And give me, don't get me wrong, I love me some Top Gun, but it beating a brand new movie, but I don't know. What do you what are you gonna do there uh here? I mean, Guy Ritchie just falling on hard times uh up in here with this box office here. But uh anyway, those are just a couple of random thoughts that I had about in the gray right there. Okay, but uh time to move on. All right, and I just wanted to let you guys know that this Sunday show you're watching right now here, Movies America Live, is not the only show that I do each week. I also do a show on Thursday nights where I talk about the same movie that I'm talking about right now here on the Sunday show, but I talk about it and I don't worry about if I drop spoilers or not. Okay, now this is the spoiler-free review show, Movies America Live, but my show on Thursday called Movies America Spoiler Warning, that's the show, that's the show where I talk about the same movie that I'm talking about today, but you know, where I'm not worried about spoilers. And you know what? I also even just, you know, I do you the courtesy of even in the title of the show, letting you know, hey, there's gonna be there potentially could be spoilers in here. I mean, that's why I called the show Movies America spoiler warning right there, okay? Because I'm looking out for you, okay? Um, but uh yeah, but you can still watch that show on Thursday night. Um, or not, you know, I mean, if if you don't want the movie spoiled, uh kind of passively watch it, is what I mean. So you can click the link for the show on Thursday, but just mute the show, okay, if you don't want to have the movie uh spoiled. And if you don't, totally understandable. Totally, I totally understand that right there. But it still helps this guy out, still helps me out if you click on the link to watch the show on Thursday and then just mute it, and because it still counts as watch minutes for me, like the number of minutes people watch the show, okay, is what I mean. And so, yeah, so on Thursday, Thursday morning, more specifically, uh, the links for the Thursday show, uh, Thursday night show will come out. Probably the easiest way to find it is if you go to my Movies America X account, okay? Or you go to my uh like my Movies America Facebook group or Facebook uh page, and you can find the links on Thursday morning uh there. And then on when the show comes on, which it probably would help if I let you know what time the show comes on on Thursday night, uh then yeah, click on the link to fire up the show. And so the show comes on at 7 p.m. Eastern, uh 6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain, and 1 p.m. Pacific. Okay. So whichever of those times uh that you find yourself in, or you know, if you if you're like in uh you know, if you're in uh Berlin, Germany, I don't know what time the show comes on there, but you know, you can you can Google and figure out the time it comes on. But when the time comes, yeah, just click on uh the Rumble or YouTube link and uh yeah, just mute the show if you don't want to, you know, if you haven't seen the movie and you don't want it spoiled. Or he, hey, even better yet, uh, if you have seen the movie and uh you want to not just you don't want to just passively watch the show, you actually want to actively watch the show and engage in the live chat, hey, fantastic. Go ahead and do that very thing. But even if you don't want the show uh spoiled here, that's the main point I'm trying to make, please click on the link to start the show up and mute it. That's what I do with like a lot of shows. If I don't have time to watch it, but I want to help my buddies out, like other buddies that have shows on Rumble or YouTube, and I want to help them out with the number of minutes people watch the show, you know, help out the stats and their and their algorithm and all that. What I'll do is I'll click the link to start the show up, and then I'll just mute it because I'm too busy like doing something out in the other room, and I unfortunately don't have time to watch it, but I'm still helping out my friend, and it costs me no money whatsoever to do that very thing right there. Okay, so but again, real quick as I wrap this up here mercifully, as some people are probably thinking, uh yeah, just the times for the show on Thursday night again are 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central, 5 p.m. Mountain, and 4 p.m. uh Pacific on Thursday night. And actually, I misspoke. Not time to wrap it up, just time to move on. Uh, there we go. All right. But uh yeah, we've got some more in the gray to talk about. That is for sure. But let me double check, make sure that the show didn't like go off the air here. Uh, because I get I just got something that made me think like, did I lose the show here? Uh no, I think we're gonna we're still good. We're still good. And uh and my man, Mr. Scott Awesome, in a live chat, would let me know if suddenly the show went bye-bye or something like that, or the show froze up or something like that. But anyway, but uh now uh it's time for the segment that is some people's uh favorite segment on the Sunday show. And uh that is a segment uh where I tell you that the movie for the week is a woke after school special, okay? Now, to people that are as old as I am, uh when I say walk after school special, that means something to them because I know what an after school special is, okay? But uh there might be, you know, some some young whippersnappers watching the show right now who don't drink prune juice like I do, who don't know what an after school special is, okay? And so I'll just explain that real quick to you just to give you some context as far as like what the the title of this segment, Wolk After School Special, actually is signifying there. And so in the late 70s, early 80s, and and somebody tell me if these were on in the 90s too, but there were these shows called after school specials, and they came on, hence the name, after school. Okay, kids would come home after school at whatever time, and uh they'd run in and uh you know just be like those old TV commercials. Hey mom, we're home from school. Can we have some sunny day? You know, and you run in and you're like, I don't want to do my homework yet. I want to turn on Gilligan's Island or I want to watch Duke's Hazard, or you know, I want to watch Rugrats or something like that. I can't wait to watch. And then you turn on the TV, and it's on instead of Rugrats, you know, all of a sudden there's this after-school special show coming on. And what after school specials are all about, they're all about uh like teaching kids valuable lessons. You know, like don't smoke, don't drink, you know, don't get on a, you know, when some strange, creepy guy rolls up in your neighborhood in a van with no windows, claiming to sell ice cream and looks like Joe Biden, like whatever you do, run as fast as you can the other way, okay? Like valuable lessons, okay, like that. Okay, so so these after school specials, they got their heart in the wrong in the right place. It's just they're extremely cheesy and corny, even for back then, okay. And so that's that's that's enough of letting you know like what our after school specials are. But back to this segment here, and so this the whole point of the segment is I want to let people know so they don't waste their money and their time, whether the movie this week, in this case, in the gray, is a woke after school special, okay? And I have great news for y'all. I have great news for the masses, all right? Sing it from the mountaintops right here. No, in the gray is not a woke after school special. Thank God. Okay, that's one of its perks, okay? It's got some cons about it, it's got some, it's got some downside to this movie, but one of the upsides is that this movie is not a woke after school special. Now, in the gray, it features a couple of women in like clerical positions of power, but you know, they don't do that thing where they're portrayed as like these little lithe, little 110-pound women beating the crap, you know, out of like 15 200 pound men all attacking him at once, right? You know, like you see in a bunch of movies, uh a lot of stupid ass movies, you know, where they're like, you know, like girl power. Okay, like this little bitty, little bitty thing, you know, little bitty thing, like a little light, little, little thing that, you know, if you if if there was a you know a steady wind. Probably blow her across the room right there. But you know, you got these big, muscle-bound, no-neck, you know, guys coming in, you know, they're all trained up as well, but she's somehow beating the living crap out of all these, you know, these guys coming out at her and attacking her at once right there. Just true, stupid ass girl boss stuff right there, okay? And there is no contrived, awkwardly forced, unintentionally hilarious girl boss garbage thrown into this movie whatsoever. So it's fantastic, okay? I don't think Guy Ritchie, the director again, I don't think Guy Ritchie would actually believe that or even put up with girl boss crap like that. Okay. So, and again, I'm not being sexist, I'm just being real, okay? Come on. A little 110-pound woman there, and she's taking on 15 guys all weighing 200 pounds and whatnot. Come on. All right. That to me, I've if I was a woman, I would be insulted. Like, really, you're you're expecting me to believe that right there? Okay, so um, and sure, Isa Gonzalez's facial expression range, you know, that she employs in this movie, you know, to try to come off, you know, as a super serious intellectual girl boss makes Bree Larson and Captain Marvel look like Meryl Streep, but that's not woke. None of that, nothing about that is woke. That's just joke acting, not woke acting. Okay, so so all that to say is yes, uh there are uh there is uh yeah, there's no woke in this movie, and so that's fantastic. And you know, Guy Ritchie seems like that kind of director that is not gonna put up uh with woke garbage uh in his movie. And hey, look at this Mr. Scott Awesome coming through as usual, saying after school specials ended in 97. Okay. So they were still on as late as that in 97. Okay, gotcha. So there you go. Well, thank you for the valuable information right there, Mr. Scott Awesome coming in in the clutch right there. Absolutely right there. Okay. So, all right, but again, yeah, uh this movie, not a woke after school special, right there. Okay, so all right, let's move on. All right, there we go. We're getting ready to get really close here to wrap it up the show here. Uh here about this new Guy Ritchie movie here in the gray. Okay, and it's spelled gray G-R-E-Y, but I think it's just because uh, you know, it's spelled incorrectly the British way, because Guy Ritchie is a Brit here. So uh, but uh yeah, that's uh that's that's uh a little background behind the the title of the movie. I didn't say it was interesting background, I just said it was background. Um but my final thoughts about In the Gray is as I mentioned before, I mean, not even the streaming services would distribute uh in the gray, so just wait until this movie comes out on a streaming service to bother watching it. I mean, whether to spend your hard-earned money and precious time going to the theater to see this is not in the gray. It's a very black and white, don't bother to go see this at the theater, okay? So there is no gray area, there's no hemming and hawing from me, uh, nothing like that. Okay, no, it's a very black and white, don't waste your time and money going to see this at the theater. It is just not worth it whatsoever. Okay, just wait until it comes out, you know, on Netflix or Peacock or whatever, you know, uh streaming service uh you have or streaming services that you have. It's just not worth uh checking it out at the theater. And apparently uh a lot of people uh felt that same way. They they they they uh subscribed to that same sentiment because, like I said, uh this movie came in at number nine. Okay. And it's a brand new movie. It came in at number nine uh for the box office right there. So I mean that is sad. That is like some some uh prices right loser horns kind of stuff going on right there.

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Okay. Uh but what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? So but uh real quick, uh as I get ready to wrap up the show here, uh just want to ask you if you would if you would follow uh Movies America, if you'd follow uh this guy right here on uh platforms like X. I'm on X under at Movies America, of course. I'm on Facebook, I have a at movie or I have a Movies America page and group on Facebook. I also just have my Van Ebert profile on Facebook. So if you don't follow or subscribe or join or like or just say hi there, that'd be fantastic. Uh I'm on Rumble there, of course. I've got three Movies America accounts on Rumble. So if you would just follow all three of those, that would be fantastic, okay? I'm on Gab if you're a Gab guy or Gab girl. Uh I'm also on Instagram. I'm on the gram. Okay. That's not really, I don't have put a whole lot on Instagram right there just because it's okay. Uh, but you know, but I'm on there. 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Send them a link to that page that has all that on there to your family, your friends, anybody that you suspect is in the movies. Um another another instance where the spoiler-free reviews come in handy in particular are, you know, you know, I know a lot of you have Netflix and Amazon Prime and Peacock and you know, and all the other streaming services, uh, you know, Hulu. And so, you know, you get on air and your algorithm is is rep you know recommending movies to you and all that stuff right there. And sometimes you just don't know if a movie is good, okay? And so what I would recommend is if as as you're going through the algorithm and you see a movie that kind of catches your eye, and you're like, God, I don't know, the thumbnail makes it look good, but that's what a thumbnail is supposed to do. It's supposed to make a movie look good, but this thing could be a cinematic turd for all I know. If only had a way to find out the common man perspective, the regular guy perspective, as far as whether this movie is good or not. If only, hmm, well, you know what? Your prayers have been answered because all you gotta do is go to Rumble or YouTube, type in Movies America and the name of that movie, and there's a pretty good chance that uh I have reviewed that movie right there. A spoiler-free reviewed it, I should say. And uh yeah, it fire up that episode of Movies America. Now, I get it, my my episodes are like, you know, you know, hour or so long, okay? And who wants to who wants to sit to an hour-long episode just to find out if a movie is good or not, right? Totally don't blame you there. So what I would do is in the episode, just fast forward to like, you know, minute 50, minute 55, okay. And that's typically where I have my final thoughts about the movie. And yes, save yourself, you know, wasting two, two and a half movies of your or two and a two two and a half hours of your time watching a totally terrible movie when you could have just went and looked for my episode about that movie and found it if it was good or not ahead of time. There you go. So that's uh just you know a handy situation where my movies, America Live episodes come in handy. All right. Okay, so I am getting ready to wrap up this episode. But again, thanks everybody for watching. And as always, get out there, people. Those movies aren't gonna watch themselves. See ya.