Speaker 1: Hey, they're focused in this episode. We watch them so
Speaker 1: you don't have to. Welcome to part two of our
Speaker 1: Best Picture of preview here on Naming and PJ. We
Speaker 1: have watched all of these Haska movies, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to do so. Because Robes, these are long movies,
Speaker 1: very really long movies.
Speaker 2: This is a commitment of time and energy that I
Speaker 2: don't think either one of us would have put into
Speaker 2: it had it not been a self imposed work assignment.
Speaker 1: The single one of the ten Best Picture nominees are
Speaker 1: under two hours. The shortest one is Conclave, which is
Speaker 1: exactly two hours. Is this just where we are now?
Speaker 1: Movies are just going to be longer?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Because it's funny. You and I typically, well,
Speaker 2: we do like our horror genre, and it just so
Speaker 2: happens that most horror movies are about an hour and
Speaker 2: thirty minutes. So we have just kind of gotten used
Speaker 2: to that ninety minute thing, and I just feel like
Speaker 2: that's so doable. Two hours. You're pushing it two and
Speaker 2: a half hours. That's tough. Three hours plus, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is art, though, this is art. Rose look
Speaker 1: full disclosure, everybody, we have not seen a single one
Speaker 1: of the ten nominated films in the theater, but we
Speaker 1: have seen just about all of them. If we haven't seen,
Speaker 1: we have other folks in the room here with us.
Speaker 1: We have our super producers, Andy, Emma and Sidney. If
Speaker 1: you've listened to the podcast at all, you've heard their name.
Speaker 1: So they joined us on this assignment of watching all
Speaker 1: of these movies so we could give you a review
Speaker 1: so you don't have to. We are going to do
Speaker 1: today Conclave, Doom two, I'm Still Here, The Substance, and Wicked.
Speaker 1: We will start with Conclave, nominated for eight Oscars Best Picture,
Speaker 1: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay among them,
Speaker 1: starring Ralph Fines, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rosalini.
Speaker 1: Directed by Edward Berger, this is based on a twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen novel story that follows a cardinal task with running
Speaker 1: the conclave to elect the next pope, and then secret
Speaker 1: slies conspiracies are revealed that threatened the future of the church.
Speaker 1: This one did well at the box office ninety eight
Speaker 1: point five million dollars. If you'd like to watch it,
Speaker 1: it is available on Peacock and it's also available on
Speaker 1: video on demand if you want to rent or buy it.
Speaker 1: Runtime two hours, the shortest of the ten nominees, has
Speaker 1: a ninety three percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it
Speaker 1: has picked up a very big award in the season,
Speaker 1: the Best Film Award at the Baptist also Best Screenplay
Speaker 1: at the Golden Globes Robes Conclave. Your first impression riveting
Speaker 1: and Lightning and Lightning from Sydney. Emma didn't watch? Sorry,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sorry. I knew that. It's at the
Speaker 1: top of my notes. I know that, Emma.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm gonna admit I failed you.
Speaker 1: I keep putting her in a position to say she failed.
Speaker 1: She could never work for Elon Muss. What was Sure's handy?
Speaker 3: I would say, modern classic, A.
Speaker 1: Modern classic, I would My first impression was wow to
Speaker 1: the ensemble cast. There is this crew of actors, is
Speaker 1: the top of their game? That was my first impression.
Speaker 1: Now we ropes have been covering for the past I
Speaker 1: think several days a week plus. Now, what's happening with
Speaker 1: the Pope? Him being in the hospital, his illness, the
Speaker 1: timing just as wild?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Is this art imitating life? Or is this life
Speaker 2: imitating art? I don't know which it is, but certainly
Speaker 2: I would imagine this has drawn a lot more folks
Speaker 2: to watching this film because we're seeing potentially a conclave
Speaker 2: playing out in front of us, or at least could
Speaker 2: be happening in the next couple of weeks with Pope
Speaker 2: Francis's deteriorating conditions. So you know, maybe perhaps a lot
Speaker 2: of new new members of viewing audience have never witnessed
Speaker 2: or seen a conclave happen. We've reported on them over
Speaker 2: the years. I was raised Catholic myself, so I found
Speaker 2: this film to be fascinating about the politicking that goes
Speaker 2: on behind the scenes, and it I just think it's
Speaker 2: I mean, the filmmakers could never have known how timely
Speaker 2: it would be, but my goodness, it's worth a watch
Speaker 2: given what's going on.
Speaker 1: Uh Sydney Andy. I was struck by how much and
Speaker 1: I guess we should know this, but I was struck
Speaker 1: how much they nailed something that we find as sacred
Speaker 1: as right church Catholics and these men who are at
Speaker 1: the top, how just down and dirty. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: just nothing but politics. These are nothing but politics. That
Speaker 1: kind of was jarring to me to a certain degree.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think like that's why I was enlightening to me,
Speaker 5: just kind of that like inside look inside the Roman
Speaker 5: Catholic Church. I didn't know anything about Conclave, anything about
Speaker 5: it going into this movie, and just like seeing all
Speaker 5: of those like little minute details like kept me entertained
Speaker 5: the whole time.
Speaker 4: It was just like a bun. It was.
Speaker 5: It's like if you look at it all around, it's
Speaker 5: like almost slow. But it was like all those little
Speaker 5: petty things that they were doing. I was like, oh
Speaker 5: my god.
Speaker 4: This is crazy to see.
Speaker 5: I don't know these leaders that you hold to such
Speaker 5: a standard doing that.
Speaker 3: It felt like watching Catholic Survivor, where like I didn't
Speaker 3: know what was going on, like the politicking involved the
Speaker 3: alliances that are formed trying to get people's votes. I
Speaker 3: found that to be so fascinating. I loved like the
Speaker 3: humor in it. I like because there were very funny parts,
Speaker 3: Like I feel like the ending Ralph Find's character. I
Speaker 3: won't give it away, but like he just at that point,
Speaker 3: he just has a look on his face that I
Speaker 3: just started laughing because I'm like, I feel so bad.
Speaker 1: For this man. He's been put through the ringer.
Speaker 2: Yes, and Ralph finds as an actor can say so
Speaker 2: much just with his face, yeah, without even using his
Speaker 2: own words. But I think for me, it's a reminder
Speaker 2: when you watch this film that cardinals, popes are men. Men,
Speaker 2: They're humans, and there is still there are, there will
Speaker 2: always be elements of greed and power and corruption, no
Speaker 2: matter what organization you're looking into or inside, whether it's
Speaker 2: you know, even a church, still has those same elements.
Speaker 2: Because these are men, they are not anything extraordinary in
Speaker 2: terms of just their humanness was on full display. It
Speaker 2: was a pretty cool potential look into what may be
Speaker 2: going on actually right now.
Speaker 1: It was just so well acted these guys. Ray Fines
Speaker 1: is just I don't think he's picked up any major
Speaker 1: awards in this award season, but he is just He
Speaker 1: carries the movie and I forgot about I think I
Speaker 1: can remember which one of you said it, but there's
Speaker 1: a scene at the end where it just all comes
Speaker 1: out of him. Yeah, and you see it and like, god,
Speaker 1: this poor guy. I also have.
Speaker 3: Isabella Roslini too. She was amazing too. She had like
Speaker 3: one scene that was it, but she nailed that scene
Speaker 3: so well.
Speaker 1: The cafeteria, right y, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I didn't recognize her at first it took me a
Speaker 2: second say, wait, is that Isabella Rosselini?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And sure enough, and she was so good I thought, oh,
Speaker 2: John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci. I just think it was such
Speaker 2: a good cast. And these are men who you see
Speaker 2: usually do very different characters, so it was cool to
Speaker 2: see them all together in this setting.
Speaker 1: And there is a twist twist at the end.
Speaker 2: There's a big twist.
Speaker 1: You will don't. I don't care who you are, you
Speaker 1: will not guess it.
Speaker 2: No, damn yeah, if you read about it, if you're
Speaker 2: going in, you will never guess it.
Speaker 1: You will not guess it. So if you had to
Speaker 1: recommend it, Andy, would you recommend it to a friend?
Speaker 1: And what?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? I think it is just again a modern classic.
Speaker 3: I think you can go back and rewatch this. The
Speaker 3: rewatchability is like through the roof. You can show it
Speaker 3: to friends who you don't have to invest or feel like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, the Brutalist. You just watch it and
Speaker 3: you just started just like, oh that was heavy. This
Speaker 3: one you can kind of just watch and it ends
Speaker 3: and you're like, I really like that. And now it's
Speaker 3: nominated for Best Picture. So wow, it's easy for me
Speaker 3: to died, So I.
Speaker 5: Would one hundred percent recommend it. I think it's it's
Speaker 5: just such an interesting watch. Like I think, no matter
Speaker 5: who you are anything like, you'll be invested in this,
Speaker 5: in this story and who comes out on top. And
Speaker 5: I just think, yeah, I would definitely recommend it.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: We're recommending to you, Emma that you should watch it
Speaker 2: in your free time. No, it's it's a it's a
Speaker 2: great thriller. I think that's you know, it's just you're
Speaker 2: you're waiting, and I don't think it disappoints the ending.
Speaker 2: Whether you like it or not, it still was thrilling
Speaker 2: at the end. So I would absolutely recommend this to anybody.
Speaker 1: It's thrilling, that is, and it's so well acted. I
Speaker 1: respect every in. Some of the names of the guy
Speaker 1: when you see their faces, you're like, oh that guy
Speaker 1: was the is just so good. So yes, absolutely recommend this.
Speaker 2: All Right, Okay, we'll move on now to Dune two,
Speaker 2: nominated for five Oscars. Uh TJ, you're already giving away
Speaker 2: how you feel about the movie. All right, five Oscars
Speaker 2: Best Picture, Sound, Visual Effects, Production, Design, and Cinematography. It
Speaker 2: stars oh a name we've heard before. Timothy Shallimey Zendeia,
Speaker 2: Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Broland, Austin Butler, Florence Pew, Christopher walk In,
Speaker 2: Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista. It's it's really a who's who
Speaker 2: in the acting world. Every time a new scene was coming,
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, what, they're in it too. That's
Speaker 2: how I felt when I was watching it. It's all
Speaker 2: based on a nineteen sixty five novel by Frank Herbert
Speaker 2: and the sequel to twenty twenty one's Dune Part one,
Speaker 2: So Dune Part two picks up where Dune Part one
Speaker 2: left off. It follows Paul, who is a messiah like
Speaker 2: figure who rallies a group of desert indigenous desert people
Speaker 2: waging a war for the universe and seeking revenge on
Speaker 2: those who destroyed his family. This was a box office juggernaut.
Speaker 2: Seven hundred and fourteen point six million dollars. That's how
Speaker 2: much it grossed at the box office. The runtime is
Speaker 2: a little daunting two hours and forty six minutes. It
Speaker 2: definitely took us quite a while to watch this one.
Speaker 2: Rotten Tomato score ninety two and so far. Best Picture
Speaker 2: nominations BAFTA and Critics' Choice Awards Golden Globes as well.
Speaker 2: So it's gotten a lot of nominations, and we'll go
Speaker 2: around and find out what you all thought about it.
Speaker 2: First impressions, Andy, epic.
Speaker 6: Great cast, stunning.
Speaker 1: I was not a fan amazing Okay, wow, not a
Speaker 1: fan amazing wow. We were sitting next to each other
Speaker 1: watching this, not a fan, an amazing movie. I get
Speaker 1: what you're saying. You know what, We're gonna say the
Speaker 1: same thing here. Imagine, folks, if today someone came to
Speaker 1: you and said, go watch this Star Wars sequel to
Speaker 1: the original Star Wars, so you would go have to
Speaker 1: watch episode five, The Empire Strikes Back, which is the
Speaker 1: sequel to the original Star Wars. See how confusing that is.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is if you try to just jump
Speaker 1: into Doom Part two, it is such an epic story
Speaker 1: that you did. There's so much catching up to do
Speaker 1: and the nuance and the understanding that it makes it
Speaker 1: difficult to watch if you're new to the story. I
Speaker 1: say wow, and this thing was amazing is because it
Speaker 1: is movie making on the grandest, most epic, biggest, most
Speaker 1: beautiful scale that you look at and go wow. But
Speaker 1: it was tough to follow if you're new to the game.
Speaker 2: Correct, So the nominations actually mirror exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 2: What this film is nominated for. I fully support sound,
Speaker 2: visual effects, production design, cinematography. All of that absolutely makes sense. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm someone who is a fan of sci fi and
Speaker 2: I love all the Star Wars, we love Game of Thrones.
Speaker 2: I like complicated, complex storytelling. However, unfortunately, maybe I because
Speaker 2: I tried to watch Dune Part one on a plane
Speaker 2: and fell asleep. I already came into it thinking like,
Speaker 2: how am I gonna catch up? And then I found
Speaker 2: myself actually having to google the story while I was
Speaker 2: watching it to make sense of it. And so I
Speaker 2: maybe this is just my own ego, but I felt
Speaker 2: dumb watching it. I was having a hard time following
Speaker 2: it and what they were saying. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: language that doesn't exist, It's like ancient language. So I
Speaker 2: just I felt mired in all of the complexities of
Speaker 2: the story that I didn't fully grasp, and so that
Speaker 2: is the only reason why it was just it took
Speaker 2: too much effort for me to follow along.
Speaker 1: Okay, Doom, we didn't see Doom one. I fell asleep
Speaker 1: on a plane as well on Doing One. Not earlier
Speaker 1: it happened. But did everybody over there see Doing One?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: You did not, Okay, so you told us. Actually, Andy,
Speaker 1: you say, hey, you'll be fine watching this movie if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen Doing One. But you love this one.
Speaker 3: I personally, I know I can't be given away how
Speaker 3: I feel like until the end. But this is my
Speaker 3: favorite movie of the year. I think it's epic. I
Speaker 3: think it's amazing. I love the story, I love the music.
Speaker 3: I think everything about it just works for me. I loved,
Speaker 3: loved it. I think it just I don't know, it
Speaker 3: just comes together perfectly. I saw it three times in
Speaker 3: the theater. What way I know.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry you saw it three times in the theater.
Speaker 3: With different people because it kept being like I need
Speaker 3: to see this again. And on IMAX, let me tell
Speaker 3: you something. That worm scene where he's on the worm
Speaker 3: and ride in the worm. I was feeling things and
Speaker 3: this man is writing a worm and I'm getting like,
Speaker 3: damn you go.
Speaker 2: Were the worms like adversaries or were they.
Speaker 1: They are bad?
Speaker 3: But yes, they contained the worm?
Speaker 2: Okay, it was part of my computer.
Speaker 5: I really wish I got to see that in Imax
Speaker 5: or whatever it is that I think would have changed
Speaker 5: everything for me, because I already thought it was so
Speaker 5: stunning just watching it on my TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I saw it and Imax that one, and
Speaker 3: then they did like a special limited run with like
Speaker 3: Imax seventy millimeters or something, which is like old. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: I in theater three times to see a two hour
Speaker 1: and forty six minute film.
Speaker 3: To me, the same way that you said the brutalist
Speaker 3: friends told you that that like the three and a
Speaker 3: half hour runtime didn't feel like that to me. Every
Speaker 3: time I watch it, I'm just blown away the whole time,
Speaker 3: where I don't even notice the runtime.
Speaker 1: You spent eight hours and fifteen minutes of your life,
Speaker 1: and I'll do it again, DJ happily in the theater,
Speaker 1: Emma help us here.
Speaker 7: Well, I didn't see doing part one, and so that
Speaker 7: I think, agreeing with Amy, that kind of threw me
Speaker 7: off because I also like sci fi, but I have
Speaker 7: to know what's going on, and I should have seen
Speaker 7: it before, even though I heard from many people, you
Speaker 7: don't have to see the first one to understand it.
Speaker 1: So you talked to Andy too.
Speaker 7: He told you that everyone said you didn't have to
Speaker 7: see the first and so I wish I would have
Speaker 7: because I am a huge Star Wars fan as well.
Speaker 7: But I think it's important to be able to have
Speaker 7: the knowledge to follow correctly.
Speaker 1: It's a big story. Yeah, it's such a big story.
Speaker 3: I love this story. I just that's like my type
Speaker 3: of narrative, Like that's the movie I want to see.
Speaker 3: And I think it's just it's so hard to pull
Speaker 3: off sometimes and I think for it being a sequel,
Speaker 3: they're just able to do it so well in my opinion, and.
Speaker 1: People should know they're is star after star after star
Speaker 1: after star that keeps showing up in this movie. It's
Speaker 1: not real.
Speaker 4: I was so shocked.
Speaker 5: And there's like one random shot of like Anya Taylor Joy.
Speaker 5: I was like, wait what.
Speaker 4: I was so confused.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well she had a few lines.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was just like for her for such
Speaker 4: a big star too.
Speaker 3: So she'll be in the next one for sure, because
Speaker 3: that's the sister.
Speaker 1: Rebecca Ferguson Bardam, you have Shala, may have Zendaia, we
Speaker 1: have Josh Brolin. This movie was jam. Yes, Christopher Walken.
Speaker 4: It's yes, Austin Butler.
Speaker 2: I had to start that I did have fun actually
Speaker 2: just seeing the who's who in the cast, and I
Speaker 2: appreciated all of the art that was involved in it.
Speaker 2: I just the movie made me feel dumb.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's a complex story and okay, we
Speaker 1: get put notes together for this podcast. This is the
Speaker 1: one note on the synopsis of Doom Too that took
Speaker 1: me the longest. I read and read and read, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't just summarize what this movie was about. It
Speaker 1: is big, it's complex, and at the end of this one,
Speaker 1: I don't is he a good guy or bad guy?
Speaker 3: That's the thing. It's like he started in Uprising and
Speaker 3: you don't know, like is he too far gone into
Speaker 3: it and he's not like he he kind of forgot
Speaker 3: who he was in the midst of all of it.
Speaker 3: And I found that to me like amazing.
Speaker 2: Ki. Yeah, it was kind of Khalisi and we love
Speaker 2: Game of Throne, so like we're into all of that storytelling.
Speaker 2: But it was one of those questions where yes, he
Speaker 2: was propped up as a messiah like figure, but I
Speaker 2: don't know who's bad, who's good, who's right, who's wrong.
Speaker 2: And I know that's part of the excitement of the movie,
Speaker 2: but it also was frustrating me. I wanted to know
Speaker 2: who to root for.
Speaker 1: But it's gorgeous, though. If you had to friend comes
Speaker 1: up to you, Hey, Sidney, should I see Done too?
Speaker 5: You would say what, yes, even alone, just for the
Speaker 5: cast and for how attractive Timothy Shallimey looks in that movie.
Speaker 5: Aside from the visual aspects of Dune and whatnot, I.
Speaker 1: Was just like, Yeah, his hair is so well conditioned
Speaker 1: to be in the desert. He has some great product. Emma,
Speaker 1: would you recommend this to a friend?
Speaker 7: I would recommend it to a certain friend, and I
Speaker 7: would say, if they are invested in the story, to
Speaker 7: watch both movies.
Speaker 3: I mean I saw it three times already, so absolutely
Speaker 3: y yeah to.
Speaker 2: Ask, yeah, I don't think I would recommend it to
Speaker 2: anyone that I know.
Speaker 1: I just don't, you know, that's a good point. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would. I respect it. I think
Speaker 1: it's gorgeous. It's just not my lane, and that's okay.
Speaker 2: I actually don't think it needs a recommendation because the
Speaker 2: fans are the fans, and they're built in and they're huge,
Speaker 2: and I don't need to convince anybody to see something.
Speaker 2: If you didn't choose to go see it. I don't
Speaker 2: know that you would want to go see it.
Speaker 3: I had never read the books, so for me, the
Speaker 3: movies are what kind of made me a fan. Okay,
Speaker 3: And I don't think I can read the book because
Speaker 3: it is too big, and I have tried after watching
Speaker 3: the movies. But yeah, no, no, the movies got me in.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he'll go to the theater three times. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read that big book.
Speaker 3: Ages and imagine all those characters but written out, I.
Speaker 1: Can't keep that. That's okay, good point, That's tough. All right.
Speaker 1: Next one, We're going to get through quickly, and I'll
Speaker 1: explain why here in a second. Next one, I'm still here.
Speaker 1: Nominated for three Oscars Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best
Speaker 1: International Feature Film. Fernanda Torres starring in This One. Directed
Speaker 1: by Walter Salez, this is a foreign film about a
Speaker 1: woman who tries to hold her family together after her
Speaker 1: husband's disappearance at the hands of Brazil's a brutal dictatorship.
Speaker 1: This made twenty seven point three million dollars at the
Speaker 1: box office worldwide. It is still in limited theatrical release
Speaker 1: if you want to try to find it. Runtime of
Speaker 1: two hours fifteen minutes. I believe this is the highest
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomato score of all the films, ninety seven percent
Speaker 1: Rotten Tomato score. It has gotten all the big major nominations,
Speaker 1: but no major wins. However, Fernanda Torres did receive the
Speaker 1: Best Actress at the Golden Globes. We have to say here,
Speaker 1: nobody was able to see this one. We can't find
Speaker 1: it anywhere streaming, there's nowhere online, and it's limited release.
Speaker 1: It's hard to find in a theater if you want
Speaker 1: to check it out. But the word on it, I
Speaker 1: guess who I know? Andy, You're one that's very much
Speaker 1: in the movies and know what's going on. But who
Speaker 1: can speak on this for what have you heard about it?
Speaker 1: And has it been recommended to anybody in this room.
Speaker 3: I heard that she's really good in it, and so
Speaker 3: I do want to see it for that reason. It's
Speaker 3: just so hard to find anywhere because it's an international release,
Speaker 3: so those things usually take like months and months to
Speaker 3: get on video on demand. But I do want to
Speaker 3: see it, so.
Speaker 1: Folks or take that need to remember that about the movie. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is difficult to find right now. I cool detail though, Andy,
Speaker 1: we were just talking about this. Fernanda Torres is nominated
Speaker 1: for Best Actress and a very cool story here only two, right, Andy,
Speaker 1: I'll let you speak to it. Only two Brazilian women
Speaker 1: have ever been nominated in this category.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's Fernanda and her mom. That's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes me want to watch the movie just
Speaker 2: because of that cool, fun fact. And I think when
Speaker 2: it is available to stream this I even like the
Speaker 2: premise of it. This is a movie that I would see,
Speaker 2: so I actually am looking forward to it. And it's
Speaker 2: you know, I know everyone has their favorites for Best Actress,
Speaker 2: but it'd be really cool that stories somehow she did
Speaker 2: manage to pull out a win, and some people say
Speaker 2: that that could happen. Something to look for. All right,
Speaker 2: we'll move on. I'm laughing, but you'll soon find out why.
Speaker 2: For our next movie, The Substance five Oscars Best Picture,
Speaker 2: Best Actress, Best Director, Makeup and Hairstyling, and Original Screenplay.
Speaker 2: It stars Demi Moore, mar Great Quality and Dennis Quaid.
Speaker 2: Directed by Coraley. I don't want to say her name wrong,
Speaker 2: Coraley far yet, does anyone know how to fier Jay? See?
Speaker 2: I knew I was going to destroy that. This the
Speaker 2: premise of this movie is super cool, and this is
Speaker 2: what drew me into it and made me want to
Speaker 2: see it from the beginning. It's an aged out celebrity
Speaker 2: decides to take a mystery drug with the promise of
Speaker 2: a younger, better version of herself. Well, things go wild,
Speaker 2: to say the least, and it gets It goes from
Speaker 2: being wild to crazy to perhaps even surreal. At the end.
Speaker 2: Box office gross on this movie seventy seven million. You
Speaker 2: can watch it if you want to pay for it
Speaker 2: video on demand now where you stream your shows. Two
Speaker 2: hours and twenty minutes is the runtime. Rotten Tomatoes score
Speaker 2: was eighty nine percent. This one has several picture nominations
Speaker 2: Best Picture nominations. Tom Moore already won the Golden Globe
Speaker 2: for Best Actress. She certainly is. She's that acceptance speech
Speaker 2: she gave at the Gold Globes. Some people have said
Speaker 2: that was probably an acceptance speech that got a lot
Speaker 2: of miles to it because she talked about being called
Speaker 2: a popcorn actress early on in her career, and now
Speaker 2: she's been legitimized with this role. So a lot of
Speaker 2: folks are this is the big thing. Whether Demi Moore
Speaker 2: will win Best Actress or not at the Oscars this weekend,
Speaker 2: So we'll go around and get everyone's take on their
Speaker 2: first impressions of this movie. Andy, how about you?
Speaker 3: Amazing?
Speaker 6: I loved it, amazing, but very nauseous.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad I saw it.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it and thought it was incredibly unique
Speaker 2: and entertaining.
Speaker 1: What the actual fuck.
Speaker 2: Was my first impress You actually had a very visceral
Speaker 2: emotional reaction to the movie, especially in the last part
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to and I get the first I was
Speaker 1: hooked the premise, the idea Demi Moore that, oh, this
Speaker 1: movie started out with a very original it was a
Speaker 1: cool story. It just it went into an area in
Speaker 1: the end. What this was for me, it was an
Speaker 1: unpleasant viewing experience. I found myself actually uncomfortable or squirming
Speaker 1: or not wanting to look at the television. I found
Speaker 1: myself finding the story or the events so absurd at
Speaker 1: times that it then for me lost that great message
Speaker 1: and story at the beginning. That's what it was for me,
Speaker 1: And it is the exact opposite I know for a
Speaker 1: lot of folks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and you are a big horror movie fan.
Speaker 2: But you made a very big point to say, Robes,
Speaker 2: I like horror movies, but I do not like body horror,
Speaker 2: and that is exactly what this movie was for me.
Speaker 2: It got a little hard to watch, funny enough, with
Speaker 2: the audio up whoever did the sound that went along
Speaker 2: with the movie, it made what you were seeing even
Speaker 2: more grotesque when you heard what you were seeing. Does
Speaker 2: that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also never thought that I was like squeamish of needles,
Speaker 3: and then the amount of close ups of needles and like,
Speaker 3: I just I was like, I guess the new fear
Speaker 3: has been unlocked because I did not know that I
Speaker 3: was that creeped out by it.
Speaker 7: I already had a developed fear of needles and up
Speaker 7: close shots of blood and stitches, so I was well
Speaker 7: prepared and I was okay during those scenes. Except it
Speaker 7: was so well done with the prosthetics and the angles
Speaker 7: to make you feel so disgusted that I completely appreciated
Speaker 7: the fact that I felt that way, but I could
Speaker 7: not sit like I was actually like Gagnant, I.
Speaker 2: Was so disturbed by a lot of it.
Speaker 5: I almost feel like the movie could have like ended
Speaker 5: thirty minutes early, like it was so much with like
Speaker 5: that whole end part where I was like, like it
Speaker 5: like lost me on the original point of the movie
Speaker 5: that I was so invested in and that I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm so glad that they're like bringing attention to this
Speaker 5: and like the pressure of women to like look a
Speaker 5: specific way for so long forever.
Speaker 4: I also thought it was.
Speaker 5: Just like so interesting, like how physically disgusted I was
Speaker 5: by Dennis Kuwait's character. I was literally repulsed when he
Speaker 5: was eating that like lobster. I was like, or the
Speaker 5: shrimp or whatever. Yeah, I was like, this is more
Speaker 5: disgusting than the needles. And some of the body shots
Speaker 5: to me is like the close up on your face,
Speaker 5: Like I literally could not watch it.
Speaker 3: I was shocked he never got a Best Supporting Actor. No,
Speaker 3: I feel like he shouldn't have been nominated.
Speaker 4: Or market quality. I feel like she got no love.
Speaker 3: I feel like she.
Speaker 1: Was so good.
Speaker 2: She was she was excellent. So that was shocking to
Speaker 2: me because I think both of them deserved They were
Speaker 2: a huge part of making me like that movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this Quaid's character did exactly what you He was
Speaker 1: a filthy discuss. You just hated him, hated him, but
Speaker 1: he played his role, so I wash, he nothing. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen him anywhere good nominated for.
Speaker 3: Em like mentioned it. I don't think it's fair.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that stuff works. But he was
Speaker 1: a very integral part of that movie being disgusting.
Speaker 2: Agreed, And I completely think he got robbed on that one,
Speaker 2: as so did Margaret. I completely agree with all of that. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know it's funny, Sidney. You pointed this out, and
Speaker 2: I know TJ believes this too. But it got to
Speaker 2: the point where I loved some of the shocking parts
Speaker 2: of the movie, even the gross parts of the movie,
Speaker 2: but at the end it just got silly, and I
Speaker 2: like funny. I like, I'll take gross, I'll take shocking.
Speaker 2: I don't really like silly, and it felt like it
Speaker 2: got silly at the end. She's like, it's still me
Speaker 2: like crying out of some body part that I don't
Speaker 2: want to laugh like in that way at a horror movie.
Speaker 2: I love horror comedy, but when it's unintended humor, that
Speaker 2: for me is where it slightly missed the mark.
Speaker 1: But look, everybody's a lot of folks said this was
Speaker 1: This movie got standing ovations in places. This is a
Speaker 1: movie that people looked at and the shock of it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the draw of it, and the
Speaker 1: beauty of it, to a certain degree was what they
Speaker 1: were doing. It was just entirely too much for me.
Speaker 1: So with that, I'll start with me when we go
Speaker 1: around and ask would you recommend this to her friend?
Speaker 1: And why? Uh huh? Why would I not? Because I
Speaker 1: want you to keep your food down after dinner.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I say that somewhat jokingly. It's just it was a hard,
Speaker 1: hard watch. But to me more who she was incredible
Speaker 1: in that.
Speaker 5: Movie, so good the scene where she was like wiping
Speaker 5: off her makeup that I would watch that scene, just
Speaker 5: that scene again. I was just like, that was so
Speaker 5: Also I saw us on TikTok Ray Liota was suposed
Speaker 5: to play Dennis Quade's character and then he passed away.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, I could have seen that. That actually
Speaker 2: made oh yeah, playing the Dennis Wade character. So I
Speaker 2: totally can see that. That makes sense to me, I
Speaker 2: just like too much.
Speaker 5: I also saw this on TikTok that they made Margaret
Speaker 5: Qualley or like had her where like some sort of
Speaker 5: like fake boobs or something like that, which I just
Speaker 5: thought was so interesting. Because she's like the perfect, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like she's supposed to be like
Speaker 5: the perfect. It's like so interesting that even like what
Speaker 5: everyone was like aspiring to look like, even that on
Speaker 5: the behind the scenes, it's like, wasn't wasn't they still
Speaker 5: had to like do something irony.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the irony exactly.
Speaker 3: I think that's interesting.
Speaker 2: We do have it tough, Yeah, we do, Sidney, would
Speaker 2: you recommend it?
Speaker 5: I honestly like, I feel like everyone says should see
Speaker 5: this movie, Emma.
Speaker 6: I agree.
Speaker 7: I think I love the underlining meaning behind it because
Speaker 7: I feel like something like that is so in our future,
Speaker 7: and so I.
Speaker 6: Love the plot and I love the way I felt
Speaker 6: during the movie, even though I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to feel that way.
Speaker 6: But I would totally recommend it.
Speaker 3: Andy, one hundred percent. And just another little behind the
Speaker 3: scenes thing. I work on a podcast and they interviewed
Speaker 3: the producer of this movie and she said the original
Speaker 3: cut that she flew out to Paris to watch with
Speaker 3: Coraley was four and a half hours, and the last
Speaker 3: scene where it just goes off the rails was thirty
Speaker 3: minutes longer. Oh, every single thing in that script was filmed,
Speaker 3: and she just made a four and a half hour cut,
Speaker 3: So there does exist a four and a half hour
Speaker 3: cut at this movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait till that's released on streaming.
Speaker 3: For sure, we'll watch it together.
Speaker 2: And I would absolutely recommend it as well, because yes,
Speaker 2: I just I liked it. I just liked it from
Speaker 2: a storytelling standpoint, but I think the women in this
Speaker 2: room also know, and being the oldest woman and person
Speaker 2: in this room, I related to it on another level
Speaker 2: as well. You know, you start to see your peers,
Speaker 2: people who might just be a little bit older than you,
Speaker 2: doing drastic things to try and look younger, and and
Speaker 2: I always you know, I I've asked people to check me.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't ever you want to look the
Speaker 2: best you can, but you also don't want to be
Speaker 2: desperate to look like something you can't ever fully attain.
Speaker 2: And so I think the message in the movie I
Speaker 2: definitely spoke to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was like never enough to exactly that,
Speaker 5: and that I feel like it's just so like with
Speaker 5: ozembic plastic surgery fillers everything, it's like you're never going
Speaker 5: to reach that perfect and people keep going like and
Speaker 5: just as a woman, that movie just really absolutely and.
Speaker 2: Some people do go to the point where I don't
Speaker 2: want to say they look grotesque, but it's it's it's
Speaker 2: not a better version of what they would have had
Speaker 2: had they just left.
Speaker 1: Well enough, they certainly drove that home home that point, didn't.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: Can we just talk about it, okay.
Speaker 3: I also think it's cool though, that horror got its moment,
Speaker 3: because horror never gets its moment. At the Academy Awards,
Speaker 3: it he was.
Speaker 2: We had this argument because he was like, that wasn't horror,
Speaker 2: that was a horror movie.
Speaker 6: Yet I actually have a point.
Speaker 1: Okay, Emma, you're not. We're gonna we're gonna be on
Speaker 1: the same page. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 7: So actually I discussed this with my roommate Abby. We
Speaker 7: broke it down into three parts, the first part being horror,
Speaker 7: the second part being a thriller, in the third part
Speaker 7: being a comedy.
Speaker 2: Oh, I could get behind that.
Speaker 1: You tell me the end was supposed to be comedic.
Speaker 2: Well it was ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it is supposed to be a dark comedy
Speaker 3: at the end, like you're supposed to laugh at it.
Speaker 1: I think Emma's earlier point about you you're going with
Speaker 1: an expectation. I thought this was this, and that was this.
Speaker 1: I think I didn't know it was a horror movie.
Speaker 1: If I had known that, I think I might have
Speaker 1: received it differently. I did not. This was a straight
Speaker 1: up there was a monster in this movie. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that was happening. Yeah, I didn't know that
Speaker 1: was happening. All right, last, let's then not a happy note,
Speaker 1: shall we? Well kind of I had issues with this
Speaker 1: one at the end. All right, folks, Wicked, Wicked. Here
Speaker 1: it is ten Oscars, and it's important to tell you
Speaker 1: which ones they're nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best
Speaker 1: Supporting Actress, Visual Effects, sound Editing, original score, makeup, hair styling,
Speaker 1: costume design, and production design. Of course, this star is
Speaker 1: Cynthia Orrivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, but you also got
Speaker 1: Peter Dinklegen. Here, you got Jeff Goldblum, you got Michelle Yo.
Speaker 1: Directed by John M. Chew. This was adapted, of course,
Speaker 1: from the hit musical. It traces the origins of the
Speaker 1: friendship and falling out between Alphaba and Glinda, the two
Speaker 1: characters we came to know as the Wicked Witch of
Speaker 1: the West and Glinda, the good Witch. This one seven
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight million dollars at the box office.
Speaker 1: It is available to rent or buy on demand right now.
Speaker 1: It'll be on Peacock on March twenty first, that has
Speaker 1: been announced. Runtime two hours, forty minutes. Rotten Tomato score
Speaker 1: eighty eight percent. It has been nominated for several awards,
Speaker 1: but it's been getting beat out in all the major
Speaker 1: ones because of it's got stiff competition, of course, but
Speaker 1: it did pick up the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Speaker 1: Award at the Golden Globes. Andy first impression of Wicked.
Speaker 1: I liked it.
Speaker 4: Chills this delivered for me.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 1: Cynthia Rivo is my hero, I think. Is my first
Speaker 1: impression of this movie. I've seen everybody here seeing her
Speaker 1: on stage seen Wicked? Yes, No, you haven't seen it
Speaker 1: on stage?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Did anybody here did? I don't know if you did, Robes,
Speaker 1: maybe you're the only one I should ask is did
Speaker 1: you see the Chennaw? Did you ever see her on stage?
Speaker 2: So I did. I actually saw it when it first
Speaker 2: came out with Christian Chenawi as Glinda or Glinda. Yes,
Speaker 2: and that was mind blowing to me. And then I
Speaker 2: saw it a second time after they had already come
Speaker 2: and gone. So I've seen it twice and I thought
Speaker 2: this movie was incredible. I love the nod that they
Speaker 2: gave to the originals and that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, they're in there. Yeah, everybody knows that
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: It was I thought, just with what they can do,
Speaker 2: uh with movies, and it just it brought it to
Speaker 2: an even more colorful, beautiful life than the stage even
Speaker 2: was able to know.
Speaker 1: You said this, you said they create the worlds they
Speaker 1: were able to create.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the final scene defying gravity, I mean,
Speaker 2: I had chills from head to toe. I wanted to
Speaker 2: run to go see the second installment. In that moment,
Speaker 2: I was ready for another two hours and forty minutes. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's how much I loved it.
Speaker 5: I agree, this is the only one I thought saw
Speaker 5: in theaters and this is all which I'm so happy about.
Speaker 5: But this is also the only one that made me
Speaker 5: cry like I did cry at the Ozda Ballroom and
Speaker 5: then also at the end Oh the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anybody else cry watching the I can watch movies,
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: Teary like yes, because I I just like the whole
Speaker 2: concept of the movie. Slash. It was a Broadway show.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like I loved a Dina Menzel and Christian
Speaker 2: Chenna with right there next to Cynthia Rivo and Ariana Grande.
Speaker 2: I just thought the acting, the singing, the way it looked,
Speaker 2: the way it felt, it just it held true to
Speaker 2: its original but made it even better. And that's why
Speaker 2: I just loved it so much.
Speaker 1: Was anybody else taken with I was? I thought Ariana
Speaker 1: Grande had such a great cupmedic for for she was amazing.
Speaker 4: So good and it was like her dream of life
Speaker 4: to play this role.
Speaker 2: And how many people could walk in the shoes of
Speaker 2: Christian Chena with or in the shoes of a Dina Menzel.
Speaker 2: They those are such big shoes to fill. It could
Speaker 2: have gone so wrong if they didn't cast it correctly.
Speaker 2: But those two were the perfect people to step in
Speaker 2: and bring it to life and film. I thought I.
Speaker 3: Would see it like passed on to this new generation
Speaker 3: of people that that's going to be there. Glinda and Alphabet.
Speaker 3: I think that's really nice.
Speaker 7: I loved it so Amanda Siegfrid, Yes, I don't know
Speaker 7: if I'm pronouncing her last same correct. She auditioned for Glinda,
Speaker 7: And although I think she's amazing.
Speaker 6: She was amazing in Mama Mia.
Speaker 7: But knowing that, how you couldn't have casted it better
Speaker 7: than Ariana.
Speaker 6: I believe she.
Speaker 2: Was the perfect And you know what, I don't know
Speaker 2: how much I knew of Ariana Grande's acting abilities because
Speaker 2: I just obviously she's got a phenomenal voice.
Speaker 6: But she have you seen her on SNL?
Speaker 2: Yes, you know what, and she is really good on SNL.
Speaker 2: You're right, you're right. But I was really impressed with
Speaker 2: her acting chops, like really impressed.
Speaker 1: You know it sounds great. I can't remember the name
Speaker 1: of the show, but Sabine used to have me watching
Speaker 1: the show she was on that was victorious. She used
Speaker 1: to have me watching the show. Yeah, I could not
Speaker 1: believe it.
Speaker 6: She was kind of had an airy voice, but she
Speaker 6: was funny.
Speaker 1: But she was funny and she that had that hair
Speaker 1: twirl she does throughout this movie. She was She was
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise. I love Cynthia Rivo. There was something
Speaker 1: about her character that's crazy as sounds I related to
Speaker 1: to some degree, but just seeing how she was, she
Speaker 1: brought a level of swagger I guess to Alphaba that
Speaker 1: I didn't anticipate.
Speaker 2: She was.
Speaker 1: I loved how she nailed Alphaba her Lock. Her singing
Speaker 1: talent is we don't need to discuss. But she I loved, loved,
Speaker 1: loved her in a way I didn't anticipate. I think,
Speaker 1: I guess the two leads. I just I was kind
Speaker 1: of blown away by the two of them. I would
Speaker 1: not have gone to the theater. I would not have
Speaker 1: come to use say hey, wickets coming out, you're gonna
Speaker 1: go see it. I would never have done that. If
Speaker 1: you wanted me to go, I would have gone with you.
Speaker 1: But this is not one I naturally would gravitate towards.
Speaker 4: Do you want to see Part two in the theaters?
Speaker 2: I mean, he will?
Speaker 5: I think it's so good in theaters, Like, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 5: I was like so in that world, like for that
Speaker 5: amount of time, know how long it is, but like
Speaker 5: I was like not even thinking about anything else, Like
Speaker 5: I was just there, like it was so good.
Speaker 1: It was one of those things I would never elect,
Speaker 1: even you saying wicked too, Like no, I would never say, hey,
Speaker 1: it's coming out, let's go see it. It's not my lane.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not the who they're marketing towards. But
Speaker 1: still there is not one issue I have with this movie.
Speaker 1: It is wonderful from start to finish. Everybody should see it,
Speaker 1: but still I wouldn't go to the theater to see it.
Speaker 2: It's the one, I just say one. But it kind
Speaker 2: of is the one feel good movie of this sponge
Speaker 2: I feel like it is. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: Why was I pissed at the end? I was still mad?
Speaker 2: Maybe because I was singing no, no, I want to
Speaker 2: go to the movie theater where you can sing along.
Speaker 2: That would be so fun.
Speaker 1: Bring there was something about the ending and I can't
Speaker 1: remember the story. Wait a minute, what do they do
Speaker 1: with Wicket? They don't they This is all the stage.
Speaker 2: Story, the first one. Now we're an intermission and we'll
Speaker 2: wait for part two, which would be the second.
Speaker 1: But they don't won't take new liberties with the story.
Speaker 1: This is still the Wicked too, is going to be
Speaker 1: what I've seen on stage? Correct? Okay? There was something
Speaker 1: about this the way this one ended that I was upset.
Speaker 2: Really, I thought it was incredibly powerful.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ride off with Alphabet. There was something
Speaker 1: about it. I was still upset, not at the movie, but.
Speaker 2: I wanted more. You wanted to see where Alphabet was
Speaker 2: going to take us next.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there we have it. We've gone through the
Speaker 1: ten movies now, so now we're going to get to
Speaker 1: the point where we ask everybody in this room. Our
Speaker 1: super producers Andy, Emma and Sydney as well as Robot
Speaker 1: and I are going to tell you who we think
Speaker 1: should be the winners of the major categories. We're only
Speaker 1: going to do best Picture, and we're going to do
Speaker 1: what we say, best Active, Best Actress, and we leave
Speaker 1: it that that worked for you, guys. That's what everybody's seen,
Speaker 1: all right. I don't know who wants to start. Where
Speaker 1: should we start? You know what, just because I know
Speaker 1: she'll be annoyed by it, Let's start with Emma. Let's
Speaker 1: start with Emma. Best Picture, Best Actor, Actor, and Best Actress.
Speaker 1: Who is your best actress?
Speaker 6: Best Actress?
Speaker 7: I I think I would go with Cynthia Rivo because
Speaker 7: I didn't know who she was before and her performance
Speaker 7: was stunning. I am so enthralled by her vocals. I'm
Speaker 7: just all for singing and beautiful voices.
Speaker 3: She just deserves to win Best Actress.
Speaker 5: I think Best Actresses maybe the hardest category for me.
Speaker 5: I feel like that's it's so there's so many good names,
Speaker 5: but I would say Mikey Madison and Anora.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Demi Moore. I think it's her
Speaker 3: best role and I think again it breaks boundaries for
Speaker 3: the horror genre. It would be cool for that to
Speaker 3: get the representation it deserves. And Demi Moore, I think
Speaker 3: has had such a long career she earned it.
Speaker 2: I love that. I'm gonna have to go with Mikey
Speaker 2: Madison because I was just blown away at her performance
Speaker 2: and how authentic it was. But I wouldn't be upset
Speaker 2: if to me one as well.
Speaker 1: Mikey Madison. She's like, I will go campaign for her.
Speaker 1: This was such a cool I just fell. I could
Speaker 1: not believe what she did on screen. I thought it
Speaker 1: was incredible. Best Actress Mikey Madison for me as well.
Speaker 1: Best Actor? Who you got Andy?
Speaker 3: I really thought Adrian Brody was great. But I yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think who else is nominated in that one.
Speaker 2: Timothy Shallamy is the other big front runner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but maybe Ralph finds two. I really thought like
Speaker 3: he's kind of has the deme of it all too
Speaker 3: where he hasn't won an Oscar, and I think he's
Speaker 3: due for one, and I think the performance was so nuanced,
Speaker 3: so I wouldn't be mad if he got it, but
Speaker 3: I'd also be totally fine with Adrian Brody getting it.
Speaker 7: I am so Timothy shallamet movies up there that's incredible,
Speaker 7: and he in my eyes, he can do no wrong.
Speaker 5: I think mine is Ralph Findes because he made that
Speaker 5: movie for me his acting, and I actually had never
Speaker 5: seen him in anything before. I didn't know who that was,
Speaker 5: and I just thought he was so, so, so amazing cool.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Adrian Brody, not only because I
Speaker 2: think he was phenomenal what he did, but it'll make
Speaker 2: me having seen the Brutalists, It just it makes it
Speaker 2: feel all worth it. Having been able to see his
Speaker 2: performance and then him winning, I can be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I watched that movie. I saw him.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to go away. And in all fairness,
Speaker 1: we didn't get a chance to see a completely unknown
Speaker 1: so we can't compare it to what Timothy Shalamay has done.
Speaker 1: He now is viewed as the only competition really for
Speaker 1: Ray Fines after he excuse me, for Adrian Brody after
Speaker 1: which was the Big Screen Actors Guild. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: just Adrian Brody is. You can't take your eyes off
Speaker 1: of him, and I just don't know how people do that.
Speaker 1: He is an actor on a different scale. He is
Speaker 1: just incredible, So yes, he has to be the guy.
Speaker 2: All right. Now we come to Best Picture, Andy, what
Speaker 2: is your pick for Best Picture?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: With June too, but I wouldn't be mad if The
Speaker 3: Substance or Nickel Boys also won, or Concleeve.
Speaker 1: You just picked five movies, man, I picked four. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a count.
Speaker 2: Emma, how about you Best Picture?
Speaker 7: I don't think it's gonna win Best Picture, but I'm
Speaker 7: going to go with a complete unknown because I just personally.
Speaker 2: Loved it and you didn't see anything else. WHOA, I'm
Speaker 2: just teasing you. That sounds like something I would say that,
Speaker 2: So good, all right, Sidney, Best Picture?
Speaker 5: I just think overall, from like acting to directing, for me,
Speaker 5: it's wicked.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, cool, all right? The best picture for me
Speaker 2: is Anora. I just thought from the acting to the
Speaker 2: storytelling and just my level of.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: I was riveted. I didn't want the movie to end,
Speaker 2: and a lot of the other movies I did want
Speaker 2: them to end, So Anora for me is my for
Speaker 2: Best Pictures?
Speaker 1: Is that fair to say? Honora was my favorite movie?
Speaker 1: But I think the Brutalist and Conclave might deserve.
Speaker 4: The Oscar me too. It was my favorite movie.
Speaker 5: NOA was the one that But it's not who I
Speaker 5: think is going to win Best we will.
Speaker 1: I will be rooting for Anora. I will be rooting
Speaker 1: for Mikey Madison. But when they say Conclave and Brutalists,
Speaker 1: I will stand up and cheer. Those movies are just
Speaker 1: on a different there.
Speaker 2: Just I agree, And you know what, thank you all
Speaker 2: for agreeing to spend all of these hours watching all
Speaker 2: of these movies. This is the first time I have
Speaker 2: ever watched this many movies. And DJ and I have
Speaker 2: both reported and covered the Oscars. We've been on the
Speaker 2: red carpet, and I still in those years had not.
Speaker 1: Wanted to never seen this movies that I have.
Speaker 5: This is my thing, Like I'm going to do this
Speaker 5: every single year now, Like.
Speaker 4: It was so fun and I feel so cultured. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: you haven't seen that.
Speaker 2: And how much fun is Sunday night going to be? Now? Oh?
Speaker 4: I'm throwing an Oscars party. I'm literally so.
Speaker 1: You know what, that is really good. Cool, but you
Speaker 1: didn't want to jump in and correct you what you said.
Speaker 1: You want to think all of them for watching all
Speaker 1: the movies with us. You mean Andy and Sydney.
Speaker 2: Oh right, she gets like a partial a partial bit
Speaker 2: of my gratitude.
Speaker 1: A partying dig I'm okay with them again, folks, if
Speaker 1: you want to go watch them, twenty five hobs and
Speaker 1: twenty nine minutes of your life are waiting. But hope
Speaker 1: you got something. It has some fun with us, because
Speaker 1: we did have fun watching them. And congrats to all
Speaker 1: of these movie makers. Look the matter. If you like
Speaker 1: the movie, you don't like the movie, These are their lives.
Speaker 1: The livelihoods is their arts, and they spend a whole
Speaker 1: lifetime putting this stuff together and getting to this point.
Speaker 1: This is movie making on the grandest scale. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: them all. But we will be rooting for them on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have an Oscar party, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be competing with Sydney's. Apparently we should
Speaker 1: get our messages out to our friends.
Speaker 5: Oscar party for all of us at Amy and TJ's house.
Speaker 2: That's a consideration. But thank you all for listening. Hope
Speaker 2: you all had some fun, and yeah, if you have
Speaker 2: some time, check out your favorites and we can all
Speaker 2: talk about the Oscars. We'll definitely have a podcast talking
Speaker 2: about what happened, who won, who didn't, and what we
Speaker 2: think about it all, so stay tuned for that. But
Speaker 2: in the meantime, I have a wonderful thing