1 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: All right, hey there, folks, it is of course Oscars weekend. 2 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: Let's continue to get you caught up. It's movie number 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: six Hamnet on our list. We hope you took a 4 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: listen to the five movies we did yesterday. We posted 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: those on Saturday to get you caught up, and we 6 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: have five more for you today. And yes, the first 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: one we're doing today, which is number six overall that 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: we're doing roads, is Hamnet. 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 2: Yes, and this one has eight nominations this evening for 10 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 2: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Casting, Best Screenplay, 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 2: Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score. 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: This movie was so powerful, it was so emotional. This 13 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: is one of the two on the list that made 14 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: me cry, not just a few tears, but actually booho. 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: Cry, and a lot of that boohooing. And yes has 16 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: to do with themes. What it has to do with 17 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: some of these performances will tell you. The cast here, 18 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: Jesse Buckley, you've been hearing a lot about her, of course, 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: and her performance in this movie. She, of course is 20 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: nominated for Lead Actress. Paul Meskel and then Emily Watson, 21 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: directed by Chloe Jao, already an Oscar winner, and this 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: one did pretty well at the box office. Ninety six 23 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: million people did show up to see it. Now, I 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: had seen some of the previews and it didn't look 25 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: like my cup of tea, and I wasn't exactly sure 26 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,320 Speaker 1: what it was about. Somebody had to tell me what 27 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: it was about. Maybe people know now, yes. 28 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: So, and I actually did a little research on this 29 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 2: because I needed to know how much of it was true. 30 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 2: But the synopsis is this, after losing their son Hamnett 31 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,279 Speaker 2: to the plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief 32 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: in sixteenth century England. A heater, sorry, a healer, Agnes 33 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 2: must find strength to care for her surviving children while 34 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: processing her devastating loss. And so I went on to say, wait, 35 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: how much of this is true? Because the idea in 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: the movie is that, basically William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet based 37 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: on the grief he felt for losing his son to 38 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 2: the plague. And his son's name was Hamnet, which apparently 39 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 2: during those times, is interchangeable with Hamlet. So basically it 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: was a play dedicated to his son, to his late son, 41 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: and I never knew that, so that was completely fascinating 42 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: to me. Now, obviously they took creative licenses, but it's 43 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 2: loosely based on what they believe. 44 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 3: To have happened. All right. 45 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: This one is rated PG thirteen and runs two hours 46 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: and five minutes. And the audience liked it more than 47 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: the critics, But the critics liked it an awful lie. 48 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. No, and I think this is this 49 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: reads Rotten Tomatoes. The critics eighty six percent, the audience 50 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 2: ninety two percent. I will tell you this, this is 51 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 2: a little slow in terms of its pace. And look, 52 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 2: it's only two hours and five minutes. That actually was 53 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: fairly short relative to the other Oscar nominated movies we watched. 54 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 2: But it moves slower because it was it was painful. 55 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 2: It was painful to watch the tragedy unfold and the 56 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: pain of a mother, the pain of a father, what 57 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: it does to a marriage, what it does to siblings. Look, 58 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: this isn't something you want to enter into watching in 59 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 2: already a dark mood, because this is this is a 60 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 2: tough emotional watch. 61 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect from this movie. And 62 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: it's just so weighty. It's just a heavy, agonizing movie, 63 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: and it was it was just it was hard to 64 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: watch for me, and this on the list, probably of 65 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: all the movies, this is the one that I enjoyed 66 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,279 Speaker 1: watching least, one of the ones I enjoyed. 67 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 3: Least as just a movie experience. 68 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: This is not a criticism or critique of any type 69 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: of movie making, but the type of movie this was 70 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: was just have for me. 71 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 2: Well, look, any time you have a movie whose central 72 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: theme is getting over the loss of a child like that, 73 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 2: I can't think of a heavier topic than that. Children 74 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: dying equals really hard movie to watch almost every time. 75 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: Every time. 76 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 2: There's no almost to it unless it's a horror movie, 77 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 2: and there that is the only way it could ever 78 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: be anything other than devastating. 79 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: That's why I didn't like this. I'm like, wait a minute, 80 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: this isn't this is supposed to be upbeat. The kid died, 81 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: we just keep it moving in a horror movie. 82 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 2: Yeah no, that is not the case in this one. 83 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: And I actually saw that some people actually cautioned folks 84 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: who have experienced that that this would be especially hard 85 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: to watch this particular movie because it is it's so raw. 86 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 2: I think raw would be the way I would describe it. 87 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 2: But the way it was shot, the way it was 88 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: acted the way it was written, it was you were 89 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 2: I was almost I had time traveled to the sixteen 90 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: hundreds in England, like you felt like you were there, 91 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: that it was so atmospheric, you just I was pulled 92 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 2: in into the emotions of the movie. I loved it. 93 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 2: I thought it was phenomenal. 94 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: That I guess that's the beauty of the movie making. 95 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: It pulls you into the emotion of the movie. And 96 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: that was the problem with it for me. I got 97 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: pulled into the emotion of the movie it and that's 98 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: all I can say, at least about the experience of 99 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: watching the movie versus I mean, it's just like anything else. 100 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: You go to a horror movie, you get scared, right, 101 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 1: there's an emotion, there's something that pops up. Maybe that's 102 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: fun for you. But this is a movie that did 103 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: deliver on the emotion, and it was I mean almost 104 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: to a point. I said, oh my god, when is 105 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: it going to be the next agonizing scene where somebody 106 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: is just screaming out in agony. It happened over and 107 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: over and over. 108 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 3: This is a true story. 109 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: When we were watching it, you were looking at me 110 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 2: and you would just shake your head, like how much 111 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 2: more can one person take like you just kept looking 112 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 2: at me with these eyes, like, please make this movie stop. 113 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: I'm I'm like so tortured right now, I can't take 114 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: one more scene like this. And so I think you 115 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 2: started laughing because it was so overwhelmingly said, look some people, 116 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 2: and I will admit I have laughed at a funeral before. 117 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 2: I'm not proud of it. It's actually so embarrassing. But 118 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 2: I laughter and tears are so closely related. So in 119 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 2: defensive view, it's just it was so sad that you 120 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: started giggling. 121 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: I wasn't laughing at the emotion of the movie. I 122 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: wasn't laughing at what felt like the ridiculousness of another. 123 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: The scenes were lying back to back to back to 124 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: back of similar these screeches of pain. What it was 125 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: agony these scenes. 126 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 2: You saw her give birth not once twice, but three 127 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: really times in the woods without Obviously this was a 128 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 2: time where there was no medication and there were no doctors. 129 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 2: But she's got this witchy atmosphere, and so she's an 130 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 2: herbalist and so she was doing everything with earth was going, 131 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,239 Speaker 2: but wanted to give birth out into nature by this tree. 132 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 2: But you can't stand birth scenes let's just be honest. 133 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 2: You get so upset when anyone is giving birth in 134 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 2: a movie. You had to endure that three times in 135 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 2: this view, I can remember. 136 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 3: I put it. 137 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: I guess I've blocked it because I don't remember that 138 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: they were birth scenes. Oh my goodness, gracious, it's Look, 139 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: it's just heavy. It's a different movie, and it is 140 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: a beautiful piece of art that might win an Oscar 141 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: for Best Picture. 142 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 3: It's something to be whole. 143 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: It's frankly amazing what somebody I liked, even though he's 144 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: not nominated, Right, Paul. 145 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 3: Maskell, I don't believe I like this guy. 146 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: He has as a just some kind of a charm 147 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: to him. Yes that I really enjoyed him in this movie. 148 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: Jesse Buckley's some phenomenon I don't quite understand yet. As 149 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: far as acting goes, she is she is just different. 150 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: She was unreal. Her performance alone was just phenomenal to watch. 151 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 3: I was in awe of her. 152 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 2: It was so natural. Again, I said raw earlier. Her 153 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 2: performance was just raw and real. And that's so hard 154 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: to do. 155 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: With all that, And you guess whether or not we'd 156 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: say we recommend that you watch this or skip this. 157 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 3: Stay here, that answer is next. 158 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: I continue here on Amy and DJ movie number six 159 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: as we get through them all before you watch the 160 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: Ceremony Tonight Hamnet two hours and five minutes. 161 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 3: Not terrible. 162 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: Their critics love it, the audience loved it, and you 163 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: loved it as well. 164 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 3: That fairness they rose. 165 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 2: I loved it. This was one that was gutting difficult 166 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 2: to watch, and I wouldn't have chosen to watch it 167 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 2: if we had not set on this journey to watch 168 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: all the movies. I think this one. When I saw 169 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 2: the subject matter was about the loss of a child, 170 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 2: I was intrigued to know that it inspired Hamlet, but 171 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 2: I had heard it was so gutting. I don't know 172 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 2: if I would have been brave enough to walk into it, 173 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 2: because I just feel like, sometimes life is so hard 174 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 2: already to invest time in watching other people's really really 175 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 2: hard lives. And I maybe that's a cop out on 176 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 2: my end, but sometimes I'm just after doing the news 177 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 2: and what we do for a living and kind of 178 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: live in this world of breaking news and terror and 179 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: basically the worst of people. Sometimes the last thing I 180 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,719 Speaker 2: want to do is watch a movie that's also painful 181 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 2: and just talking about the lowest of lows, losing a child. 182 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 2: With all that said, I'm so glad I saw it. 183 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 2: It was a masterpiece, So I would say watch it. 184 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: It's a must it's a must see. It's a it's 185 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: a tough record. You would never say, hey, look for 186 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: a good movie tonight. You got any recommendation, you would say, hey, 187 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: Hamnett when you check out Hamnet tonight. 188 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 3: You wouldn't. It's just a different You don't watch it, 189 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 3: And I don't know. 190 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: Is there entertainment value in these right or is it 191 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: a different type of art we're supposed to appreciate versus 192 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: necessarily enjoying as some kind of movie experience. 193 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 2: You know, I think that you, Yes, you appreciate it, 194 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: and it's a window into a world. It's also it 195 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: gives when you see other people's pain and you can 196 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 2: actually feel like you're experiencing it and seeing it. It 197 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 2: also puts your life into perspective. Sometimes I feel like 198 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 2: when I see things like this, it reminds me to 199 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: hug my children, It reminds me to say I love you. 200 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 2: It reminds me to be appreciative of just the fact 201 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 2: that my kids are healthy. So there are some takeaways 202 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: I think from this all. 203 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: So the recommendation as you hear the phone ring in 204 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: the background here if you can hear that. But yes, 205 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: this is one you have to see for no other reason, 206 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: I would say, because Jesse Buckley is a sight to 207 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: behold in this movie. She is extraordinary. So after this, 208 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: up next we go into movie number seven. It'll be 209 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: up on the feed in just a few minutes after 210 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: this one, or right up next in the feed, so 211 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: you'll be able to catch it. The numbe number seven 212 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: is going to be Marty Supreme, and we have a 213 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: confession to make about Marty Supreme, but that one is next. 214 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: We always appreciate you, but we will be talking to 215 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: you very soon.