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Bald Move Prestige

Whiplash (2014)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Chasing greatness requires sacrifice, but does it require torturous conditions? Damien Chazelle wrote and directed a film that’s so hard to watch sometimes, but you can’t look away. J.K. Simmons plays the demented instructor of protege drummer Andrew, played by Miles Teller. What is the movie trying to say? Is it a maddening endorsement of maniacal leadership? Or is it a warning? Hey there!  Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts! Join the Club! Join the discussion:  Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter  |  Instagram  |  Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What the fuck was that edit my voice sounds compressed this shit

0:18.0

All right second chair pretend get your ass in here. Why are you still here?

0:22.0

Yeah, I think I think we should try that. Not my tempo, Touttha, not my tempo.

0:30.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Bald Booth Prest boot prestige today we're talking about

0:34.3

whip lash to 2014 psychological drama I guess is what we're calling it about the

0:42.2

high stakes world of musical colleges.

0:47.0

Sure.

0:51.0

Where it's always sectionals and yeah I don't know it's about it's about a

0:57.8

maniacal coach versus gifted but raw protege played by Miles Teller and he's a demon on the drums

1:08.8

by can he beat the demon in the practice room JK. This is the first time I've seen this movie. This movie was a pick by the executive producers of bald move. Hell of a job, everyone.

1:21.6

You know, I've heard about this movie.

1:23.7

If you're on the internet, you've probably seen memes with J.K. Simmons from time to time.

1:29.4

I was blown away by it made me feel such intensity of emotions and was so stressful and

1:42.0

it made me very angry and very sad at places and I wasn't expecting that.

1:46.3

I was, yeah, I wasn't expecting how hard this film goes. What's your experience with with Blashier, Jim?

1:55.8

It's my first time seeing it as well. Not even really on my radar. I hadn't even really

2:01.5

really heard of this movie. And so my very first line in my notes,

2:06.2

as I was turning on the film to watch it, is can a movie about drumming be any good?

2:15.8

And I think the answer here is yes. Yes it can.

2:28.9

I think this is a good movie. The performance is great. They're outstanding in some cases. And it's a very complicated movie. Not structurally. I mean, I've seen a lot of people say, you know, to like a sports film it very much is in a lot of ways and

2:37.6

specifically structurally but it's complicated morally I think and that to me is its greatest achievement.

2:47.2

I think this is sort of a this could be kind of a sorting mill for people and their outlooks on life at the end of this film because they're dueling sort of messages I think at the end

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