The Bobby Bones Show - BONUS: Movie Mike's Movie Podcast: Actors Who Really Sang In Movies + Actors Who Tricked Us With Lip-Syncing + Movie Review: Molly’s Game

Episode Date: July 25, 2020

In this episode, Movie Mike looks movies featuring actors playing a character who is singing on screen. He breaks down some famous actors whose real voices were actually featured in movies. And then breaks down actors who had someone else do the singing parts. Mike also reviews Molly’s Game which was highly recommended to him by Lunchbox of the Bobby Bones Show.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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where every single week I just talk about movies, whether it's behind the scene stuff. Sometimes they'll have directors or actors on. But this episode in particular that I wanted to share with you guys was one where I researched the topic about actors and if they're really singing in the movies you've seen them in or not. So everything from like Walk the Line to the movie Selena, all these movies where they're singing in the movie,

I researched and found out if it's their music, voice or if it's a different person actually doing the singing. So it's a bit of movie history, also a bit of music history. I thought you guys maybe find this episode enjoyable. And if you end up liking this episode, be sure to subscribe to my podcast to get brand new episodes every single Monday. All you have to search is movie mics wherever you're listening to this right now. Hit that subscribe button, hit that follow button and you get brand new episodes every single

week. And the other thing I like to do is get you guys involved on the episode. So I usually tweet something or post on my Instagram at Mike D-Stro. that's Mike D-E-E-E-S-T-R-O and I like to get you guys involved in the topic each week too so follow me there and you'll kind of be a part of the podcast as well but hope you enjoy this episode maybe share it with a friend or posted on your Instagram story tag me on there and I'll repost that too so without any further ado check out this episode everyone and their mother has a podcast one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast a man with so much movie knowledge he's been Basically like a walking IMDP with glasses. From the Nashville Podcast Network, this is Movie Mike's Movie Podcasts. So today we are answering the question. Did they really sing in that movie?

So what I did is I researched a bunch of actors who are in music movies, either biopics or just musicals. And I wanted to find out, did they actually provide the voice in these movies? Or did they get somebody else to come in and sing the parts? You know, how they have like stunned doubles come in and do like the action scenes? Did they do that with the musical part of the movie? So I think it's a lot cooler when an actor can actually sing the part, especially when it's a biopic,

because I think it gives a more raw and real approach to the acting, and it also just looks better and feels more authentic on screen. So I prefer that. But again, if you can lip sync performance just as well, I don't think it takes away a lot from the movie. Like, really what you want to go in and see is the movies, do justice to the artist and do justice to the song. So no matter how they do that, I think it's a win-win.

But I think sometimes we get tricked a little bit to thinking like, oh, look, they sang all the parts in this movie. And it turns out they didn't. So actually, one, I researched. I thought this artist sang the songs in the movie from, like it's a movie from my childhood. And the person is actually a really great singer, but it turns out they didn't provide the vocals.

So I'll get into that one. But what I want to do first is actors who, actually did sing in the movies. Starting off first with Bradley Cooper and a Star is born, which is one of the most recent ones because Bradley Cooper, he directed the film and he kind of just transformed his entire essence in being into being a musician, everything from hanging out with Eddie Vedder from Van Halen to kind of find out

what it's like to be a rock star. But he went really hardcore into taking singing lessons, but not only that, just like pretty much changing his voice. Like he worked with like a speech coach and somebody to train him on how to have that really gravelly voice that he has in the movie. Like, he, like, went all in. So he not only learned how to play guitar for the movie,

he took a guitar lesson from Willie Nelson's son, Lucas Nelson, to actually learn how to play guitar. And I think this gives a really great rawness to this movie. And what takes it up even a step further is that they recorded a bunch of these performances live. Because that's what Lady Gaga wanted. She didn't want to sing to a track, which, of course, you have a pop star like Lady Gaga. of course she's going to sing her own parts. But her request was that she wanted to do them all live.

She thought going in and lip syncing to recorded tracks would take away from the performance, which I feel gives a really, like it works really well in this movie because a lot of it is some like just Bradley Cooper on an acoustic sometimes, or it's them two together performing a duet. And I think having that live chemistry between them too, because it's really great in this movie. Like them two together is perfect. And even them singing like on a. war shows together. It's great. So I'm really glad they did that with this movie. And I think it's cool to find out that Bradley Cooper can actually sing. And I like a lot of songs from this movie. I know

the big one, the number one, is shallow. But there's a song in this movie called Maybe It's Time. And it's just Bradley Cooper in an acoustic. And I think it's my favorite song from the movie. I know everybody's probably a bigger fan of shallow. But like this song, I remember hearing and thinking, I, this is actually a song I would just listen to normally and it was a song off the soundtrack that I would go and just seek out and listen to on my own. If you haven't heard that song, here's a little bit of it. Maybe it's time to let the always die. Maybe it's time to let the always die.

It takes a lot to change, man. Hell, it takes a lot to try. So that's my favorite song from the movie actually written by Jason Isbell. And a really great music movie if you haven't seen it. and if you want to go and watch it now, it's been out of a bit, but I think it's good to watch and know that he's actually singing in this movie. Up next, I want to talk about Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon and Walk the Line, which they both actually sang in this movie.

Not only that, they learned instruments. Like, Joaquin Phoenix learned how to play guitar, and Reese Witherspoon learned how to play the auto harp. And they performed a lot of these together alive. So I think Reese Wetherspoon was pretty nervous about doing this movie because she didn't realize, like, the musical aspect to it, like she was going to have to sing. but she's actually a really great singer and them together sounds really good in the movie and it's hard to believe

how talented both of them are and the fact that they actually sing the songs just kind of makes the movie that much better. So they both did six months of vocal training before they started filming this movie and Joaquin Phoenix, his voice was actually like too high to play Johnny Cash so he was trying to get it down low a little bit

but whenever they were performing and rehearsing with the band before filming they're like, dude your voice is too high we're going to have to take all the songs up like a key. So they made all the songs kind of matched to Joaquin Phoenix's range. And then right before they started filming, I guess he trained himself or somehow his voice got lower. So then they went back and re-learned all the songs in a lower key,

which I think is pretty cool that he was, like, he sounds like Johnny Cash in this movie when singing and he gets like the mannerisms down, everything from just like his onstage like performance and just the way he kind of moves his mouth. I think he did a really great job in that. and I'm kind of glad he was able to get his voice a little bit because I think that would have taken away a bit if it would have been like him singing in a higher pitch. I kind of wonder what that sounded like.

Did it sound just like a higher version of him or did it sound like squeaky? Like, I don't know. But they can both actually really sing. And June Carter Cash actually like approved of Reiths Witherspoon playing her in the movie before she passed away. And it's kind of sad that they didn't get to see this movie, you know, be put out into the world like before they passed away

because I think it doesn't. a lot of justice and I think it's one of the best biopics out there the most authentic feeling and I'm glad they both sang in this movie. All right now I want to talk about Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone and La La Land and they both actually sing in this movie. Before this Emma Stone she did a lot of like Broadway stuff and she sang there and I think they got her to sing in this movie like they didn't know that she was like that greatest singer I don't think that's what they were looking for. I'm not saying she's a bad singer like her performance in this is actually really good and she sounds good.

But they were also looking for more theatrical singing for this musical. So her kind of style already fit that. And I think they kind of looked for her having a rawness and not being super polished, which I think works in this because, I mean, it's a musical. You basically go from acting into straight up bursting into song. You don't have to be a stellar vocalist to be in this movie and do this part well. Same thing with Ryan Gosling, that I don't think he's the best singer, but he can sing in a musical and perform and act really well.

But the thing about Ryan Gosling is He's, I mean, he's done some singing in some of his other movies And he was actually in the Mickey Mouse Club as a kid So like with all like the original like Backstreet Boys Like that was him. Like he was like 12, 13 years old and singing on the Mickey Mouse Club And I actually pulled a clip of him singing Just to kind of get an idea of how talented he was as a kid.

So this is Ryan Gosling like 12 years old singing on the Mickey Mouse Club So he went from that to singing in La La Land And he's just kind of a guy you have to be jealous about. Like, not only is he so good looking, not only can he act so incredibly well, but he can sing too. Like, come on, man. All right, next I want to talk about a movie that I wasn't expecting to like. Now, I've been saying for a while now that I'm not a big fan of musicals,

but I think I'm just not a fan of bad musicals because every good musical I get recommended to, I end up liking. And that was the case with this movie The Greatest Showman. Now, this is a very big musical. It's very elaborate, very loud. but it's very in your face. There's no getting around that it is a musical. So it's really cool seeing Hugh Jackman's range

because not only is he Wolverine, where he plays a really scraggly, you know, macho action star, he goes on to do the greatest showman where he's just this very, like, dominating vocal presence. And he can really sing, like, this is really him singing in this movie. And so much so that he'll, like, do shows and tours

where he performs these songs. And these songs are actually really great. And very uplifting and kind of like, you find yourself singing them around the house. Like, I don't know, like, there was a time in my life where this movie was like kind of in my head the whole time. And I was like, man, that was actually really good. And it's very hard for a musical to kind of break through to me. But I found this one interesting and I found it great how he sang in the movie and the soundtrack is really good.

And a lot of the actors actually ended up providing the voices in this movie. everyone from of course Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zendaya, and even Zach Efron actually sang in this movie. There was only one of the main cast who didn't perform the vocals because she was an opera singer in the movie and couldn't really get that opera voice down. So they had her dubbed in. And that was Rebecca Ferguson who played Jerry Lind in the movie.

And that was more sure that she was playing a really world-renowned opera singer. And it's really hard to kind of mimic that and recreate that. But yeah, Hugh Jackman, really talented guys. So not only did he sing in this movie, but he went through like 10 weeks of dance rehearsal to be able to perform all those dance numbers. So a pretty incredible performance here. And if you watch it, know that, yep, it's actually him singing. He is that talented. All right.

So the last one I want to talk about is Rocket Man, where Tarrant Egerton played Elton John in the movie. And he actually provides the singing voice in this. And I don't know why, but I have a little bit of a problem with Rocket Man, the movie. because Elton John had a lot of input on this movie. And the fact that he's still living, I feel takes a little bit away from like the story in this movie. And don't get me wrong, like Elton John iconic musician, he'll go down in history is one of the greatest.

And I'm not taking anything away from his legacy. But I like it when a biopic has as little influence from the artist or even like the artist's family. I like when a biopic comes out that's either, the person has passed away and it's, you know, remembering their legacy or it's later, later, later in their career where it's just like, okay, here's everything that I've done. Like, I like those kind of movies. And it's very rare that happens because their family is going to kind of have an input on

how you portray the character. So it's very rare to get a really raw and straight up what their life was like. But with this one, I just felt he was so involved in it. And the movie was also 20 years in the making. Like he was trying to make this movie 20 years ago, so much to the point. like the first person he wanted to play him was Justin Timberlake and he was actually good to be Elton John and seeing the parts in the movie and at one point Tom Hardy was even like considered for the role

and then they finally decided on Terran who is a lot younger so I thought this movie was okay I'm not the biggest Elton John fan to begin with but I just felt it didn't really tell his story entirely like it wasn't the movie I was ready for yet I would have liked this movie maybe 10 years from now there was just nothing about it that really stood out to me. I think it kind of bought into the hype around when Bohemian Rhapsody came out, which I'll get into later, but I think it was just kind of buying into the biopics and everybody kind of wanting to, you know, put out a movie about themselves. So, but either way, it's cool

that Taryn Egerton actually sang all the songs in this movie and so much so that he wanted to actually look a lot like Elton John, which I think is probably what they got down best. Like he would shave his head to look like Elton John and gave him the receding hair line so much that he actually started losing his hair. So that is commitment to a role. All right, so what I want to talk about next is actors who actually tricked us to thinking that they were singing in a movie, one that probably ruined a movie from my childhood. I'll talk about all those after this. All right, now we'll talk about actors who tricked us into thinking that they were actually singing in movies. So last year, Bohemian Rhapsody was a big movie, and I thought the movie was okay. I felt it was a little bit

rushed, but myself, I wasn't too familiar with Queen's music. So what that movie did for me was really kind of make me familiar with their music and really kind of go back and like listen to them and get into them from that movie. And the thing about Queen and Freddie Mercury is that he has such a distinct voice that they had to do something to make it sound like Freddie Mercury. So Remy Malick, they got him. He wasn't the original choice for that movie. It was actually going to be Sasha Berrick Cohen who was going to play him. But then he backed out of the entire movie because the guys from Queen got so involved in the making of that movie that they wanted, Freddie to die in the middle of it, and then the rest of the movie be about how they recouped and

did the band without him. So that got scrapped. He was like, I'm out. And then they found Remy Malik who had a striking resemblance to Freddie Mercury, and they did some work with his teeth to put in fake teeth to make him have that smile. And the thing is, he didn't sound like Freddie Mercury. So they had to go and find a way to recreate Freddy's voice. Like I said, it's so distinct. So actually what you're hearing in the movie is, is real recordings from Freddie Mercury that they took from live stuff or just studio stuff. But a lot of it is this guy named Mark Martel who actually came in on the radio show on the Bobby Bone Show and performed. And it's crazy to see this guy perform because he came in just him and a piano.

And just from when he was warming up, he did like these little runs that I was like, holy crap, I could close my eyes and picture Freddie Mercury. Like when he was actually playing and performing, I closed my eyes at one point. And I was like, I could like, I could visualize it. Like, he sounds so much like him. So what they said after this movie came out is that they kind of took Remy Malick's voice, Mark Martel's, Freddie Mercury, and made a combination to put him in the movie. But what I've actually really heard is that it's pretty much all this guy Mark Martel

because he sounds so like him and to the point to where the guys from Queen signed off on him. And I think just watching that movie and after seeing him perform live, I'm pretty sure that they use like most of his stuff because it is so right on. but Remy Malik did a really great job playing Freddie Mercury, but sounding like him, that's a really hard thing to do. So I don't hold anything against the guy. He won best actor for it. I just think it's pretty cool how they made that happen.

But if you're watching that movie and thinking it's Rami Malik singing, it is not. Now, this next one kind of got me by surprise because Jamie Fox is a really talented, actor and musician, and he's a really great singer. And when he played Ray Charles in the movie Ray, I thought that was a no-brainer that he was singing in it. But the thing is that Jamie Fox, he loves Ray Charles and he I mean he nailed the performance

he looks like him but he didn't want to attempt to kind of recreate or mimic Ray Charles' voice because in the movie he is playing Ray Charles like throughout his career and he didn't want to do like an impression of what what ends up just sounding like the end of Ray Charles' lives

so what he did was he actually went and learned piano so in the movie it's actually him playing piano which is a hard thing to recreate like when it comes to learning instruments If you don't know how to play an instrument while you're acting, it's going to look really like you're not going to believe it because you're not going to be looking like you're knowing what you're doing. So he learned how to play piano to make that part authentic.

But he wanted to hold Ray Charles' voice and use his actual recording. So he didn't actually sing in the movie Ray. And he actually does like a really great impression to Ray and he can actually sing just like him. But for the movie's sake, they use live recordings. They use stuff from the studio. And it's not Jamie Fox singing in the movie. the movie. Nailed the part, though. He's a really talented guy and sings in other movies just not in

this one. Now, this next one is one that kind of ruined my childhood just a little bit because I'm a big Selena Kintanilla fan. She's a Dejano artist out of Texas and growing up like I was maybe five years old and I didn't really know anything about music, but I knew Selena. And when she died, it was a really sad day in my family. Like I remember the day she died and I remember getting a t-shirt with Selena's face on it and I loved her music. So when the movie, came out, I was as a kid excited to see it and Jennifer Lopez in it. I love her in this movie and the whole time I thought it was her singing because Jennifer Lopez is like Jamie Fox, like I was saying earlier. She's a great actress and a great singer, but they didn't use Jennifer Lopez's

movie in the movie. She is actually just lip syncing all the songs and it's Selena's real voice in the movie, which makes sense looking back now because it sounds so identical to the recording, so identical to how she sounded live. And a lot of those are just studio recordings. It's not actually Jennifer Lopez singing. Despite how much she looks like her and could probably sound just like her, I just think it would have been a lot cooler if it was her voice, but I get it that they wanted to hold it kind of true to what Selena sounded like

and have her actual music in the movie. But for me, I think it takes a little bit away from my childhood, thinking that it was Jennifer Lopez. Still a great movie. If you haven't seen it, though, it's not on Netflix anymore, but if you subscribe to HBO Max now, you can watch it there. Alright, this next one is another one of my favorite movies. It's La Bamba, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, who played Richie Valens.

And Richie Valens, of course, died in a plane crash back in the 50s with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. And this movie watching it, I kind of knew that it wasn't Lou Diamond Phillips singing in it because you can almost tell in some scenes where he's lip syncing that it just kind of completely changes and sounds like a recording. But what they ended up doing is they used music recreated by Los Lobos, because when Richie Valens went into the recording studio and did these old tracks back in the day, they didn't have everything separated. So when you record music nowadays, you have like the vocals on one track,

the guitars on one track, the drums on another track, and so forth. But back in the day, it was like straight up everything on one track because it's so old school, everything just pretty much recorded the tape. And there was no way to pull apart the tracks. So what they end up doing like when they're shooting the movie

is the lip sync to the vocals or something like that, kind of strip it down in a way, to where they can recreate the scenes and make it sync up just perfectly. But they couldn't do that with these old recordings. So what they did is they got Los Lobos to essentially recreate all of Richie Valenz's music for the movie,

including the song La Bamba, which I knew that one because I remember having the soundtrack to this movie and all of the songs in there had Los Lobos. I was like, oh, so it's not Lundem and Phillips singing, which pretty much makes sense. He looks a lot like Richie Valens in the movie, but it's not him singing. This next one's actually kind of funny.

The movie, Oh, Brother, Where I, Art thou starring George Clooney has a really great soundtrack and George Clooney you think he's singing in the movie and it would be kind of like an entire package of George Clooney was that good looking and could be able to sing but what they tried to do for this movie first is actually use George Clooney's voice. They're like, you know what, let's give him a shot. So he actually sang on like the early recordings going into this movie and when the producers listened back to this, they pretty much said that he sounded like a cat just screeching and sounded terrible and they couldn't use it. So what you see in the movie and what you

hear on the soundtrack, it's not George Clooney. It's actually from a band called the Sagi Bottom Boys who ended up winning a Grammy for this soundtrack and the main song on it, Man of Constance Sorrow. Even though as talented as George Clooney is, not him singing in this one. So this next one's pretty cool. So you got the animated 1994 original Lion King and you have a young Simba voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who you may remember from home improvement and pretty much being a little hardthrob in the 90s, but he didn't provide the singing voice for Simba in this movie who actually did it was an actor named Jason Weaver who you may remember as the older brother in smart guy which was a really great TV show back in the 90s and he did the singing

voice for this and not only that but Disney originally offered him two million dollars to do the voice for Simba and essentially okay you take the two million dollars and that's your pay for this movie but his mom really had a big win here because she kind of knew how deep or big Disney Pockets were in how much this movie could really be successful, that she made a really powerful business move to be like, you know what, we don't want the two million. Instead, we'll take $100,000 and we want some royalties of the movie, which was probably the best move in like a kid's acting career because the Lion King, arguably one of the biggest Disney movies of all time, and you're getting royalties from that from forever. Really, you have that money coming in,

for the rest of your life, just a straight up paycheck in the mail. That's like a really great business move, an awesome way for a mom to be looking out for their young kid. Because really, at that age, $2 million sounds like an incredible amount of money, but you're looking at Disney here and you're thinking, you know what? They're putting out these really big legacy animated movies in the 90s. I want to get in on this. I want this for the rest of my life.

So I hope those royalties are still coming in front of them because that is an amazing story. this next one's a little cringe-worthy so Zach Ephron in high school musical Zach Ephron is actually a decent singer we talked about the greatest showman where he did actually provide the singing voice in that so he can sing and he thought he was going to be the one singing high school musical like he filmed the movie and did all the singing but when the movie came out he realized that they took all of his vocals out and brought it another singer to sing over him so it's not actually Zach Ephron in that movie because they didn't want to use his vocals.

So they got somebody else, hired him. Zach Ephron said he was actually blindsided when he found out that they didn't use his voice. And after that, that he realized that they brought somebody else to record the vocals and put him in instead without him knowing. When it came to the sequels for this, he pushed for them to actually use his vocals in the second and third movie. So after that original movie, it is Zach Efron singing in the movies. And speaking of Disney movies, a guilty pleasure of mine is the Lizzie McGuire movie.

and I was actually thinking of this movie the other day because I felt like this movie kind of ended my childhood. Now, I didn't get super into Disney really, but I did, from time to time when I would go over to my cousin's house, I would watch the Disney original channel movies because after like a certain time at night,

they would just replay those all over and over and over. And I didn't have cable at the time. So that's really the kind of time I would binge all these movies. And I remember watching Lizzie McGuire and being really excited when the movie came out. And I feel like that was kind of like the last of my year. of being into any kind of Disney Channel stuff

because I was growing into being like a teenager going to middle school and I was like I'm not really going to be into this anymore. And I remember like the summer that the Lazy McGuire movie came out. Maybe I didn't see it at theaters. I may have saw it like on DVD but I felt like that was the end of like a marking point of my life. That's kind of how I like pinpoint the end of me being like an innocent kid

to going on to being a teenager. But in this movie Hillary Duff actually plays two characters. She plays herself as Lizzie McGuire, and then she plays the other singer, Isabella, in the movie. Screen situation going on here, but Lizzie McGuire is voiced by Hillary Duff, so that's her singing those parts in the movie, but to bring in Isabella, they actually used Hillary Duff's sister Haley Duff, who also gets starred in a few episodes of Lazy McGuire, so it's all right there coming out in the movie, Haley Duff and Hillary Duff both singing in that part. And there you go. Those are the ones that I found were the most interesting. If there are any

others you think I should have included in this list, just hit me up and tweet me at Mike Deistro or send me a message on Instagram. All right, so this next movie review, it's a movie that I was highly recommended to watch by a guy I work with on the Bobby Bone Show named Lunchbox. He saw this movie and was like completely floored, completely blown away by it, so much so that he's been recommending it to everybody, like even like his family. And Lunchbox isn't really a big movie guy, so it takes really kind of something to kind of shake him to his core and so much so that he recommends it to people. So I was like, all right,

I can't believe, first of all, that I haven't seen this movie. And second of all, if he's so hype about this, it has to be good. So it's a movie called Molly's Game, which came out in 2017. It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Kevin Costner. And it is available to watch now on Netflix if you're looking for something to watch. But before I get into the review, here's just a little bit of Molly's game. I'm Molly Bloom. Do you know about me? You heard your indictment after I got your call last night, and I bought your book. Do you understand that you are charged with operating an illegal gambling business? Are you taking me on as a client?

I don't think I can convince my partner to take a flyer on the poker princess. If you think a princess can do it, I did, you're incorrect. I'm getting that you don't think much of me, but what if every single one of your ill-informed, unsophisticated opinions about me were wrong? So the movie is the true story of Molly Bloom, who was an Olympic-class skier, and then ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became a target for the FBI. And what I liked about this movie, but in the beginning was that it kind of started at the end. It kind of set up her story as an Olympic skier, and then it kind of just kind of flip-flops and goes into how she got arrested.

So it kind of starts at the end, and then it works away figuring out kind of what happened. So Jessica Chastain plays Molly, and then she's working with Edithelba, who was her lawyer, and she's trying to get out of trouble with the FBI. And then throughout her kind of explaining your situation, it goes backwards and kind of starts from the beginning of how she started running these poker games into where she ended up now. So I felt the movie had a really great premise.

I liked the storyline, but I also felt like you needed to know a little bit about poker, which when Lunchbox told me about it, he said even if you're not into poker, even if you know anything about gambling, you'll still enjoy this movie. And I just found myself having to kind of Google things and kind of like look at things

and realize like why they happened a certain way. I didn't feel like the movie did a great job explaining everything as it went throughout. But I think the real problem I had with this movie is that it's a lot of explaining and not showing. So it's Molly kind of pretty much telling the story of what happened the entire time. And she narrates in a way that it kind of gets a little bit boring

because there's parts that you just want to see happen. You just want to feel those things. You want to feel those things with her and experience and with them, but it's all her kind of like backtracking back. And I felt like this movie was building up to something that never really paid off anywhere or got anything kind of accomplished to me in the movie. I thought there was going to be like this really big, unbelievable scene where just something unbelievable happened, but it never really got there for me.

It ended up, you know, I didn't feel like it did a really great job in that. There were some really cool parts to it. I thought there were some pretty cool parts to it. I found it interesting, but as a movie in a whole, I just didn't feel like it had a lane anywhere. Like it was kind of a biopic, but it didn't really. feel like a coherent movie to me. Like I thought it was entertaining enough to keep watching it. At no point I was like, I'm going to turn this off and not care anymore. Maybe the last 20 minutes I was kind of over it and didn't really care what was going to end up. So for that, I would probably

rate it like barely at a three out of five poker chip. It's right on the very end. Like it's entertaining enough. But it's also two hours and 20 minutes and those last 20 minutes really don't go anywhere. And it kind of ends and you're like, oh, that's how it ends. like that's it like where's everything else like i don't know i feel like there's another movie inside there because it is based on a book and it is based on a true story and i feel like there's more inside of that true story that makes for a better movie than the way this was told and i don't even think it was the fact that it was so hyped up to me that i found myself not liking it i just kind of got bored there towards the end so i'd say maybe if you're really into poker and gambling and want to

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