Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, Yes it is Oscar's weekend, and oh no,
Speaker 1: you have not watched all the Best Picture nominees. What
Speaker 1: we did so you didn't have to. Movie number two
Speaker 1: on our list that will get you caught up on
Speaker 1: with the cliff notes is one battle after another.
Speaker 2: Woo.
Speaker 3: Yes, this was a battle for me to keep watching.
Speaker 3: It was an epic, overwhelming movie that certainly had a
Speaker 3: lot of storytelling and incredible acting, but it has thirteen nominations,
Speaker 3: so just behind Sinners. It is up for Best Actor,
Speaker 3: Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Picture,
Speaker 3: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score,
Speaker 3: Best Achievement and Production Design, and Best Achievement in Film Editing.
Speaker 1: The cast is a Hella cast that is nominated throughout.
Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio gives a hell love a performance and this
Speaker 1: when Sean Penn gives a memorable performance in this one.
Speaker 1: Teyana Taylor, who has been the darling really you could
Speaker 1: argue of the whole Awards season, picked up the Golden Globe.
Speaker 1: She is nominated as well. But Nicio del Toro is
Speaker 1: in this one as well as Regina Hall, playing a
Speaker 1: pretty memorable character as well. This one directed by Paul
Speaker 1: Thomas Anderson and Robes. This is the one, I guess
Speaker 1: you would have to argue this is it feels like
Speaker 1: the front runner.
Speaker 3: It does if only because of just that cast. Those
Speaker 3: names you just named. We're not just talking about any
Speaker 3: old actresses, a lot of famous names. These are accomplished,
Speaker 3: award winning actors on any movie.
Speaker 2: If they were just the only.
Speaker 3: Actor in a movie, you would watch probably or go
Speaker 3: to the theaters perhaps just to see one of those
Speaker 3: actors do their thing. You have all of them together
Speaker 3: in this film, and they are award winning performances, each
Speaker 3: and every one of them.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was the biggest takeaway.
Speaker 3: I just was impressed with the acting chops.
Speaker 2: Of all of these folks.
Speaker 3: Sean Pen you mentioned he really was a standout in
Speaker 3: terms of his performance.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 3: He almost always as memorable, I feel like, but he
Speaker 3: was exceptionally memorable in this film.
Speaker 1: This one did make money two hundred and nine million
Speaker 1: dollars at the box office. If you don't know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly clear, I'll be honest with you, Robes, I
Speaker 1: wasn't in all the previews and all the buzz. If
Speaker 1: you would have asked me ahead of time before we
Speaker 1: saw it, what's the movie about.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: It's about one battle after another in a life of strife,
Speaker 3: in a life of standing up for what you believe in,
Speaker 3: perhaps in anarchy, you know it.
Speaker 2: There was this This was a heavy movie. I think
Speaker 2: that was what was hard for me.
Speaker 3: It was a heavy movie that was showing a really
Speaker 3: difficult life for a lot of characters trying to do good,
Speaker 3: trying to pursue what they believed in at all costs,
Speaker 3: despite what it cost them. But it was it was
Speaker 3: exhausting to watch, but also at the same time entertaining.
Speaker 1: Well, that didn't clear things up for you about what
Speaker 1: the movie's about. Here's the official synopsis, because I still
Speaker 1: I think to this day, if you asked me was
Speaker 1: it about, I would well, there's a guy, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't exactly have it, But this is the synopsis. Bob
Speaker 1: is a washed up revolutionary who lives in a state
Speaker 1: of stoned paranoia, surviving off grid with his spirited and
Speaker 1: self reliant daughter Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and
Speaker 1: Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her
Speaker 1: as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their past.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, it's heavy. This is based on what
Speaker 1: a book, right, I believe so?
Speaker 3: And look this, Like I said, the performances were incredible
Speaker 3: and half the time I was trying to figure out.
Speaker 2: Actually what was going on.
Speaker 3: And when we first started watching at Taana Taylor is
Speaker 3: just like this, She's jumping off the screen. How about
Speaker 3: when she was with her pregnant belly with a with
Speaker 3: a assault rifle. I mean, she is a badass in
Speaker 3: this film. And at first I thought, wait, how is
Speaker 3: she only nominated for Best Supporting Actress?
Speaker 2: But then you understand she goes away for a while.
Speaker 3: But the first I don't know, fifteen to twenty minutes,
Speaker 3: she is just the star of the show.
Speaker 4: You say she goes away a while, she goes away
Speaker 4: for good.
Speaker 2: She goes, Yes, her memory lives on.
Speaker 1: Not suggesting she dies. We're not giving anything away here,
Speaker 1: but I was a little surprised that Teiana Taylor was
Speaker 1: not in the movie as much as I was expected,
Speaker 1: as much as she was being talked about. Now it
Speaker 1: is rated R R R R. Yes, because some of
Speaker 1: the themes, not even the violence. At some of the
Speaker 1: stuff did we watch The Swissy beIN.
Speaker 3: We watched The Swiss Bean and I wasn't gonna say
Speaker 3: it unless you did.
Speaker 4: But looks, what about The Bad Parents.
Speaker 3: Look, I've been somebody who has absolutely exposed my children
Speaker 3: to rated our movies way before the age of seventeen.
Speaker 2: So yeah, she did watch it with us.
Speaker 4: What we fast forwarded at times? Oh my goods.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you fast forwarded through several scenes.
Speaker 3: That's the only tough thing about watching you rated our
Speaker 3: movie with a thirteen year old.
Speaker 2: You got to have the remote handy to fast forward.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you watch this with a child or
Speaker 1: someone you're concerned about their age, anytime you see Tayama
Speaker 1: Taylor and Sean Penn on the screen at the same time,
Speaker 1: you need fast forward through that.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
Speaker 4: Yes, fast for you know.
Speaker 3: What, That's a really good pro tip for folks who
Speaker 3: have watched it and want to have family movie night,
Speaker 3: maybe leading up to the hospital, be warned.
Speaker 4: About this will be a different family night.
Speaker 2: It certainly is now rotten tomatoes.
Speaker 3: Look this is the critics gave it ninety four percent,
Speaker 3: audience eighty five percent, But look, some of that eighty
Speaker 3: five percent might have been the run time because I'm
Speaker 3: not kidding.
Speaker 2: That's where I.
Speaker 3: Land on this, because look, the movie was great. I
Speaker 3: just I think it's really hard. I think it's really
Speaker 3: hard to hold.
Speaker 2: An audience's.
Speaker 3: Tension when you go past two hours and ten fifteen minutes,
Speaker 3: so you're at two hours and forty one minutes long movie.
Speaker 3: That is an epic movie in my humble opinion, And
Speaker 3: I would never I'll be truthful, if we weren't doing
Speaker 3: this movie review or this catchup for folks leading up
Speaker 3: to the Oscars. I don't think that I would have
Speaker 3: sat down to watch that ever, despite all of the buzz,
Speaker 3: I would have been slightly curious. And then when I
Speaker 3: saw the run time of two hours and forty one minutes,
Speaker 3: I would have said, Nah, that's just how.
Speaker 1: We are, and we don't want to take away from
Speaker 1: what is an excellent, an incredible and skill skillful movie
Speaker 1: that we saw pulled off. It would not robes you
Speaker 1: make that point. We have Before the Oscar thing even
Speaker 1: came up that we decided to do this, we talked
Speaker 1: over and over, you want to watch one battlet.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 1: Because we hear great things and it looks like an
Speaker 1: action movie don look like some boring film. Robes we
Speaker 1: never said okay, And the other part that goes with this,
Speaker 1: we still haven't seen Avatar too. That is such a
Speaker 1: good because of the length of them, Like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: an investment of time.
Speaker 4: We have to sit down and commit. That's just us.
Speaker 4: Other people go, hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see this, can't wait and die.
Speaker 1: But for us, it's just that runtime is exhausting and Robes,
Speaker 1: the themes in here are exhausting and heavy. How many days
Speaker 1: did it take us to watch this one?
Speaker 3: I believe we had to. We had to pick it
Speaker 3: back up a second day. This we have a four dayer,
Speaker 3: which we'll explain later. This one took us two days.
Speaker 3: But look this it was described. It was interesting because
Speaker 3: I was trying to figure out what the genre is
Speaker 3: and Wikipedia says it's a black comedy action thriller.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's a fair way to put it.
Speaker 2: I didn't get much comedy.
Speaker 1: Black comedy even and we watched black comedies dark comedy?
Speaker 4: Should say comedies does.
Speaker 2: Say black dark comedy dark? I think they meant to
Speaker 2: say dark.
Speaker 4: Because only you like black comedies. Anything with Kevin Hart,
Speaker 4: I love, No, No, but.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, that's so funny.
Speaker 3: But that's Wikipedia says it's a black comedy action thriller film.
Speaker 2: I didn't get I didn't I didn't remember laughing. I
Speaker 2: don't remember laughing.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a funny line at all at all in
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to think of something comed Now, Leonardo
Speaker 1: DiCaprio was intense, and he was he There is some
Speaker 1: hilarity in the way he goes about sometimes in his
Speaker 1: movies being stressed out. I remember him from what's the
Speaker 1: the Gangster movie The U with Nick Jack Nichola.
Speaker 4: Why do I always do this?
Speaker 2: Try to come and I'm like, I'm so bad at
Speaker 2: recalling things. When you asked me on this.
Speaker 1: Depart he was stressed out in that movie.
Speaker 4: The way he's stressed out in this one. They're similar
Speaker 4: in a lot of ways. And sometimes he.
Speaker 1: Is so intense that there is something kind of comedic
Speaker 1: about his performance and make fun.
Speaker 2: Of it's so disturbing, it's comical.
Speaker 1: He stressed out, like he was on the phone in
Speaker 1: this movie at one point, just stressed out, and he's
Speaker 1: hilarious sometimes, So that part in the intensity that is
Speaker 1: all there, but rogues funny, like was there even a
Speaker 1: character that offers some comedicals.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: And Lo Bonicio del Toro, how was he in this one?
Speaker 2: He's not known for being funny.
Speaker 4: Oh he's hilarious.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess the dark comedy that might be
Speaker 3: part of it. But look, I also want to say
Speaker 3: that I loved she didn't get an Oscar nod, but
Speaker 3: Chase Infinity, the daughter of who plays the daughter of
Speaker 3: well we won't say who.
Speaker 4: But she sold.
Speaker 2: I thought she did a phenomenal joke.
Speaker 3: But this was also a note And this speaks to
Speaker 3: why we're actually maybe even letting people in on this
Speaker 3: because yes, it did two hundred and nine million dollars
Speaker 3: in the box office, but it had a budget that
Speaker 3: was close to that. So this was the most expensive
Speaker 3: film of this director's career, and it definitely underperformed what
Speaker 3: they were hoping it would at the box office. But
Speaker 3: I really I think that two hours and forty one
Speaker 3: minutes was the reason why people wouldn't go like that.
Speaker 3: That is a huge investment in time on our Friday
Speaker 3: night or when people But.
Speaker 1: It got him how many Oscar nominations thirteen? Okay, that's
Speaker 1: all that matters. He's gonna work forever in Holly. Would
Speaker 1: you got thirty? He produced this film. If this movie
Speaker 1: would have been an hour forty five, yeah, maybe it'd
Speaker 1: have made more money but gotten fewer nominations.
Speaker 4: I don't know how that works, Robes.
Speaker 1: But this is a two hour and forty one minute
Speaker 1: movie that we struggled to watch with actors we love,
Speaker 1: absolutely adore.
Speaker 4: And we were tonight, oh not tonight.
Speaker 2: Nice, We were kicking the can.
Speaker 4: We were.
Speaker 1: However, we still will tell you watch it or skip it?
Speaker 4: Stay here all right?
Speaker 1: Movie number two on our list as we get through
Speaker 1: the cliff notes for you if you haven't watched them all,
Speaker 1: One Battle after another two hours and forty one minutes
Speaker 1: rated are Leonardo DiCaprio at the head of this one,
Speaker 1: also nominated for Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson two
Speaker 1: hours and forty one minutes roped. It is a hell
Speaker 1: of a movie to behold. Would you recommend it? Watch it?
Speaker 4: Skip it?
Speaker 3: So this is me being honest, and I might be
Speaker 3: people might throsciade at me for saying this, but I
Speaker 3: would not recommend this.
Speaker 2: I think you. I mean, am I glad I watched it?
Speaker 3: I guess only because when watching the Oscars, I'll know
Speaker 3: what they're talking about. You know, so often you have
Speaker 3: Conan O'Brien or whoever the host is making funny, veiled
Speaker 3: references to the best picture films, and I hate feeling
Speaker 3: clueless about what he's referring to, so at least I'll
Speaker 3: be in the know. But short of that, just from
Speaker 3: a pure entertainment worth my time concept, I would say
Speaker 3: you could skip it. I don't know that I got
Speaker 3: anything that I'm taking with me from it, or that
Speaker 3: i'll remember dearly from it, or that I would ever
Speaker 3: want to rewatch it, how about you.
Speaker 4: That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when we go out, we go you ask me
Speaker 1: how I liked the dish I have at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: and I'll say, you know what, I wouldn't order it again.
Speaker 1: And I would say that about this movie, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: order it again. But I would recommend you can't miss
Speaker 1: Sean Penn, I think lean. I would recommend the acting.
Speaker 1: I would recommend the like the movie making is kind
Speaker 1: of excellent in a way that you are you looking go,
Speaker 1: you really appreciate what you're watching. I recommend you have
Speaker 1: to watch it on the basis of this is well
Speaker 1: done and quality movie making. Do not watch this if
Speaker 1: you're looking to be to have a good Friday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I yes, And if you look I would
Speaker 3: recommend it if you're well rested and you watch it
Speaker 3: maybe early enough where you don't have the risk of
Speaker 3: going to sleep, because that is the full disclosure here.
Speaker 2: We did fall asleep.
Speaker 4: We fell asleep, as you said, two days on this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we do not probably get no, not probably,
Speaker 3: we do not get the recommended allowance of sleep each night.
Speaker 2: So then you compound that at the end of.
Speaker 3: The week when you try to watch a two hour
Speaker 3: and forty one minute movie at starting at about seven
Speaker 3: eight o'clock at night, it's gonna have to be a
Speaker 3: riveting movie to keep us up.
Speaker 2: And so this one definitely lost us.
Speaker 3: We had to pick up where we left off and rewatched,
Speaker 3: and sometimes.
Speaker 2: I had to rewind because we didn't even know where
Speaker 2: we left off. I just think that needs to be noted.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna take this on, just make sure you're
Speaker 3: well rested and maybe have a caffeinated beverage with you.
Speaker 4: That's I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: This is not again a suggestion of right, it's almost
Speaker 1: like you do a review of a movie and then
Speaker 1: a review of a movie experience, and this movie should
Speaker 1: be reviewed with the highest marks as far as the
Speaker 1: movie experience. Maybe so, and again it's a different type
Speaker 1: of movie. Not to take anything away, this is excellent
Speaker 1: movie making. But for us, it was a struggle for
Speaker 1: a couple of days.
Speaker 2: It was one battle after another, staking away.
Speaker 4: To watch this.
Speaker 1: That's just us, all right. Yes, so this is movie
Speaker 1: number two on our list. Movie number three that's going
Speaker 1: to be next in the feed. Right next to this
Speaker 1: one will be F one, probably the most.
Speaker 4: Entertaining movie on the list that.
Speaker 1: We can't believe is on the list. We'll see you
Speaker 1: for the next one.