Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. Oh no, it's Oscar's weekend. But you
Speaker 1: haven't watched all the movies where you're in the right place.
Speaker 1: Let's get you caught up now, movie number one, Let's
Speaker 1: start with Sinners.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: This film has sixteen nominations. It is a juggernaut going
Speaker 3: into Oscar Sunday. Yes, it is nominated for Best Picture,
Speaker 3: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress,
Speaker 3: Best Casting, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Achievement in Cinematography,
Speaker 3: Best Original Score, Wow, I'm gonna keep going, Best Original Song,
Speaker 3: Best Sound, Best Achievement in Visual Effects, Best Screenplay, Best
Speaker 3: Achievement in Production Design, Best Achievement in Costume Design, and
Speaker 3: Best Achievement in Film Editing.
Speaker 1: And that is a record. History is on the line
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Centers has more nominations than any movie in history.
Speaker 1: And yes, folks, black folks are behind this movie with
Speaker 1: Ryan Coogler, the cast and everything. Rome is not just
Speaker 1: a matter of the number of nominations. It is a
Speaker 1: big deal that this is a history making film in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. And so I think this film,
Speaker 1: which did do well at the box office and the
Speaker 1: people liked this is gonna I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: help the ratings on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, this is I think it's fair to say
Speaker 3: the hands on favorite fan favorite for winning the box
Speaker 3: office gross will tell you what you need to know.
Speaker 3: This film made two one hundred and eighty million dollars.
Speaker 3: And what's so significant beyond yes, it being a black
Speaker 3: led film, This is an original screenplay. You don't get
Speaker 3: that very often, especially when it comes to horror movies.
Speaker 3: When something works, they just keep doing it and they
Speaker 3: keep repeating it, and they adapt it from a book
Speaker 3: or they adapted from something else that they can say
Speaker 3: was successful.
Speaker 2: This is an original.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't get that all. That's why every time
Speaker 1: you hear about a new movie coming out. We just
Speaker 1: saw the Heat Too is coming out. We just went
Speaker 1: the Anaconda coming out. They're bringing all they keep doing it,
Speaker 1: and what's the latest Star Wars thing that's.
Speaker 2: I don't even know the count on that album. When
Speaker 2: there's prequels and sequels and all sorts of stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: Even the Conjuring they said the last one was the
Speaker 1: last one and now they're development for a prequel.
Speaker 2: We knew it wasn't.
Speaker 1: There's not new stuff. That alone almost robes make this
Speaker 1: one a front runner to a certain degree. The cast here,
Speaker 1: you know them well. Michael B. Jordan nominated, of course
Speaker 1: for Best Actor, Womney Masaka she's nominated as well. Delroy
Speaker 1: Lindo is nominated. Then you have Hailey Steinfeld in there.
Speaker 1: And Miles Kenton, he is the young man who plays
Speaker 1: a central role in the film. But a hell of
Speaker 1: a cast. And of course the director, Ryan Coogler behind
Speaker 1: Black Panther, behind Fruitvale Station. We have watched his career
Speaker 1: and him get bigger and bigger and bigger, and you
Speaker 1: can't get more bigger or any bigger than he is
Speaker 1: at this point. And like you said, this is one
Speaker 1: that people actually did like and go to the theater
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 3: Yes, and this is we have said it before, but
Speaker 3: we'll put it on a record in this episode. This
Speaker 3: is the only movie OSCAR nominated Best Picture movie that
Speaker 3: we actually were excited about before we even.
Speaker 2: Were thinking about Oscars, and that we actually went.
Speaker 3: To the movie theater to go see and look, this
Speaker 3: was one to see in the theaters.
Speaker 2: It's we actually want to rewatch it at home. It's
Speaker 2: that good.
Speaker 3: There are very few movies that we actually want to rewatch.
Speaker 3: This is among them. But what, there are so many
Speaker 3: cool things about this movie because you don't have to
Speaker 3: be a horror fan to like this movie, because yes,
Speaker 3: it is technically a horror movie, but this is about
Speaker 3: human relationships. This is about just the music, the cinematography,
Speaker 3: the epic arc of this.
Speaker 2: Story, race history, it has.
Speaker 3: There's so many elements to it that I feel like,
Speaker 3: no matter what genre you like most, it's got some
Speaker 3: of that in there, including like musical theater esque.
Speaker 2: Stylization, Like I actually felt.
Speaker 3: At some point I was watching a music video on
Speaker 3: top of a horror movie, on top of a history
Speaker 3: lesson on top of just watching phenomenal actors do their
Speaker 3: things with a great script.
Speaker 1: And this one did make a lot of money the
Speaker 1: box office two hundred and eighty million worldwide. That is
Speaker 1: a big, big deal. That's a big deal for a
Speaker 1: horror movie. It's certainly a big deal for an original movie.
Speaker 1: And it's a big deal for an original horror movie.
Speaker 1: We just don't get those. If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: you've certainly heard plenty about it. It's been everywhere. But
Speaker 1: the synopsis they explain it like this, trying to leave
Speaker 1: their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown
Speaker 1: to start again, only to discover that an even greater
Speaker 1: evil is waiting to welcome them back. This is a
Speaker 1: horror movie. It is graphic at times, it is rated ARE,
Speaker 1: and it has a run time that Robes is not
Speaker 1: exactly a short movie. It fly. I feel like it's dragging,
Speaker 1: but I guess this is just standard stuff maybe for
Speaker 1: movies now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, most horror movies, we'll be honest, are under
Speaker 3: an hour and forty minutes. I mean that is kind
Speaker 3: of the sweet spot for horror movies. Usually an hour thirty.
Speaker 2: Sometimes even less.
Speaker 3: This one for two hours and seventeen minutes did give
Speaker 3: us a little pause going to the theaters.
Speaker 2: But it is so well done.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't even remember looking at my watch ef
Speaker 3: or wondering when it was going to be over, which
Speaker 3: I have done on many of these movies.
Speaker 2: This was not among them.
Speaker 3: I didn't even realize it was as long as it is.
Speaker 3: And look, the critics scores came in along with the
Speaker 3: audience scores.
Speaker 2: Just making this movie. You understand why it's nominated and
Speaker 2: why it did so well. At the box office.
Speaker 3: The critics gave it ninety seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes,
Speaker 3: and the audience was just behind it ninety six percent,
Speaker 3: and we would be right there with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't see this scores certainly that high in
Speaker 1: both the audience and the It's rare, but these were
Speaker 1: right on, like almost exactly, the audience and the viewers.
Speaker 1: The audience and the critics had the exact same view
Speaker 1: of this movie.
Speaker 2: There was a consensus.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: And by the way, this is about vampires. I don't
Speaker 3: think we've made that clear. This is a vampire movie.
Speaker 3: I think I would think you'd kind of have to
Speaker 3: be living under a rock if you didn't know this.
Speaker 3: But while it's very gory for sure, and there is
Speaker 3: a lot of violence in this there are some jump scares,
Speaker 3: but I don't know, like for traditional horror fans how scary.
Speaker 2: I wasn't scared necessarily, but I was riveted. I was invested.
Speaker 3: I was here for it, but it wasn't like I
Speaker 3: was frightened necessarily.
Speaker 1: There were graphic scenes. Yeah, I get what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but I to your point about folks that would have
Speaker 1: to be under a rock. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: felt that so much of the messaging and promotion with
Speaker 1: this movie build it as a vampire flick. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what they builded it, and maybe that was
Speaker 1: a part of the success. I didn't think I was
Speaker 1: going into a traditional family this is just a vampire movie.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was going into a Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan and a Ryan Cooglan movie, like, Ah, what you
Speaker 1: guys got for me? I'm here for it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Michael B. Jordan it was.
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought it was so cool to see
Speaker 3: him playing twin brothers like he did, such an incredible
Speaker 3: job playing two characters. I can't even imagine what that's
Speaker 3: like as an actor, to have two different roles in
Speaker 3: the same movie. What that is like, and just even
Speaker 3: how they shoot it and how it feels so real, like.
Speaker 2: You're seeing two Michael B. Jordan's play off of each other.
Speaker 2: That is not easy stuff.
Speaker 1: And that might be the reason. I don't know that
Speaker 1: would tip the balance. I guess the guy who was
Speaker 1: being nominated for an Oscar you all play one role,
Speaker 1: he played two. I mean I would almost give him
Speaker 1: a nod to that to a certain degree. But he
Speaker 1: is as his stunning self as always, But this is
Speaker 1: all a story. The music stands out. It is nominated
Speaker 1: for some of the music, and we have been listening,
Speaker 1: you know, I have that music on in the house.
Speaker 1: Some of that is just great stuff. So we'd there's
Speaker 1: so much in the young characters in it. And there
Speaker 1: was just a grit or a griminess almost to this movie.
Speaker 1: That is it. It's almost weird to have it as
Speaker 1: an Oscar nominated Best Picture because quite frankly, horror movies
Speaker 1: just don't get this kind of love.
Speaker 3: Silence of the Lambs, that's probably the last one I
Speaker 3: remember getting that much love and sweeping the Oscars with
Speaker 3: actor wins and Best Picture wins.
Speaker 2: But a lot of folks are.
Speaker 3: Saying this could be the one film in that same
Speaker 3: genre that does the same thing this year, like this
Speaker 3: is the first chance a horror movie has had in
Speaker 3: quite some time to sweep the Oscars.
Speaker 1: All right, So should you watch The Sucker or should
Speaker 1: you not? You probably have already come to the conclusion
Speaker 1: about what we think about it, But stay here we
Speaker 1: answer the question watch it or skip it? And why?
Speaker 1: All right? Continuing with Sinners here on this Oscars weekend,
Speaker 1: Watch it skip it. Obviously it sounds anybody who's listened
Speaker 1: to the first ten minutes, they'd say, yeah, well, obviously
Speaker 1: these two are gonna recommend that you watch this movie.
Speaker 1: But there's a little more to it than that ropes.
Speaker 1: Not everybody's into this type of movie, not everybody's into
Speaker 1: the gore, But I would recommend watching. This is a story.
Speaker 1: This is somebody sat down and wrote out and just
Speaker 1: made up this story. It didn't come from somewhere else,
Speaker 1: it didn't come from other material. I think that of
Speaker 1: itself is impressive and worth watching. I think Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan is always worth watching when he is on screen,
Speaker 1: and this is a dynamic performance by him. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: being rewarded because of the Oscar nomination. He also what
Speaker 1: was the one he picked up. It was kind of
Speaker 1: the upset that it was a big nut the Actors Awards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: actually beat out all these same guys at the Actors
Speaker 1: Awards for Best Actor.
Speaker 3: They were shocked he beat out Timothy Shalome, But there
Speaker 3: were so many other incredible actors in that category. It's
Speaker 3: not shocking to me at all that he won. But
Speaker 3: for some reason, people thought Timothy Shalome had it in
Speaker 3: the bag. People have talked about Leonardo DiCaprio. Of course,
Speaker 3: there was the Spanish actor in a Secret Agent who
Speaker 3: won at Going Yes, So look, this is anyone's guests
Speaker 3: as to who actually takes home that Best Actor award,
Speaker 3: but certainly Michael B.
Speaker 2: Jordan is on it.
Speaker 3: And in terms of should you watch it or skip it,
Speaker 3: I'm going to add another element to that. I not
Speaker 3: only say you should watch it, I say you should
Speaker 3: rewatch it.
Speaker 2: This is a film that is so.
Speaker 3: Just incredible in its storytelling and in its acting, and
Speaker 3: in the music, the visuals, the like what you hear,
Speaker 3: what you see, what you feel, It's all just so compelling.
Speaker 3: And I feel like the only reason why people might
Speaker 3: not want to watch this is because they don't like
Speaker 3: scary movies, because they don't like Gore. I would just say,
Speaker 3: if you think it's gonna get gory when you close
Speaker 3: your eyes, but keep listening, keep watching, because there's so
Speaker 3: much more to this story than just look, we love
Speaker 3: just a scary film. That is what it is. It's
Speaker 3: just tequila and tacos. You know exactly where you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be scared, you're gonna do. This is so
Speaker 3: much more depth to this. There's so much more about this.
Speaker 3: This is a love story, this is history, this.
Speaker 1: Is this family between the music, this is family.
Speaker 2: There's so many other through lines in the story. That
Speaker 2: this is not just a horror movie lover's movie.
Speaker 3: This is for so many more people, And I just
Speaker 3: think it would be a shame if you missed it.
Speaker 1: You know it is also there is a backdrop of
Speaker 1: racial striketh absolutely in this movie that doesn't necessarily come
Speaker 1: to the forefront, but the fact that it's there, It's
Speaker 1: not the central theme or the central conflict, but the
Speaker 1: fact that it's just there plays a part in this movie.
Speaker 1: Is this is this is Hella done? That is now
Speaker 1: elevating things for horror movies, and Rose we might have
Speaker 1: greater expectations of the horror movies we see. Between this
Speaker 1: and Weapons last year, we were like, whoa we have
Speaker 1: bringing it.
Speaker 3: We have seen this genre elevated by just brilliant minds,
Speaker 3: folks who obviously love horror the way we do, but
Speaker 3: taking it to a whole other level. And we are
Speaker 3: slow clapping all the way because it is so fun
Speaker 3: to see other people recognize how amazing these types of
Speaker 3: movies can be. You give it a little, you give
Speaker 3: it a lot of talent, a lot of forethought. This
Speaker 3: isn't just some formulaic thing that you know, we know
Speaker 3: the formula of horror movies. This takes it to a
Speaker 3: whole other level and I hope it just raises the
Speaker 3: game for everybody.
Speaker 2: But this is my pick for Best Picture.
Speaker 3: I am going to be rooting for Sinners the whole
Speaker 3: way through, but I hope I am cheering on Sinners
Speaker 3: for Best.
Speaker 1: Picture, and I am nervous. I'm rooting for it. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: This is the favorite movie we saw on the list
Speaker 1: for us. But I am nervous. So many nominations, there's
Speaker 1: an expectation that you gotta deliver, you gotta win a
Speaker 1: certain number. And I think back to the Color Purple.
Speaker 1: They had eleven nominations, which was huge at the time,
Speaker 1: and they walked away with not a single win that night.
Speaker 1: So there have been some of those over time. I'm
Speaker 1: just not only hold my breath on that one, but
Speaker 1: this could absolutely be a night that the Oscars has
Speaker 1: never ever seen before. So, folks, that is how we
Speaker 1: feel about Sinners, movie number one on our list, that
Speaker 1: we're getting caught up on movie number two on our list.
Speaker 1: Next episode will be one battle after another, and we
Speaker 1: got a lot to say about the movie that is
Speaker 1: considered right Robes the strongest competition with Sinners for Best Oscar.
Speaker 1: Is that fair to say? Yes, I think that Best
Speaker 1: Oscar Best Picture.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, that's got the next biggest buzz associated with
Speaker 3: it for Best Picture. And we'll have to see what
Speaker 3: the Academy decides, but our vote.
Speaker 2: Is for Sinners.
Speaker 1: All right, look for that one. It's going to be
Speaker 1: next in the feed. Folks. We will talk to you soon.