Speaker 1: All right, it is Oscar Sunday Award Show. Just I
Speaker 1: don't know when you're listening to this, but it's coming
Speaker 1: up and you still haven't seen Train Dreams. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: number nine. As we're making through all ten Best Picture
Speaker 1: nominees giving you the cliff notes, but up next, number nine. Now,
Speaker 1: Train Dreams the shortest of them all.
Speaker 2: We should mention the shortest, but it actually felt like
Speaker 2: the longest.
Speaker 1: We'll explain it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well one of the longest. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I was surprised when I saw how short it actually
Speaker 2: was because it did feel like.
Speaker 3: This very long journey.
Speaker 2: So this movie got four nominations, and this was the
Speaker 2: only other Best Picture nominee that didn't have any Best
Speaker 2: Acting nods, which is pretty fascinating given that you've got
Speaker 2: Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones in this, like two incredible
Speaker 2: award winning actors, that neither one of them got a
Speaker 2: nomination for.
Speaker 1: This and Joel Edgerton, what was the other one? F one?
Speaker 1: Those are the only two, right, correct? F one? These
Speaker 1: are the only two, And I guess that's kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess somebody had to get left
Speaker 1: out with so many movies.
Speaker 2: But what's interesting to me, though, is this movie in particular.
Speaker 2: By the way, so it got Best Picture, Best Cinematography,
Speaker 2: Best Original Song, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Speaker 3: Now best cinematography, totally get it.
Speaker 2: It is a sweeping, beautiful it's gorgeous to look at.
Speaker 2: It kind of reminds me of even watching like a
Speaker 2: NAT Geo special. You're just kind of swept away in
Speaker 2: this gorgeous landscape in the Pacific Northwest. But really what
Speaker 2: drives this movie is the acting and so the storytelling.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting to me that it didn't get an acting.
Speaker 1: Not wait a second, I just messed up the narrator
Speaker 1: Will Patten. Will Patten adds a lot to this movie.
Speaker 3: So that has been written about it. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: the reviews people.
Speaker 2: Talk about you know how I said it reminded me
Speaker 2: of an at Geo where you've got, you know, the
Speaker 2: voice of God speaking over the storytelling of whatever you're
Speaker 2: looking at. That's what Will Patten gives to this movie.
Speaker 2: Just this, you know, the voice. You actually see his
Speaker 2: face when you hear his voice.
Speaker 1: You probably can't come up with his name. He's one
Speaker 1: of those actors who've just been around being don't so
Speaker 1: many things. He's usually the right hand of whoever. The
Speaker 1: man is kind of a guy, but robes. As soon
Speaker 1: as we heard his voice, we said, know that guy.
Speaker 1: We started listing movies even that he was in, and
Speaker 1: we couldn't come up with his name. But he drives.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: He is dramatic and intoxicating in his storytelling as he
Speaker 1: goes along. I love you know what. That was the
Speaker 1: best part of this movie for me.
Speaker 2: You said that multiple times, and you actually even remembered.
Speaker 2: You said, remember remember in Halloween and Halloween Killed. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the officer and you were right. I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, you're right. I can see his face.
Speaker 2: That is the voice to.
Speaker 3: Go from Halloween to Train Dreams.
Speaker 2: Okay, a little bit of a departure, but he literally
Speaker 2: has the perfect story book like voice to narrate this epic,
Speaker 2: epic journey. And so if you want to know what
Speaker 2: it is, here is the official synopsis. Based on Dennis
Speaker 2: Johnson's beloved novella. Train Dreams is the moving portrait of
Speaker 2: Robert Greinier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a
Speaker 2: life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing
Speaker 2: America of the early twentieth century. What they leave out
Speaker 2: is there is this beautiful love story I think, between
Speaker 2: man and planet Earth and what it provides, and also
Speaker 2: between a man and a woman, this simple man who
Speaker 2: just wanted the simple things in life, and there is
Speaker 2: a tragic turn and twist in the story that is
Speaker 2: fairly devastating.
Speaker 1: What would you say, just based on reading that, is
Speaker 1: that a movie that catches your attention just on the snopsis?
Speaker 3: Okay, I think we need to tell the story.
Speaker 2: So when we were going over the different movies in
Speaker 2: what order we wanted to watch them part of we
Speaker 2: started watching these movies actually a couple weeks ago when Sabrine.
Speaker 2: Sabine was on her not spring break but her winter break,
Speaker 2: and so she started kind of looking them up for
Speaker 2: us and asking us.
Speaker 3: So we said, what's the shortest one.
Speaker 2: We wanted to get the shortest one over first, and
Speaker 2: she said trained dreams were like train dreams.
Speaker 3: What's that about? She read this synopsis.
Speaker 2: You and I looked at each other and started laughing
Speaker 2: and said, no, nah, we were like a lagger talking
Speaker 2: about his life of unexpected depth in the rapidly change
Speaker 2: twentieth century. Really that sounds like a social studies movie.
Speaker 2: I had to watch in class in lieu of, you know,
Speaker 2: my substitute teachers there, So that was like compulsory movie watching.
Speaker 2: As short as it was when we heard that we
Speaker 2: I would never have watched this movie had it not
Speaker 2: been nominated and had we not decided to do this.
Speaker 1: That that is true. There was nothing necessarily even about
Speaker 1: it after it was nominated that I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm curious, sir, let me put that on the list.
Speaker 1: It just was not as much as I love Joel Edgerton, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love having Felicity Jonesah well, oh my goodness. And
Speaker 1: I didn't even know about Homeboy doing the narration, So
Speaker 1: it just wasn't and didn't. Sabine tell us as well
Speaker 1: that it was already out there. That had to do
Speaker 1: with the loss of a child. It had to do
Speaker 1: with death again of a child.
Speaker 2: So many of these movies in Best Picture have had
Speaker 2: the death of a child.
Speaker 3: The loss of a child that is just a gutting, gutting.
Speaker 2: Theme, and it's hard to kind of rev yourself up
Speaker 2: to say, hey.
Speaker 3: Let's watch this.
Speaker 2: This is about the death of a wife and his daughter,
Speaker 2: and it is I mean again, I cried, crying, feeling moved,
Speaker 2: and look, I do think I looked at you and
Speaker 2: said a couple of times.
Speaker 3: You know, we we just we.
Speaker 2: Are so obsessed and love horrors and horror comedies, and
Speaker 2: we'll watch comedy movies too.
Speaker 3: This is this is kind of cool.
Speaker 4: This assignment because we I was able to watch different
Speaker 4: types of movies that we don't seek out normally, and
Speaker 4: we got to watch the best of the best.
Speaker 1: You are absolutely right, and we are This should be
Speaker 1: a lesson to us down the road. When movies come out,
Speaker 1: we should give them a chance, go to the theater,
Speaker 1: check things out, because there is plenty to enjoy in
Speaker 1: these movies. It's just not usually what we what we
Speaker 1: go for and ies. We like horror and we like comedy.
Speaker 1: We have now, as crazy as we are, we have
Speaker 1: now almost gotten to a point where we're almost exclusive
Speaker 1: horror comedy. Right now, we need a complete departure from
Speaker 1: the life that we are covering.
Speaker 2: So it needs to be satirical, It needs to be outrageous,
Speaker 2: it needs to be thrilling offensive. Even sometimes that's fine
Speaker 2: exactly or yes, or the fear of the supernatural, just
Speaker 2: something such a departure from reality.
Speaker 3: But in the Train Dreams.
Speaker 2: Look, it never actually was released to the box office, right,
Speaker 2: This never was in theater's Train Dreams.
Speaker 1: No where did it go? I should know this? No,
Speaker 1: it did not get a theatrical release. Where did it
Speaker 1: end up online? Where did we watch it?
Speaker 3: This was one of the ones.
Speaker 2: I believe that we were able to stream for free
Speaker 2: because that was part of our schedule of what we
Speaker 2: could watch because we were trying to wait for all
Speaker 2: of them to stream free.
Speaker 3: But this was on Netflix, so this might have just
Speaker 3: been a.
Speaker 2: Netflix to Netflix movie because it was never theatrically released,
Speaker 2: so there was no actual box office, no way to
Speaker 2: determine how popular this was in terms of how many
Speaker 2: people actually saw this movie.
Speaker 1: Where did we put this on our list? In what order?
Speaker 1: Did we actually watch this one?
Speaker 2: This was one of the last ones because I think
Speaker 2: just because of the synopsis. When we read the synopsis,
Speaker 2: it just seemed like the last thing we wanted to watch,
Speaker 2: and then add death to it and it just was like, Wow,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm up for this. But the
Speaker 2: truth is we actually enjoyed it. I actually thought it
Speaker 2: was so beautiful to watch. It was heartrending. Yes, but
Speaker 2: it was also so beautiful, and the critics and the
Speaker 2: audience agreed. Rotten Tomatoes ninety four percent for the critics,
Speaker 2: ninety percent for the audience.
Speaker 1: Our forty two long movie that helped it is PG. Thirteen,
Speaker 1: What Robes. This movie felt incredibly long to me. Now,
Speaker 1: let me start with we didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 1: The synopsis that we don't know if it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a great movie. We love, but Robes. When we the
Speaker 1: first shot, the first image you see when this movie starts,
Speaker 1: you think, wow, that's beautiful. Yep, it is breathtaking from
Speaker 1: the jump, and you do feel like you're on one
Speaker 1: of these what were those big what was it? The
Speaker 1: planet Earth? The document?
Speaker 2: I think, yes, David what the voice of God? I'll
Speaker 2: never come up with this name, but my girls love
Speaker 2: those movies.
Speaker 3: That's what I felt like I.
Speaker 2: Was watching when this movie started, and I got sucked
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 1: You do get sucked in. It's only an hour and
Speaker 1: forty two minutes. Did we do it in one sitting?
Speaker 1: We did?
Speaker 2: We did it in one sitting than the next movie
Speaker 2: we did in two days.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well Trained Dreams was one for me at least
Speaker 1: this is the one. You said, it felt like it
Speaker 1: kept getting longer and longer and longer. To me for
Speaker 1: some reason, this isn't the one I did that.
Speaker 2: No, which was the next one? Which was that the
Speaker 2: next one sentimental value?
Speaker 1: No, it was this one, you remember. It was the
Speaker 1: shortest one, but it took us so long to get
Speaker 1: through it, you said, because I complained that I felt
Speaker 1: that there was just the one.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm getting confused, because all of the last
Speaker 2: ones we saw you did not like it at all,
Speaker 2: because they were very emotional and they did drag on.
Speaker 1: No, that's okay, that's to put it that way. I
Speaker 1: didn't say I didn't like them because they were emotional.
Speaker 1: They were a different type of experiences. I've been trying
Speaker 1: to explain. There's a difference appreciating this art versus saying
Speaker 1: that's not a good movie or I don't like that movie.
Speaker 2: True, okay, true, true, true, Yes, I do remember though
Speaker 2: there were several times when you just you kept looking
Speaker 2: at your phone and pausing and looking at the end
Speaker 2: of the movie and wondering when it was going to
Speaker 2: be over.
Speaker 1: But again you're saying, there was this one or the
Speaker 1: next one.
Speaker 3: I think you kind of did it on both.
Speaker 1: See this thing.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you there you have I can we I
Speaker 2: know when things start getting uncomfortable, like really uncomfortable and dark,
Speaker 2: that is when you tend.
Speaker 3: To check out.
Speaker 1: But I don't sit up and want to dive in
Speaker 1: to whatever that is right. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: sucked into misery. I don't want to get sucked into heartache.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get sucked into pain and to
Speaker 1: loss and to death. I don't. And these movies are
Speaker 1: so good. They're so well written, they're so well shot,
Speaker 1: they're so well directed, they're so well acted that you
Speaker 1: can't help to get sucked in and I want to
Speaker 1: go away. They're just not I don't. Maybe I feel
Speaker 1: too much, Maybe I can't take them just for what
Speaker 1: they are and not get but robes. They are heavy movies,
Speaker 1: and this one had beauty start to finish, and some
Speaker 1: of that beauty had a lot to do with pain.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: And the outdoors, which is what I really loved about
Speaker 2: this movie, the connection to nature as a logger, just
Speaker 2: one with the trees and just it was gorgeous in
Speaker 2: its isolation, which sounds crazy, but there was so much
Speaker 2: beauty to that.
Speaker 1: But after hearing all that, can you all tell if
Speaker 1: we would tell you to watch it or skip it?
Speaker 1: Stay here all right, folks, Train Dreams? You know why
Speaker 1: the title anyway? Do you remember?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Because he would get on the train and have to
Speaker 2: leave his family for months at a time, and then
Speaker 2: with a bunch of other loggers looking for work, instot
Speaker 2: the train would take him I'm thinking, to work, but
Speaker 2: then back to the life that he was wanting to
Speaker 2: be able to support.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked you to tonight, Hey, should I watch Trained Dreams?
Speaker 2: You would tell them I would say to watch it.
Speaker 2: I really liked it.
Speaker 3: I thought there was a lot of beauty and value in.
Speaker 2: It, And I just think I would probably tell them,
Speaker 2: you need to be in the right state of mind,
Speaker 2: don't be sleepy, and if you're looking for some fast
Speaker 2: paced action, thriller comedy like, it's none of those things.
Speaker 2: This is actually if you're kind of in a reflective.
Speaker 3: Meditative place.
Speaker 2: I really think this is a beautiful movie to watch
Speaker 2: if you're willing to just kind of go in deep
Speaker 2: with connection and just I think this is celebrating the
Speaker 2: beauty of life in its simplest form and just respecting
Speaker 2: the cycle of life and seeing how fleeting things are
Speaker 2: but still being able to be at peace with it.
Speaker 3: People a lot of folks who.
Speaker 2: Went online and talked about this talked about it highlighting
Speaker 2: invisible pain, and that's something so many people feel but
Speaker 2: don't know how to express or to even connect with.
Speaker 2: And this movie spoke to a lot of people because
Speaker 2: it it highlighted or it showed in a way without
Speaker 2: even saying so much. They showed what it's like to
Speaker 2: live with invisible pain and still find beauty.
Speaker 1: It is. It felt like reading a book, a really
Speaker 1: good book. And you know, I don't read a out
Speaker 1: of books, but there was detail, if you will, that
Speaker 1: felt like some of the stuff you would only get
Speaker 1: from taking a deep dive into a character in a book.
Speaker 1: But they pulled it off in an hour forty two.
Speaker 1: Congrats to them and anything they pick up I would applaud.
Speaker 1: This was a This was a unique movie. I thought
Speaker 1: it was gorgeous. Not something I don't think I would
Speaker 1: ever There's a caveat I would never say, go you
Speaker 1: gotta see train dreams tonight and then not say but
Speaker 1: but heads up right, you would need to give a
Speaker 1: little bit of a warning before.
Speaker 3: So watch it with an asterisk.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, this is not Friday night popcorn movie.
Speaker 2: No, this might be a Sunday afternoon reflectible.
Speaker 1: Right after watching Jane Pauli on CBS.
Speaker 2: Yes, maybe a Sunday mornings and then you turn this on.
Speaker 2: That would actually took a good anytime you would think
Speaker 2: you would want to watch Planet Earth and I just
Speaker 2: remember you.
Speaker 3: The narrator was David Atteboro. But if you like that,
Speaker 3: you'll love this movie.
Speaker 1: There you go. All right, that's number now, only one more.
Speaker 1: It's going to be next on our feet. It'll be
Speaker 1: right after this one movie number ten for us. It's
Speaker 1: going to be sentimental value. We don't know really what
Speaker 1: to do with this one. All right, we'll see you
Speaker 1: on the next one.