1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. In this episode, we watched them. So 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: you don't have to welcome to part one of our 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: best picture previews if you will here on Amy and TJ. Rhodes. 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: Every single year we all end up in the same position, now, 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: is it. It can't just be us Where you get 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: around to Oscar stile, you ask that question, have you 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: seen any of the Oscar movies? 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 2: And usually I say I saw one of them. I 9 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: mean that's usually at best case, I've seen two. It's 10 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: I feel like a universal experience to see the list 11 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 2: come down and say what what picture? 12 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: So it's not just us, is it? 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 2: I don't think so. 14 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: So you got ten movies this year, so we watched them, folks, 15 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: So you don't have to the Oscars coming up just 16 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: days away now. But if you were to sit down today, 17 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: right now and start watching all ten Oscar movies, it 18 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: would take you one four hundred and eighty nine minutes 19 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: twenty five hours and nine minutes. 20 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 2: So a full day of not sleeping. 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: This is the longest collective runtime of Oscar movies in history. 22 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: These were long, long movies, not a single one under 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 1: two hours. 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: They were long, and most of them, if not all, 25 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: of them dealt with extremely heavy topics. 26 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: Was there a happy movie in here? 27 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: Wicked? 28 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: Well, even at the end, I was kind of pissed. 29 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 2: Well, it's a cliffhanger, so you can watch part two. 30 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: All of them now. And that's the full disclosure. We 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 1: didn't see a single one of these movies in the theater. 32 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: We did not. We only saw them at home streaming. 33 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: Okay, second full disclosure here. We didn't have a desire 34 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: to see any of the ten nominated movies except for one, 35 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: and that was you. 36 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: I wanted to see Wicked in theaters. And it's funny 37 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 2: because my daughters and my friends all saw it without me, 38 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 2: and I knew that I was not gonna drag you 39 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: into the theater to see that one. I mean maybe 40 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 2: if I had it really begged and said please, pretty please. 41 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 2: I knew my only chance was Sabine and. 42 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 3: She saw it with me. 43 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 2: So I was then left to see it finally with 44 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 2: you under a work assignment. Okay, so I was very happy. 45 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: Sorry, I but I would have gone to that movie 46 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,399 Speaker 1: with you. But I'm making the point there that out 47 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: of all ten of these movies, there's not a single 48 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: one that I would have registered say, hey, go to 49 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: the theater and watch. Yes, we're big horror movie fans. 50 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: It's pretty much exclusively all we watched in the theater. 51 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: But that's weird to feel that none of these ten 52 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: movies appealed to me enough that I wanted to go 53 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: to a theater. 54 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: I actually, because you just said that, I need to 55 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: make an exception. I actually would have seen two in 56 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 2: the theaters. I would have seen Wicked, and I absolutely 57 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: would have seen The Substance and wanted to and was 58 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 2: begging you to see it in the theaters with me. 59 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 2: Do you remember that? And I kept saying I want 60 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: to see the Substance to the point where it became 61 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: a joke, and you were teasing me like, oh, let 62 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 2: me guess you want to see the Substance. 63 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: Are you glad we didn't see it in the theater? I? 64 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you would have been even more angry. 65 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: Okay, we this mony that might have caused a relationship 66 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: altering incident. Was it even the two of us? 67 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 2: But we'll get I could never have anticipated it. But 68 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 2: it turns out, yes, that actually could have been tripped, and. 69 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: So it's not just us. I should tell you now, 70 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: these movies a lot of people didn't see them. And 71 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: I say that because a lot of wide mainstream audiences 72 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: did not. The collective group made two point seven billion 73 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: dollars at the box office. That sounds good, sounds great, 74 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: but that is almost two billion dollars less than last 75 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: year's movies. 76 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 2: Wow, and probably almost all from Wicked. 77 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: A lot Wicked and Done drove a lot of this. Now. 78 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: Of course, last year we did have Oppenheimer and Barbie 79 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: going head to head. That was a big deal Barbarenheimer. 80 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: But still this was a drop. A lot of folks 81 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: just didn't see these movies. So, folks, that's why we 82 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: are here now, so you don't have to sit for 83 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: twenty five hours and twenty nine minutes and watch all 84 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: these movies. So we're gonna split it up. In this 85 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: episode we're gonna do five, and the next episode will 86 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: do five. But the five we're doing today for you, 87 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: A Nora the Brutalist, a Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys, and 88 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: Milia Perez are the five movies we'll get into. And 89 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: we're getting a little help. It's just not me, Me 90 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: and Robes here. We have a little diversity of voices 91 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: here in the room, wrote Emma Sidney and Andy are 92 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: three producers. They went through this exercise with us and 93 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: watched all of these movies. First up is Anara, which 94 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: has some momentum. Right now, Robes take it away. 95 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. It's been nominated for six Oscars Best Picture, Best Director, 96 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 2: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best 97 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 2: Editing and Starring Mikey Madison, Mark Edelstein. Directed by Sean Baker. 98 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 2: The synopsis of the movie is this. It's a young 99 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 2: sex worker. She marries the son of a Russian oligarch 100 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 2: on a whim it happened at that famous chapel in Vegas. Hilarity, 101 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 2: heart and havoc all in sue when her new husband's 102 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 2: parents God I loved the mom in this hear about 103 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: the marriage and rush to the United States on their 104 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 2: private plane from Russia to force them to annul the marriage. 105 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: Box office gross thirty seven point six million dollars. And 106 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 2: you can stream it as we did on video and 107 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: demand to get to pay for it. But if you 108 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 2: wait till March seventeenth, you can watch it on Hulu 109 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: if you subscribe to that and it comes in. Actually 110 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: is not even close to being one of the longest 111 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: two hours and nineteen minutes, and it really did great 112 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 2: with Rotten Tomatoes. I'm a big fan of looking at 113 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 2: the score ninety three percent. It's already won a lot 114 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 2: of awards, the Top Prize at the can Film Festival, 115 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 2: the Palm d'ore, Best Picture at the Critics' Choice Awards, 116 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 2: and Spirit Awards, Top Prize at WGAPGA DGA. So this 117 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 2: is a film. It's one of the front runners for 118 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: Best Picture. 119 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: All right, So I'll start over there with you, Andy 120 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: and go through all three of you. All. First impression 121 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: of Honora was I thought it was good, am I 122 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: first impression bored? Wow, loved it, Rokes, I. 123 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 2: Thought it was incredible and riveting. 124 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: Shockingly good. I wasn't prepared for this one. So who 125 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: over there? Okay, we got Emma. We'll start with you. 126 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: You actually said bored. Now, what wasn't about this movie 127 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: that didn't do it for you? 128 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 4: I wasn't entirely interested in the plot. It kind of 129 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,679 Speaker 4: was slow to me, and so I stopped halfway through. 130 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 2: Wow, you don't like sexy dances nudity, and. 131 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: We should mention that that this was a lot of 132 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: nudity in this movie. I mean, look, it's just you start, 133 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: sit down and watch an Oscar movie. I didn't know 134 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: enough about what it was about, but it's about a 135 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: sex worker, so shocking. There was nudity and sex in it, 136 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: but there is a lot of it. Andy You, your 137 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: response to it was how good luke warm? 138 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 3: I thought it was like I really wanted to love 139 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 3: the movie, like I've like. I went into it saying, like, 140 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,119 Speaker 3: oh my god, it's going to be so good. Everyone 141 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 3: was talking about Mikey Madison and how great her performance was, 142 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 3: and I went in I think maybe expecting too much 143 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 3: out of it. I watched The Florida Project other movie, 144 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 3: and it's kind of the same thing he does, like 145 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 3: very realistic takes on it, so you can't expect I 146 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,239 Speaker 3: don't know, crazyness from these types of movies that he makes. 147 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 3: But yeah, I think I went in expecting too much 148 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 3: and then was bummed out. 149 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: See but we didn't know anything about it, Robes you 150 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: and I. But we were in a theater and we 151 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: saw a preview of Anora, like wow, that looks awesome, 152 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: but we still never went to see it. But it 153 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: looked incredible to me at the time. 154 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 2: Yes, even the trailers that I saw I was intrigued, 155 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: and then we actually got recommendations from two of my 156 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 2: friends saying, including my daughter, saying, you will love this movie. 157 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: And just like Sidney loved it. Now, why why is 158 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: your buddy sitting next to you, Emma there? How is 159 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: it possible that YouTube? Yeah? What would you tell her? 160 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 2: Like? 161 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: How did she not like this movie? That's shocking to me? 162 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 5: I well, very different from Andy. I had no I 163 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 5: never saw the trailer. I didn't know anything going into it. 164 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 5: I was like not on my phone the entire time. 165 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 2: I loved it. 166 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 5: I was so invested in the story. I was so 167 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 5: invested in Anora, Like I just loved her so much 168 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 5: and I wanted her to come out on top. And 169 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 5: I thought Mikey Madison was like beyond incredible, like that performance, 170 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 5: the accent, everything, like she was so real to me 171 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 5: and I just I thought she was beyond. 172 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 3: It's interesting you say the accent, because that was the 173 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 3: one part for me growing up in this area. I 174 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 3: was like, she keeps slipping out of it. Where is 175 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 3: she from? And I'm like, this is California. I know 176 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 3: it's California, Like this is California pretending to be New Yorker. 177 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 3: It's not like organ there my cousin Vinnie girl. 178 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Marissa Tomey when. 179 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 3: She's in that. My cousin Vinnie never slips because she's 180 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 3: from Brooklyn. This one, there were a couple of words 181 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 3: where she like talking. 182 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:39,359 Speaker 2: Oh, that was funny. I mean, you know, I'm a transplant, 183 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 2: but I've been here for more than twenty years, and 184 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 2: I was fooled into thinking that her accent was spot on. 185 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 2: But I will say I I was so invested because 186 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: I thought the storytelling was so great and the acting 187 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 2: was so phenomenal that I actually felt like I wasn't 188 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 2: even watching a movie. It was almost as if I 189 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: was watching a documentary. And I was blown away at 190 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 2: the whull time mobility that Mikey Madison showed just physically 191 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 2: to do what she did. I mean, I imagine. 192 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: There's exotic dancing on the level of you have to 193 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 1: have an athleticism that No, that's impressive, so impressive. 194 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 2: And I also was, as you pointed out, Sydney rooting 195 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 2: for her. And I thought, especially the ending, and we 196 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 2: don't want to give it away, but it had so 197 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 2: much heart, ye so much heart in life. 198 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: This is not just hyperbole because it's recent. There has 199 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: never been that few seconds of a movie that tore 200 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: my heart out but also made me love the movie. 201 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: There there is as that scene in this There is 202 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: a scene in this movie that I was not expecting 203 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: and you get it and you understand and it fucking 204 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: it crushes you in that moment and it's just beautifully done. 205 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: So that's that. Mikey Madison, she is my hands down. 206 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: We'll get into it later, but she I am rooting 207 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: for that young lady. 208 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I am too, and I just thought she she 209 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 2: did such an incredib job and for anyone I think 210 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: there was Obviously there was a lot of messages, but 211 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 2: we're also quick to judge and to put people in 212 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 2: boxes and to assume we know what they're thinking or 213 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 2: what their motivations are. And that movie just blows your 214 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: mind with expanding it. All Right, So what we're gonna 215 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 2: do at the end of each movie that we discussed, 216 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 2: We're going to ask you if you would recommend this 217 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 2: movie to your friends and why So, I guess we'll 218 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 2: start with you, Emma. 219 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 4: Well, for context for why I didn't particularly like it, 220 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 4: it's because I was looking for a romance movie something 221 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 4: that was light, and I saw romance in. 222 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: The description, what this is hilarious? And so I clicked 223 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,719 Speaker 2: it while I was doing laundry, and then I. 224 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 4: Realized I was in an intense sex worker movie and 225 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 4: I was not ready for it. You wanted a light 226 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 4: rom com, so I was totally unprepared and I couldn't 227 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 4: snap out of I was just disappointed that that. 228 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 2: Was the movie i'd bought. Okay, expectation make all the difference, 229 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 2: So that makes a lot of sense. So now that 230 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,719 Speaker 2: you know what the movie is and you watched it, 231 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 2: would you recommend this to your friends and why. 232 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 4: I would recommend it. But I would want to watch 233 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 4: it with them because I want to do over, so 234 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 4: that's why i'd recommend it. 235 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel the same way. Like I wrote this 236 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 3: down while I was watching it. I think it's like 237 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 3: for me, one of the higher watchability ones, Like I 238 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 3: look forward to seeing it on TV and like just 239 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 3: mindlessly watching because there are so many funny parts to 240 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 3: the movie and I did love the ending so much, 241 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 3: so I think it has a really big rewatchability scale. 242 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 3: It's just for me personally, Like I said, maybe going 243 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 3: in with less expectations this next time, I would just 244 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 3: be like, great, loved it ten out of ten. 245 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's really interesting because I think there's 246 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 5: only two movies on this list that I think I 247 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 5: could ever like watch again, which would be Anra and Wicked, 248 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 5: And I would one hundred percent recommend it to my friends. 249 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 5: I already have, like, I just love that movie. 250 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: I would absolutely and I would say stick with this 251 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: movie and stick with honor through the end, and you 252 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: will fall in love with this girl. 253 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I have already recommended it and I 254 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: will as well because I just also if you just 255 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 2: love incredible writing and phenomenal acting, this is a movie for. 256 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: You, all right. Next up on our list, we got 257 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: the Brutalists. Woo oh my goodnesss all right. This one 258 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: is nominated for ten Oscars All The Big Ones Best Picture, 259 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: Best direct Or, Best Actor, starring Adrian Brodie, Felicity Jones, 260 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: Guy Pierce, directed by Brady Corbett. This is about a 261 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: Jewish architect who flees post war Europe to come find 262 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: the American dream not going great, but then a mysterious 263 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: and wealthy client changes everything. Now, this one may thirty 264 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: one point six million dollars at the Box Office. If 265 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: you want to watch it, it is available to rent 266 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: or buy video and demand right now. The runtime three 267 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: hours and thirty five minutes that includes a fifteen minute 268 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: in a mission. It's rotten Tomato score ninety four has 269 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: won some major awards, including Best Director, Actor and Drama 270 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: at the Golden Globes, also Best Director Best Actor at 271 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: the BAFTA's Robes. I'll start with you on this one. 272 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: First impression of the Brutalists brutal Sydney. 273 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 3: Tough watch Emma, too long, complicated. 274 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: Heavy as hell would be my first impression. It's I 275 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: don't you have to start here with Adrian Brody. He 276 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: is just phenomenal start to finish. Every single scene you 277 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: can't take your eyes off of him. But this one look, 278 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: that runtime has to turn some people off. 279 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 2: Oh, we would never have sat down and watched it. 280 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 2: We haven't watched Oppenheimer because it's too long. I mean, 281 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 2: let's just be honest. 282 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: Stop. 283 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 2: I mean, I just need to admit it. This was 284 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: a labor of duty to get through this. And it's 285 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 2: not to take away from the art and the acting 286 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 2: and the cinematography. I mean it was all beautiful and 287 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 2: something you would expect of a Best Picture nominee. However, 288 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: it just went on for so long, and the themes 289 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 2: were very heavy. I think I started to make a 290 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 2: list of these themes, and we're talking about Obviously it's 291 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 2: set just after or actually towards the end of the Holocaust. 292 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: Then you have heroin or opium addiction. I'm not really 293 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: sure what it was that he was injecting in himself. 294 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: There was possible overdose. There was prostitution, there was like 295 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 2: sex addiction. 296 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: There was disease. 297 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 2: There was osteoporosis that was debilitating that I didn't even 298 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 2: know that could happen with that disease. There was rape. 299 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 2: It was heavy, it was. 300 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: But I think a friend of ours recommended it and 301 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: she said, you know, it kind of just flies by. 302 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: I get what she was saying. I didn't find necessarily, 303 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: and for you all down there as well. I didn't 304 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: find even though it was three hoursan and third of 305 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: five as long. I didn't find it to have any 306 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: unnecessary scenes. I didn't find that there was too much 307 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: that so that went too long. Everything still seemed to 308 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: contribute to the story in some way. That's me Andy. 309 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: You had some I. 310 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 3: Think personally it would have been better served as like 311 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 3: an HBO mini series because the first half I was in, 312 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 3: like I was so in and invested, and the second 313 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 3: half crammed so much in that I just kind of 314 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 3: felt lost watching it, Like where is all of this 315 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 3: coming from? Like the wife really added such an element 316 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 3: to it. Yes, coming to the country, and then they 317 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 3: go to Italy and You're just like, so much is 318 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 3: happening where? I feel like if I got a six 319 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 3: hour HBO mini series, I could have really appreciated it 320 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 3: a lot more. 321 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: So. 322 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt like parts were cut towards the end, 323 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 3: and I would have liked to have seen weird, like 324 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 3: a longer cut to get some more backstory. 325 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: Wow, where were you give me the redeeming part of 326 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: Sydney of the movie? What did you like about it? 327 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 5: Everyone's talking about this, but just the cinematography and like 328 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 5: just the visual aspect of it, Like that was something 329 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 5: I have never seen before ever, and it was just 330 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 5: it was like so crazy to see. And I also 331 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 5: saw online that they shot it in thirty four days, 332 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 5: which I'm like, that is like unbelievable to me. And 333 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 5: like the budget was like super low. It was like 334 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 5: under ten million or ten million, which is like so 335 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 5: crazy for me to think about. But yeah, the way 336 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 5: that it was shot, I know it was like some 337 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 5: special camera or something, but like was so beautiful to 338 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 5: me to see. 339 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 2: Uh, Emma, you haven't waited yet. 340 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 4: I'm I'm the most intrigued by the use of AI 341 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 4: during this film because I think with my generation, we've 342 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 4: AI was introduced in school to us because there was 343 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 4: no way around it. And I think with older generations 344 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 4: people are still adjusting to the way that it's impacting 345 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 4: people's jobs in acting because it's being used. But I 346 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 4: think that it's out there and it and it's meant 347 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 4: to be used, and so I'm for the use of 348 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 4: AI enhancing a production and enhancing a film, especially to 349 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 4: make something more realistic. If an actor can't correctly have 350 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 4: the Hungarian. 351 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: Accent, I am I and I see it. I like, 352 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: I don't know how any I don't know how anything 353 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,479 Speaker 1: will be able to replicate what Adrian Brodie makes me 354 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: feel when I watch him on film, Like I can't 355 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: take my eyes off him. This was this movie was 356 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: It's so there. I don't know, is there any joy 357 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: in this movie? Is Are there any there's a taut story. 358 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 2: There's a true love story, but it's it's very flawed 359 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 2: and he was a flawed character, but they loved each 360 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 2: other and that did resonate throughout the film. 361 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: And we don't want to harp on the fact that 362 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 1: it's as long as it is, like that's a negative thing. 363 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: This is it probably should win the Oscar. It is 364 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: a beautiful movie. It is it just it's movie making 365 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: on this type, this scale is stunning to watch it. 366 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: I'm glad we watched it. It took us seventeen hours 367 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: and fifty minutes to watch a three hour and thirty 368 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: five minute move. It did because at one point we 369 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: needed a break, like, oo. 370 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 2: Let's get them cleanse our palate with married at first Sight. 371 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,919 Speaker 1: Yes, And then we got back to and then we 372 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: fell asleep on it. We woke up a mound and 373 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: we had to do a podcast, and then we had 374 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: it going. 375 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 2: It winded a couple of times too, did We ended 376 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: up turning on the closed captioning, which we don't often do. 377 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 2: But sometimes when you're having to focus on a movie 378 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 2: that's that complex, sometimes it's helpful to not have to 379 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 2: rewind an already long movie by just putting up the 380 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 2: closed captioning and knowing what they said. I also want 381 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 2: to give a nod to Felicity Jones. I thought she 382 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: was phenomenal and Guy Pearce was just incredible. I mean 383 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 2: everyone in that cast nailed their performance and you did 384 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 2: feel like again, I was watching a documary and that always, 385 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 2: to me is like the best way to say the 386 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 2: acting was so good. I forgot I was watching something 387 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 2: that someone had to memorize lines. 388 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: For This and Doom two are probably the two movies. 389 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: Just looking at them, I'm in awe of movie making. 390 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: It's pretty incredible. So with that Robes, if you had to, 391 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: would you recommend The Brutalists to a friend? And why? Hmmm? 392 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 2: I would decide between my friends are among my friends 393 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 2: who to recommend it to not to because you do 394 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 2: have to have a love of cinema. I really think 395 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 2: you have to have an appreciation for movie making to 396 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 2: enjoy this movie, because I think if you're looking for 397 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 2: just a quick fix of entertainment, which so many of 398 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 2: us are, this is not the movie for you. But 399 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 2: if you actually enjoy the art of filmmaking and cinema, 400 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 2: then I would recommend it to you because it is 401 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 2: something beautiful to witness, and I am glad I watched it. 402 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,719 Speaker 2: But I know most of my friends I would probably say, 403 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 2: you might want to skip that one. 404 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: Sydney recommend it, and why. 405 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 5: I couldn't recommend it just because I couldn't get through 406 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 5: it myself. So I just don't think that where did 407 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 5: you stop? 408 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 2: It was like an hour in. 409 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 5: I think, oh, so, yeah, we're not once to talk 410 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 5: on this one. 411 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: Okay, then what was your answer to you? What would 412 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: you say? 413 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 4: Well, I believe that any movie that is up for 414 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 4: so many wards, like The Brutalist is, I would absolutely 415 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 4: recommend because I think it's worth a watch, and I'm 416 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 4: kind of on the same tract of how beautiful it 417 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 4: is that I think it would be best picture. 418 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 3: I would recommend it to certain people for sure. I 419 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 3: also thought it was a real movie up until the intermission, 420 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 3: and I looked over at the person I was watching 421 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,239 Speaker 3: it with and I was like, I keep looking at 422 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 3: Doyle's Town, like where is this place? And they were like, Babe, 423 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 3: there is no Doyles Town. 424 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 1: This is not a. 425 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 3: Real sculpture being built. This is not a real story. 426 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 3: And I was like, Okay, I thought it was saying, 427 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 3: are we. 428 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 2: Sure this wasn't a real architect? It seemed it did 429 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 2: seem like a biopic. 430 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 3: I was looking for this mega audit turium chapel whatever 431 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 3: they were building thing in Doylestown and then was shocked 432 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 3: when none of that was real. 433 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 2: How about you? Would you recommend it? 434 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: I would man so many asterisks next to it right 435 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: when you do? So? This was an amazing movie. It 436 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: just is. It's and I'm such a wit. Daniel day 437 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: Lewis those, Denzel Washington, there, Anthony Hopkins. There are some 438 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: guys that just like Mount Rushmore type Oscar guys. I mean, 439 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: Adrian Brody in this performance is everything. He is just everything. 440 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: So yes, that's how I would recommend it. You watch 441 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: this guy do his thing, and it's a very cool movie. 442 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 2: All right, we are going to move on now to 443 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 2: a complete unknown. This is nominated for eight Oscars Best Picture, 444 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 2: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, 445 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 2: Sound Costume Design, Adapted Screenplay, starring Oh the heart Throb 446 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: that He Is, Timothy Chalomey, El Fanning, Edward Norton, and 447 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: Monica Barbarro. Directed by James Mangold, This is a film 448 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 2: that follows the early nineteen sixties rise of a young 449 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 2: Bob Dylan who arrives in New York as a while, 450 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 2: as the title will suggest, a complete unknown. This one 451 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 2: did really well at the box office one hundred and 452 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 2: five million. It arrives on video on demand this week 453 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 2: the week of the Oscars. Yes, and the runtime two 454 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 2: hours and twenty minutes. Rotten Tomatoes score eighty one percent. 455 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 2: A lot of nominations in all of the major categories, 456 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 2: but there have been no major wins. However, Timothy Challomey 457 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 2: won Best Actor at the SAG Awards, and that was 458 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 2: considered an upset because a lot of folks are just 459 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 2: anticipating that Adrian Brody was just going to do a 460 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 2: clean sweep. But challo May was able to get that SAG. 461 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: There's a mystery now about Sunday because the SAG Awards 462 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: is the one though those are the actors themselves are 463 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: voting on this, and they make up a big portion 464 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: of the OSCAR voting. Wow, it's Timothy Chalomte might pull 465 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: off an upset first impression of a complete unknown. We 466 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: have to direct that to one person in particular. I 467 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: think only one of the five of us have seen, right, 468 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: That would be me, Emma. That's our thing, dear Emma, 469 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: And we should say the reason we haven't seen it's 470 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: still in theater. They haven't released it yet video on demand, 471 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: or it's being released. I think as we recorded this, 472 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: yeah it is so we just haven't been able to 473 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: get out to a theater and see it. But we 474 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: still wanted to speak on it. Emma, you can speak 475 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: on it. First impression was what amazing. Wow. 476 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 4: I saw the movie in December in theaters, which I 477 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 4: think adds so much value being away from distractions, dark 478 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 4: right in your face. But I also went into it 479 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 4: not knowing anything about Bob Dylan. I never really followed 480 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:52,399 Speaker 4: his music. I've just listened to it. And the movie 481 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 4: painted him in a good light. And when I talked 482 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 4: to my parents after the movie and my grandparents, they 483 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 4: they thought it painted him in a better light than 484 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 4: he actually was when he was younger. 485 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 2: Wow. 486 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 4: So it made me like him even more I did, 487 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 4: But other people were kind of annoyed by the way 488 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 4: that it made him seem like a better person than 489 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 4: he was. 490 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: See. I don't know enough of the backstore his history, 491 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: Like it's just interesting to hear how people in her 492 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: own family receive this guy differently, and that was your 493 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: first introduction to him. 494 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 2: Yes, oh wow. And it's interesting, Emma, because you are 495 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 2: twenty three. So my daughters are twenty two and eighteen, 496 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 2: and they raced to the movie theaters to see this 497 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: as well in December and came back just with a 498 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 2: glowing review of how much they loved the movie. But 499 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,959 Speaker 2: I wondered how much of it is that I'm not 500 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 2: taking away from the movie or its value or its reception. 501 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 2: But I can just speak for my daughters. They're huge 502 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 2: Timothy Shalomey fans. 503 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 4: Huge, and the fact that he pre recorded his songs 504 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 4: but then also sang all of his songs live in 505 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 4: so which the director chose to keep some of the 506 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 4: live performances in, as well as Monica's who played Joan Baez. 507 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 4: Blown away by his ability to sing like Bob Dylan 508 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 4: and by Monica to sing with fake teeth that resembled 509 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 4: Joan Biez's teeth. 510 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 2: That's incredible. This is one that I actually when it 511 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 2: is available, I do want to watch it. I think 512 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 2: enough has been said I would. I was actually upset 513 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 2: that I didn't get to see this one in time. 514 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 2: For this podcast because I it has also been on 515 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 2: Hey when this is available, I want to see it? 516 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 2: You all? Will you watch it? Andy? Will you watch it? 517 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 5: I'm so excited to watch it. 518 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. I really want to see it. 519 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: It's funny. 520 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 3: I actually had no interest in seeing it, and then 521 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 3: I heard everybody saying it was such a great movie 522 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 3: that I'm like, I'm invested. 523 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: Now, that's what I know. It's a horror movie, is 524 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: the usually the answer here? But why we didn't want 525 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: to go to the theater? 526 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 2: Right? 527 00:25:55,200 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: We're gonna move on to Nickel Boys, Now nominated for 528 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 1: two Oscars Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, starring Ethan Harresey, 529 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: Brandon Williams, and angeenue Ellis Taylor. Directed by Ramel Ross. 530 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the story follows 531 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: two young African American men who are sent to an 532 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: abusive reform school during the Jim Crow era. This made 533 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: at the box office two point six million dollars. You're 534 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: hearing this right that this was a tiny and independent film. Here. 535 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: It is available now video on demand. It's still in 536 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: very few theaters this week, but you can find it 537 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: runtime two hours, twenty minutes ritten Tomato score ninety percent. 538 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: It has gotten a slew of Best Picture nominations, but 539 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: it has not pulled off any upsets and won the 540 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: top prize. Everybody here saw Nicol Boyce correct Sidney, what 541 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 1: was your first impression? 542 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 2: Not for me? YEA, I didn't see it. 543 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: Oh, okay, nice, Yeah, you were busy watching Bob Dylan. 544 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 3: I'd say, incredible, incredible ropes. 545 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:06,119 Speaker 2: I'm going to agree with Sydney. It just wasn't for me. 546 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 2: I loved the story, but the execution of it was 547 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 2: difficult for me to watch visually, and. 548 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 1: My first impression was just uncomfortable watching. So we talked 549 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: about the ropes you hit on here. So we talked 550 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: about this is Jim crow Era, and this is about 551 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: an abusive reform school. But it's shot in a first 552 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 1: person way that is creative and clever and cool, or 553 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: it's distracting and annoying on the other side. 554 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 2: I like the concept of it, the idea that you 555 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 2: were actually watching a movie as if you are living 556 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 2: in that actor's body, so your vision, your lenses are 557 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 2: their eyes. And I like the concept of that. But 558 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 2: what ended up happening is I felt a little like 559 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 2: I needed to take some dramamine. It was. 560 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: It moved aunt. 561 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 2: It's you know, as you do when you're moving around. 562 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 2: The camera isn't still. It isn't even like a smooth 563 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 2: it's jerky, and it goes on and on back and 564 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 2: forth between two young men, and it was confusing sometimes 565 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 2: whose eyes I was looking through? Yeah, yeah, it was 566 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 2: just for me. It was a little jarring from a 567 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 2: just spatial awareness perspective, but also I was confused in 568 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 2: the storytelling sometimes. 569 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: All right, what did y'all any, Sidney, what did y'all 570 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: think about that first person thing they were doing? 571 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 5: I liked that they did something different, but it just 572 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 5: did not work for me, and I couldn't. I just 573 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 5: couldn't get into it, Like I just I couldn't. And 574 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 5: it's so interesting that you said incredible, because I feel 575 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 5: like that's the perspective that I've heard from people who 576 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,239 Speaker 5: have seen it. It's either love love love, or like 577 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 5: me and Amy are saying, like could not get into 578 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 5: it wasn't for them. 579 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think at first I was It's like, oh, 580 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 3: I didn't know it was going to be like this, 581 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 3: and the first person point of view kind of was 582 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 3: like a little jarring of fish, like I'm gonna watch 583 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 3: the whole thing through their eyes. But I think it's 584 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 3: such a vital part of the storytelling and so important 585 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 3: on how the story is told to make you feel 586 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 3: uncomfortable or just like you're in the scene with them. 587 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 3: So I personally came around to it entirely, and I 588 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 3: think it made it brilliant, and I am so shocked 589 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 3: that it's not winning more. 590 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: It's crazy. Brilliant might be a good way. It is brilliant, 591 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: but still uncomfortable. I am one who wants to go 592 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: to a movie and be nothing but entertained. Scare me, 593 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: make me laugh, or fly around, do some action stuff, right, 594 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: That's me. And so this was and you know the 595 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: scene towards a certain part where you have a young 596 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: African American male being chased down in Jim Crow era 597 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: by a white man with a gun, and it's you're 598 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: doing that in first person. Now that hits kind of differently, 599 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: maybe with me having literally been chased by white men 600 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: in my life. I think that's the point of it 601 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: is to make people uncomfortable and for you and you 602 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: and you, you all are sitting to be put in 603 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: a position of being a black man running from a 604 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: white man who shooting at you. And I think that's 605 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: all really beautiful, But it is a it's it's it's 606 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: a tough watch at times, and it's supposed to be. 607 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: But the storytelling this again, this is this is movie 608 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: making at its absolute best. 609 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 2: No, it is, and I get it. Like if the 610 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 2: goal was and it seems as though it was for 611 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 2: you to be in someone else's shoes, to be in 612 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 2: someone else's body and to feel not just discomfort, but 613 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 2: fear and just yeah, the ultimate fear, right, it was compelling. 614 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 2: It was just in an effort to do that. It's 615 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 2: just it's just hard for me to watch. I'm not 616 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 2: even saying like from a from a from a subject matter, 617 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 2: obviously that's a given, but even just from a visual 618 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 2: point of view, I just had a hard time seeing 619 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 2: it through that lens. 620 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: But great storytelling and Andy, Andy, how would you then 621 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: recommend this to a friend? 622 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 3: I would absolutely recommend this to people. I think it's 623 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 3: an important watch. I highly highly recommend it. And it 624 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 3: is actually based off true events. They kind of made 625 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 3: their own with the Nickel Academy, but it's based off 626 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 3: the Dogier Academy, which was in tallahassee there. Yeah, and honestly, 627 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 3: it's I am so shocked this is not winning more. 628 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: And thank you for saying that word. That's I think 629 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: that's a good way to put it. This is an 630 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: important watch. That's a good way to put it. 631 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree. I would recommend it. And just because 632 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 5: visually it was not for me, like I think that 633 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 5: everyone should give it a watch on their own and see, 634 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 5: and like Andy said, it was an important watch. 635 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 2: I would recommend it as well. But I would just 636 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 2: let folks know this is not your typical movie. Just 637 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 2: be prepared to, you know, really witness something in a 638 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 2: very creative way. And I think if I were prepared 639 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 2: more for that, I might have been it might have 640 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 2: I might have had a better reception to it. 641 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 1: And mine would be Yes, certainly, given the heads up 642 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: about how uncomfortable you could get. But this is one 643 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: of the more creative movies and storytelling that I've seen. 644 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: So agree, I would recommend it for that reason. 645 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 2: All right, And we say that now, yoh boy, let's 646 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 2: move on to Amelia Perez right, thirteen Oscars. I mean, 647 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 2: this is the most nominated film of the bunch Best Picture, 648 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 2: Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, 649 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 2: Best Original Song, two for that, Best Original Score, International 650 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 2: Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound, Adapted Screenplay, Film editing 651 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 2: and Cinematography. WHOA starring Zoe Saldana, Carlo Sophia Gascon, Selena Gomez, 652 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 2: and Edgar Ramirez. This was directed by Jacques audiard I. 653 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 2: Hope I said that name correctly. This is you know 654 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 2: when you tell folks, hey, it's not in English, and 655 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: it's a musical, and it's about a drug lord who 656 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 2: is transitioning to a woman so he can live authentically. 657 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 2: He hires a run of a mill lawyer, this is 658 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 2: Zoe zel Dania to help him fake his own death, 659 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 2: remove himself from his family, and start this new life 660 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 2: where he is living authentically. Fifteen point four million box 661 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 2: office gross. You can watch it on Netflix exclusively. The 662 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 2: runtime is two hours and ten minutes. Rotten Tomatoes score 663 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 2: seventy two percent, and so far it's won four Golden Globes, 664 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 2: including Best Actress and Best Foreign Language Film at the BAFTAZ. 665 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 2: So why don't we go around and give us your 666 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 2: first impressions, TJ. 667 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: My first impression was what is happening? 668 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 2: Uh? 669 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: Bizarre? 670 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, no, bizarre in your face, unexpectedly enjoyable. 671 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 2: Ah, you know what, that's really good it. I was 672 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 2: gonna say, WTF, but I liked it. If that makes 673 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,879 Speaker 2: a lot of sense. It's one of those movies. Let's 674 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 2: just say, I've never seen anything like it in my life, 675 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,399 Speaker 2: and I wouldn't have been able to even come up 676 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,279 Speaker 2: with a plot like that. Look it. I think one 677 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 2: of my biggest issues was that it seemed ridiculous. It 678 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 2: seemed unlikely, it seemed almost impossible, And so that was 679 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 2: my biggest hurdle was could this actually? Would this actually? 680 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 2: How could this happen? And then when, for instance, there 681 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 2: were a couple of scenes when they broke into song, 682 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 2: it was just it almost was. 683 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: Comical for me, but there was I think it's okay 684 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 1: to your okay, it's a comedy, but it's not supposed 685 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: to be. It's an action movie, but it's not supposed 686 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: to be. It's a romance, but it's not supposed to be. 687 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,919 Speaker 1: It's nothing and it's not supposed to be. All these 688 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: thing you can't make sense And and you said bizarre, 689 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 1: I knew I had an idea of what I know 690 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 1: what it was about. It was all this stuff. But 691 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 1: still when you start singing in the market at the 692 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 1: I was thrown Yeah. 693 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,759 Speaker 3: And also like I would use singing loosely because when 694 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 3: you were talking like this and call it saying, I 695 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 3: didn't necessarily see it that way. 696 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 2: Again, I thought he Israel was especially that was awesome. 697 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,760 Speaker 2: I actually that's when I started laughing. 698 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: Yeah. 699 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 3: Again, it was bizarre. And I've seen people say, like, 700 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 3: that's why they're giving it awards because it really is 701 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 3: pushing the limits of filmmaking. But then when you watch 702 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 3: something like a Nickel Boys, I maybe appreciate that a 703 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 3: little more. But I can still find value in what 704 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 3: this movie did. I don't want to like completely say 705 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 3: it's like not a watch. 706 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 1: What was unexpected was your word, I think you said 707 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 1: in your face in your faith. Okay, so does that 708 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 1: mean you enjoyed it? 709 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 2: I did enjoy it. 710 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 4: I was confused again because I didn't know that they 711 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:04,080 Speaker 4: would do a crime musical, and so when Zoe Saldana 712 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 4: immediately breaks out and singing, I was like, what did 713 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 4: I just put on? 714 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,320 Speaker 2: Again by accident? 715 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 4: And so and then I had to turn the subtitles 716 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 4: on because it was in Spanish, so then there was 717 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 4: so many elements, like they jammed so much into this movie, 718 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 4: which like, it's awesome, I love it, but it might 719 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 4: have been a little bit too much for me. 720 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm finding that Emma was struggling with 721 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 1: the synopsis of the. 722 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:40,359 Speaker 3: Movie this is about you know a drug lord. 723 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: Now, Sidney, when did you start to or did you 724 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 1: from the beginning. 725 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,839 Speaker 5: Enjoy it or so all my friends were like, you're 726 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 5: not gonna like this movie. We all turned it off 727 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 5: halfway through, like you're not gonna like it. You're not 728 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 5: gonna like it. So I went in with like a 729 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 5: not so good attitude and I loved it. I was like, 730 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 5: so go into it. I was completely I'm like, I 731 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,200 Speaker 5: was completely shocked by how much I liked it. But 732 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,359 Speaker 5: I don't think the musical aspect was necessary at all, 733 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 5: Like it did not bring anything to the movie to me. 734 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 5: I like actually liked the story. I was into the story. 735 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 5: I didn't think, yeah, I don't know. But when I 736 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 5: was like, after I watched all the movies, I like 737 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 5: to go on TikTok and like see what other people 738 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,200 Speaker 5: are saying about it. And one thing that I thought 739 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 5: was interesting about this one was that a lot of 740 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,959 Speaker 5: people were saying that it was a very like stereotypical 741 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 5: way to view Mexico and with like the cartel and 742 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 5: everything like that, and that they should have they like 743 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 5: also shot the entire thing in France, which was like 744 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,040 Speaker 5: another interesting thing that people brought up. 745 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 1: There were non there were no Mexican actors, a French director. 746 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 1: A lot of people took issue with some of that. 747 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 2: That was just an interesting Yeah, there was a lot 748 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,360 Speaker 2: of controversy surrounding this movie from coming in from multiple places, 749 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,839 Speaker 2: directed at multiple people. But so I think, yes, I was. 750 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 2: I had very low expectations. Now I will make this disclay. 751 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 2: I love me a musical movie, and I love Broadway, 752 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 2: and so I don't mind when people break into song 753 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,719 Speaker 2: because I don't know. I've enjoyed lots of movies and 754 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 2: forms of entertainment where people break into song that is 755 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,440 Speaker 2: jarring to some people. I think it's entertaining. And when 756 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 2: this happened and it still took me by surprise a 757 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 2: couple of times. I enjoyed it because it made me 758 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,959 Speaker 2: lean in more. I was watching more intently because I thought, 759 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:26,839 Speaker 2: what are what's happening right now. 760 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,680 Speaker 1: There was a lot of conversational song though right yes, 761 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,479 Speaker 1: and this point it wasn't like there were some things 762 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,320 Speaker 1: that barely qualified as singing. 763 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 2: It was like, I was like, wait, are they singing 764 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,040 Speaker 2: right now? Because they're kind of going into a weird cadence. 765 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 3: She was whispering during that one song. I'm like, this 766 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:41,879 Speaker 3: is a whisper song. 767 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,399 Speaker 2: I heart talking song. Yes, yes, some people could sing 768 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,400 Speaker 2: better than others. And it was a little distracting, and 769 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 2: yet I leaned in more when that happened, and I 770 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,560 Speaker 2: would watch it again too. I would watch it again. 771 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,240 Speaker 2: That's how much I surprisingly liked it. 772 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: It was once again beautiful. I mean, you can't And look, 773 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,280 Speaker 1: this is the reason I am glad I watched this movie. 774 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 1: There is a scene with Zoe Saladonia in that ballroom 775 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 1: that she does a song and dance routine that is 776 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: worth the watch. She fricking kills this scene. I love 777 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,600 Speaker 1: that scene, like all of Oscar season. That might be 778 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,040 Speaker 1: my favorite bit of a movie. 779 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,719 Speaker 2: I believe you said when not even Nazi, but when 780 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 2: at first arted you said, how did these rehearsals go? 781 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 1: Oh? 782 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,680 Speaker 2: You would imagine how much work went into that production. 783 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,879 Speaker 1: That scene was incredible, but the movie on its own, 784 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,680 Speaker 1: it was just bizarre to me for the most part. 785 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,360 Speaker 1: And I think we talked about the story and what 786 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: are we trying to say. I know what it's based 787 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 1: on and all that, but it's it's like a message 788 00:39:54,640 --> 00:40:00,399 Speaker 1: out there that felt at times disjointed forced. We're talking 789 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: about I mean, can you get any more macho than 790 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 1: a Mexican cartel lord who now decides to have to 791 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: transition to a woman that that idea and then become 792 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,440 Speaker 1: a famous woman who now is battling cartels again, It's 793 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: that's storytelling. 794 00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,399 Speaker 2: That was That was where I got a little I mean, 795 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 2: the whole thing is contrived and like I said, unrealistic. 796 00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,200 Speaker 2: But when you are hiding, you fake your own death. 797 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 2: You know that if anyone knows you were your former self, 798 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,919 Speaker 2: that you would likely meet a very very unfortunate fate. 799 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,359 Speaker 2: That you would then put yourself as a woman out 800 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,920 Speaker 2: in front of all of these cameras, impressed to then 801 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 2: battle cartels or at least to help them find those 802 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,840 Speaker 2: who they've killed. That seemed even more unrealistic. 803 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,600 Speaker 1: And he's looking at us like that was Yae's problem 804 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:45,799 Speaker 1: with the. 805 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,160 Speaker 3: Movie In her family, and she calls herself the aunt 806 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 3: like no, no, let's go back. 807 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,360 Speaker 2: And Selena Gomez's character her wife didn't put two and 808 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 2: two together. 809 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:57,520 Speaker 1: Oh look, okay. 810 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,800 Speaker 2: I was still entertained, the entire entertaining. 811 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 1: So, Emma, I'll start with you. Would you recommend this 812 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:05,520 Speaker 1: to her friend? And why? 813 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:09,760 Speaker 2: I not particularly? 814 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,640 Speaker 4: No, I think there's other movies I would see again 815 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 4: and recommend. 816 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 2: Yes. 817 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 3: I will say, like you, Amy, I couldn't keep my 818 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,120 Speaker 3: eyes off of it, and so in a weird way, yes, 819 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:27,640 Speaker 3: you would recommend it. 820 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:28,520 Speaker 1: I would recommend it. 821 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 2: I would too. I would recommend it. I think it's 822 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 2: worth a watch. 823 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: I would recommend it this way. You gotta see this 824 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,920 Speaker 1: shit like that almost how you would recommend like you 825 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,359 Speaker 1: ain't gonna believe this, And I would tell you if 826 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,200 Speaker 1: you don't want to watch it, at least fast forward. 827 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,520 Speaker 1: There's always sounds on youa scene in that ballroom where 828 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,960 Speaker 1: she just absolutely crushes it. This is good. We're only 829 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,520 Speaker 1: halfway through, all right. The next time around, we're going 830 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 1: to have Conclave doom too. I'm still here the substance 831 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: and wicked. That's a good. 832 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,960 Speaker 2: I can't wait. And this is gonna be fun So again, 833 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,279 Speaker 2: we watched these movies so you don't have to. And 834 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,240 Speaker 2: I will say this is gonna be a really fun 835 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,919 Speaker 2: Oscars show for us all here in this room, because 836 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,480 Speaker 2: when you do watch these movies, you are invested. And 837 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 2: we're also in the next episode going to give you 838 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 2: our predictions for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor? Are 839 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:25,600 Speaker 2: we going to do the supporting roles too? 840 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,800 Speaker 1: The four acting categories and Best Picture? 841 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 2: All right, we'll let you know where we stand and 842 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,799 Speaker 2: you all feel free to check any of these out 843 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 2: and see what you think your movie review would be 844 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:36,720 Speaker 2: and how it compares to ours. 845 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,879 Speaker 1: So for Andy, Emma, Sydney and Rhodes, I'm te Jenny 846 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:41,439 Speaker 1: Will for yeas