WEBVTT - Best Picture Breakdown (Part 1) 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.840 Hey, that folks. In this episode, we watched them. So 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.119 you don't have to welcome to part one of our 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.840 best picture previews if you will here on Amy and TJ. Rhodes. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.840 Every single year we all end up in the same position, now, 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.080 is it. It can't just be us Where you get 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.800 around to Oscar stile, you ask that question, have you 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:23.160 seen any of the Oscar movies? 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.799 And usually I say I saw one of them. I 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.680 mean that's usually at best case, I've seen two. It's 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.120 I feel like a universal experience to see the list 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.000 come down and say what what picture? 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:38.879 So it's not just us, is it? 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:39.879 I don't think so. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.720 So you got ten movies this year, so we watched them, folks, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.960 So you don't have to the Oscars coming up just 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.360 days away now. But if you were to sit down today, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.680 right now and start watching all ten Oscar movies, it 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.400 would take you one four hundred and eighty nine minutes 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.040 twenty five hours and nine minutes. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.160 So a full day of not sleeping. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:09.920 This is the longest collective runtime of Oscar movies in history. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.080 These were long, long movies, not a single one under 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:14.839 two hours. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.440 They were long, and most of them, if not all, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.240 of them dealt with extremely heavy topics. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:22.760 Was there a happy movie in here? 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:23.440 Wicked? 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.959 Well, even at the end, I was kind of pissed. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.440 Well, it's a cliffhanger, so you can watch part two. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.399 All of them now. And that's the full disclosure. We 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.559 didn't see a single one of these movies in the theater. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.959 We did not. We only saw them at home streaming. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.480 Okay, second full disclosure here. We didn't have a desire 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.440 to see any of the ten nominated movies except for one, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:47.080 and that was you. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.600 I wanted to see Wicked in theaters. And it's funny 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.160 because my daughters and my friends all saw it without me, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.040 and I knew that I was not gonna drag you 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.520 into the theater to see that one. I mean maybe 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.720 if I had it really begged and said please, pretty please. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.080 I knew my only chance was Sabine and. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.360 She saw it with me. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.800 So I was then left to see it finally with 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.959 you under a work assignment. Okay, so I was very happy. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.520 Sorry, I but I would have gone to that movie 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.399 with you. But I'm making the point there that out 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.760 of all ten of these movies, there's not a single 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.240 one that I would have registered say, hey, go to 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.480 the theater and watch. Yes, we're big horror movie fans. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.880 It's pretty much exclusively all we watched in the theater. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.639 But that's weird to feel that none of these ten 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.640 movies appealed to me enough that I wanted to go 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:33.160 to a theater. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.400 I actually, because you just said that, I need to 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.040 make an exception. I actually would have seen two in 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.120 the theaters. I would have seen Wicked, and I absolutely 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.480 would have seen The Substance and wanted to and was 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.440 begging you to see it in the theaters with me. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.320 Do you remember that? And I kept saying I want 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:48.760 to see the Substance to the point where it became 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.880 a joke, and you were teasing me like, oh, let 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.079 me guess you want to see the Substance. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.000 Are you glad we didn't see it in the theater? I? 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.040 Well, yeah, you would have been even more angry. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.160 Okay, we this mony that might have caused a relationship 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.560 altering incident. Was it even the two of us? 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.519 But we'll get I could never have anticipated it. But 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.079 it turns out, yes, that actually could have been tripped, and. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.840 So it's not just us. I should tell you now, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.200 these movies a lot of people didn't see them. And 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.040 I say that because a lot of wide mainstream audiences 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.400 did not. The collective group made two point seven billion 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.120 dollars at the box office. That sounds good, sounds great, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.480 but that is almost two billion dollars less than last 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:25.120 year's movies. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.360 Wow, and probably almost all from Wicked. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.520 A lot Wicked and Done drove a lot of this. Now. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.800 Of course, last year we did have Oppenheimer and Barbie 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.440 going head to head. That was a big deal Barbarenheimer. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.840 But still this was a drop. A lot of folks 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.080 just didn't see these movies. So, folks, that's why we 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.080 are here now, so you don't have to sit for 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.640 twenty five hours and twenty nine minutes and watch all 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.400 these movies. So we're gonna split it up. In this 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.600 episode we're gonna do five, and the next episode will 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.400 do five. But the five we're doing today for you, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:59.280 A Nora the Brutalist, a Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys, and 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.800 Milia Perez are the five movies we'll get into. And 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.520 we're getting a little help. It's just not me, Me 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.160 and Robes here. We have a little diversity of voices 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.080 here in the room, wrote Emma Sidney and Andy are 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.720 three producers. They went through this exercise with us and 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.839 watched all of these movies. First up is Anara, which 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.720 has some momentum. Right now, Robes take it away. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.600 Yeah. It's been nominated for six Oscars Best Picture, Best Director, 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:29.279 Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:34.600 Editing and Starring Mikey Madison, Mark Edelstein. Directed by Sean Baker. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.159 The synopsis of the movie is this. It's a young 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.520 sex worker. She marries the son of a Russian oligarch 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.000 on a whim it happened at that famous chapel in Vegas. Hilarity, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.520 heart and havoc all in sue when her new husband's 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.479 parents God I loved the mom in this hear about 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.080 the marriage and rush to the United States on their 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.760 private plane from Russia to force them to annul the marriage. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.680 Box office gross thirty seven point six million dollars. And 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.360 you can stream it as we did on video and 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.080 demand to get to pay for it. But if you 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.200 wait till March seventeenth, you can watch it on Hulu 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.960 if you subscribe to that and it comes in. Actually 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.560 is not even close to being one of the longest 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.760 two hours and nineteen minutes, and it really did great 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.800 with Rotten Tomatoes. I'm a big fan of looking at 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.360 the score ninety three percent. It's already won a lot 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.760 of awards, the Top Prize at the can Film Festival, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.159 the Palm d'ore, Best Picture at the Critics' Choice Awards, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.359 and Spirit Awards, Top Prize at WGAPGA DGA. So this 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.359 is a film. It's one of the front runners for 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:39.000 Best Picture. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.479 All right, So I'll start over there with you, Andy 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.800 and go through all three of you. All. First impression 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.000 of Honora was I thought it was good, am I 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.800 first impression bored? Wow, loved it, Rokes, I. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.760 Thought it was incredible and riveting. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.159 Shockingly good. I wasn't prepared for this one. So who 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.840 over there? Okay, we got Emma. We'll start with you. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.760 You actually said bored. Now, what wasn't about this movie 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:09.520 that didn't do it for you? 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:15.320 I wasn't entirely interested in the plot. It kind of 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.679 was slow to me, and so I stopped halfway through. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.640 Wow, you don't like sexy dances nudity, and. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.520 We should mention that that this was a lot of 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.680 nudity in this movie. I mean, look, it's just you start, 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.599 sit down and watch an Oscar movie. I didn't know 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.240 enough about what it was about, but it's about a 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.960 sex worker, so shocking. There was nudity and sex in it, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.520 but there is a lot of it. Andy You, your 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.960 response to it was how good luke warm? 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.320 I thought it was like I really wanted to love 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.160 the movie, like I've like. I went into it saying, like, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.119 oh my god, it's going to be so good. Everyone 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.960 was talking about Mikey Madison and how great her performance was, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.480 and I went in I think maybe expecting too much 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.839 out of it. I watched The Florida Project other movie, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.279 and it's kind of the same thing he does, like 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.400 very realistic takes on it, so you can't expect I 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:12.239 don't know, crazyness from these types of movies that he makes. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.360 But yeah, I think I went in expecting too much 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.640 and then was bummed out. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.800 See but we didn't know anything about it, Robes you 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.200 and I. But we were in a theater and we 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.720 saw a preview of Anora, like wow, that looks awesome, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.560 but we still never went to see it. But it 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.360 looked incredible to me at the time. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.000 Yes, even the trailers that I saw I was intrigued, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.600 and then we actually got recommendations from two of my 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.200 friends saying, including my daughter, saying, you will love this movie. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.480 And just like Sidney loved it. Now, why why is 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.400 your buddy sitting next to you, Emma there? How is 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.400 it possible that YouTube? Yeah? What would you tell her? 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:43.600 Like? 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.880 How did she not like this movie? That's shocking to me? 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.240 I well, very different from Andy. I had no I 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.640 never saw the trailer. I didn't know anything going into it. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.680 I was like not on my phone the entire time. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:54.360 I loved it. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.880 I was so invested in the story. I was so 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.920 invested in Anora, Like I just loved her so much 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.400 and I wanted her to come out on top. And 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.840 I thought Mikey Madison was like beyond incredible, like that performance, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.720 the accent, everything, like she was so real to me 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.880 and I just I thought she was beyond. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.400 It's interesting you say the accent, because that was the 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.040 one part for me growing up in this area. I 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.720 was like, she keeps slipping out of it. Where is 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.120 she from? And I'm like, this is California. I know 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.600 it's California, Like this is California pretending to be New Yorker. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.200 It's not like organ there my cousin Vinnie girl. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.360 Oh yeah, Marissa Tomey when. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.040 She's in that. My cousin Vinnie never slips because she's 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.800 from Brooklyn. This one, there were a couple of words 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.280 where she like talking. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.359 Oh, that was funny. I mean, you know, I'm a transplant, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.280 but I've been here for more than twenty years, and 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.080 I was fooled into thinking that her accent was spot on. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:49.120 But I will say I I was so invested because 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.280 I thought the storytelling was so great and the acting 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.960 was so phenomenal that I actually felt like I wasn't 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.559 even watching a movie. It was almost as if I 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.600 was watching a documentary. And I was blown away at 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.360 the whull time mobility that Mikey Madison showed just physically 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:08.080 to do what she did. I mean, I imagine. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.400 There's exotic dancing on the level of you have to 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.199 have an athleticism that No, that's impressive, so impressive. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.840 And I also was, as you pointed out, Sydney rooting 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.640 for her. And I thought, especially the ending, and we 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.080 don't want to give it away, but it had so 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.199 much heart, ye so much heart in life. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.480 This is not just hyperbole because it's recent. There has 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:33.080 never been that few seconds of a movie that tore 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.680 my heart out but also made me love the movie. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.800 There there is as that scene in this There is 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.000 a scene in this movie that I was not expecting 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.720 and you get it and you understand and it fucking 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:50.040 it crushes you in that moment and it's just beautifully done. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.880 So that's that. Mikey Madison, she is my hands down. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.040 We'll get into it later, but she I am rooting 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:56.760 for that young lady. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.000 Yeah, I am too, and I just thought she she 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.600 did such an incredib job and for anyone I think 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.480 there was Obviously there was a lot of messages, but 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.600 we're also quick to judge and to put people in 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.839 boxes and to assume we know what they're thinking or 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.760 what their motivations are. And that movie just blows your 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:16.760 mind with expanding it. All Right, So what we're gonna 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.400 do at the end of each movie that we discussed, 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.680 We're going to ask you if you would recommend this 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.800 movie to your friends and why So, I guess we'll 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:25.920 start with you, Emma. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:31.040 Well, for context for why I didn't particularly like it, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.040 it's because I was looking for a romance movie something 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.600 that was light, and I saw romance in. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.520 The description, what this is hilarious? And so I clicked 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.719 it while I was doing laundry, and then I. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:49.840 Realized I was in an intense sex worker movie and 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.480 I was not ready for it. You wanted a light 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.400 rom com, so I was totally unprepared and I couldn't 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.880 snap out of I was just disappointed that that. 0:10:59.920 --> 0:11:06.240 Was the movie i'd bought. Okay, expectation make all the difference, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.520 So that makes a lot of sense. So now that 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.719 you know what the movie is and you watched it, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.600 would you recommend this to your friends and why. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.400 I would recommend it. But I would want to watch 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.080 it with them because I want to do over, so 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.360 that's why i'd recommend it. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.360 Yeah, I feel the same way. Like I wrote this 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.000 down while I was watching it. I think it's like 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.800 for me, one of the higher watchability ones, Like I 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.360 look forward to seeing it on TV and like just 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.080 mindlessly watching because there are so many funny parts to 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.000 the movie and I did love the ending so much, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.760 so I think it has a really big rewatchability scale. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.160 It's just for me personally, Like I said, maybe going 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.200 in with less expectations this next time, I would just 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.559 be like, great, loved it ten out of ten. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:49.880 Yeah, I think that's really interesting because I think there's 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.439 only two movies on this list that I think I 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.160 could ever like watch again, which would be Anra and Wicked, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.520 And I would one hundred percent recommend it to my friends. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.319 I already have, like, I just love that movie. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.880 I would absolutely and I would say stick with this 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.679 movie and stick with honor through the end, and you 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.520 will fall in love with this girl. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.080 Yeah, I agree. I have already recommended it and I 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.240 will as well because I just also if you just 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.840 love incredible writing and phenomenal acting, this is a movie for. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.440 You, all right. Next up on our list, we got 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:26.520 the Brutalists. Woo oh my goodnesss all right. This one 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.880 is nominated for ten Oscars All The Big Ones Best Picture, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:34.080 Best direct Or, Best Actor, starring Adrian Brodie, Felicity Jones, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.520 Guy Pierce, directed by Brady Corbett. This is about a 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.640 Jewish architect who flees post war Europe to come find 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.120 the American dream not going great, but then a mysterious 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.360 and wealthy client changes everything. Now, this one may thirty 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.200 one point six million dollars at the Box Office. If 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.160 you want to watch it, it is available to rent 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.520 or buy video and demand right now. The runtime three 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.760 hours and thirty five minutes that includes a fifteen minute 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.320 in a mission. It's rotten Tomato score ninety four has 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.280 won some major awards, including Best Director, Actor and Drama 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.600 at the Golden Globes, also Best Director Best Actor at 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.960 the BAFTA's Robes. I'll start with you on this one. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.840 First impression of the Brutalists brutal Sydney. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:22.240 Tough watch Emma, too long, complicated. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.560 Heavy as hell would be my first impression. It's I 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.760 don't you have to start here with Adrian Brody. He 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.840 is just phenomenal start to finish. Every single scene you 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.400 can't take your eyes off of him. But this one look, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.040 that runtime has to turn some people off. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.320 Oh, we would never have sat down and watched it. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.240 We haven't watched Oppenheimer because it's too long. I mean, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:56.960 let's just be honest. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:57.320 Stop. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.880 I mean, I just need to admit it. This was 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.800 a labor of duty to get through this. And it's 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.800 not to take away from the art and the acting 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.480 and the cinematography. I mean it was all beautiful and 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.080 something you would expect of a Best Picture nominee. However, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.560 it just went on for so long, and the themes 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.840 were very heavy. I think I started to make a 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.480 list of these themes, and we're talking about Obviously it's 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.120 set just after or actually towards the end of the Holocaust. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:38.320 Then you have heroin or opium addiction. I'm not really 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.120 sure what it was that he was injecting in himself. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.240 There was possible overdose. There was prostitution, there was like 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:45.960 sex addiction. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.120 There was disease. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.600 There was osteoporosis that was debilitating that I didn't even 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.200 know that could happen with that disease. There was rape. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.040 It was heavy, it was. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.360 But I think a friend of ours recommended it and 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.320 she said, you know, it kind of just flies by. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.880 I get what she was saying. I didn't find necessarily, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.320 and for you all down there as well. I didn't 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.120 find even though it was three hoursan and third of 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.160 five as long. I didn't find it to have any 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.240 unnecessary scenes. I didn't find that there was too much 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.960 that so that went too long. Everything still seemed to 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.840 contribute to the story in some way. That's me Andy. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.120 You had some I. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.280 Think personally it would have been better served as like 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.000 an HBO mini series because the first half I was in, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.200 like I was so in and invested, and the second 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.520 half crammed so much in that I just kind of 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.360 felt lost watching it, Like where is all of this 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.640 coming from? Like the wife really added such an element 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.880 to it. Yes, coming to the country, and then they 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.000 go to Italy and You're just like, so much is 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.120 happening where? I feel like if I got a six 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.480 hour HBO mini series, I could have really appreciated it 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:54.200 a lot more. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:55.120 So. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.480 Yeah, it felt like parts were cut towards the end, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.520 and I would have liked to have seen weird, like 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.840 a longer cut to get some more backstory. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.600 Wow, where were you give me the redeeming part of 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.520 Sydney of the movie? What did you like about it? 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.600 Everyone's talking about this, but just the cinematography and like 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.520 just the visual aspect of it, Like that was something 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.320 I have never seen before ever, and it was just 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.680 it was like so crazy to see. And I also 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.320 saw online that they shot it in thirty four days, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.480 which I'm like, that is like unbelievable to me. And 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.640 like the budget was like super low. It was like 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.880 under ten million or ten million, which is like so 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.480 crazy for me to think about. But yeah, the way 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:35.800 that it was shot, I know it was like some 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.760 special camera or something, but like was so beautiful to 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:40.400 me to see. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.080 Uh, Emma, you haven't waited yet. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.800 I'm I'm the most intrigued by the use of AI 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:50.480 during this film because I think with my generation, we've 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.200 AI was introduced in school to us because there was 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.600 no way around it. And I think with older generations 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.760 people are still adjusting to the way that it's impacting 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.280 people's jobs in acting because it's being used. But I 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:08.720 think that it's out there and it and it's meant 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.520 to be used, and so I'm for the use of 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:17.000 AI enhancing a production and enhancing a film, especially to 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:22.320 make something more realistic. If an actor can't correctly have 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:23.840 the Hungarian. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.320 Accent, I am I and I see it. I like, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.280 I don't know how any I don't know how anything 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.479 will be able to replicate what Adrian Brodie makes me 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.760 feel when I watch him on film, Like I can't 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.119 take my eyes off him. This was this movie was 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.440 It's so there. I don't know, is there any joy 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.399 in this movie? Is Are there any there's a taut story. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.680 There's a true love story, but it's it's very flawed 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.040 and he was a flawed character, but they loved each 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.080 other and that did resonate throughout the film. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.439 And we don't want to harp on the fact that 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.440 it's as long as it is, like that's a negative thing. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.960 This is it probably should win the Oscar. It is 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.000 a beautiful movie. It is it just it's movie making 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.439 on this type, this scale is stunning to watch it. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.639 I'm glad we watched it. It took us seventeen hours 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.800 and fifty minutes to watch a three hour and thirty 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.520 five minute move. It did because at one point we 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:18.720 needed a break, like, oo. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.240 Let's get them cleanse our palate with married at first Sight. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.919 Yes, And then we got back to and then we 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.480 fell asleep on it. We woke up a mound and 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.440 we had to do a podcast, and then we had 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:28.800 it going. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.680 It winded a couple of times too, did We ended 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.080 up turning on the closed captioning, which we don't often do. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.240 But sometimes when you're having to focus on a movie 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.600 that's that complex, sometimes it's helpful to not have to 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.320 rewind an already long movie by just putting up the 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.880 closed captioning and knowing what they said. I also want 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.159 to give a nod to Felicity Jones. I thought she 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.760 was phenomenal and Guy Pearce was just incredible. I mean 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.920 everyone in that cast nailed their performance and you did 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.760 feel like again, I was watching a documary and that always, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.240 to me is like the best way to say the 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.680 acting was so good. I forgot I was watching something 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.320 that someone had to memorize lines. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.240 For This and Doom two are probably the two movies. 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.760 Just looking at them, I'm in awe of movie making. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.359 It's pretty incredible. So with that Robes, if you had to, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:23.720 would you recommend The Brutalists to a friend? And why? Hmmm? 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.720 I would decide between my friends are among my friends 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.960 who to recommend it to not to because you do 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.760 have to have a love of cinema. I really think 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.600 you have to have an appreciation for movie making to 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.680 enjoy this movie, because I think if you're looking for 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.159 just a quick fix of entertainment, which so many of 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.119 us are, this is not the movie for you. But 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:49.320 if you actually enjoy the art of filmmaking and cinema, 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.639 then I would recommend it to you because it is 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.840