2nd Annual Emilie and Chuck Pre-Oscars Spectacular

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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hey, and welcome to the movie Crush Charles W. Chuck
Bryant here Pont City Market Home Studio and this everyone
is the second Daniel lost Court Spectacular. That wonderful, luscious
voice that you just heard sitting close for me, it
is Emily. Hello friends, she's back. Everybody glad to be back.

(00:48):
And I know that makes you happy because you've all
made it clear on Facebook how much you want Emily back.
That makes her feel good. We have a busy life,
but I would like to do this more so if
you'll notice everyone, Oh, that's right, we just popped a
bottle of wine. Luke. We're actually here in the studio though,

(01:09):
because when we did it at home a the sound
isn't great and be there just all the distractions of home.
And I knew that if I can dogs and babies
and dogs and burglars, burglars, lots of those. We get
a pause. Everyone, there's a cat burglar. So here's the deal, everybody,

(01:31):
we um have we didn't get. We got a late
start on the movies this year, and we have. Yes,
we really worked hard to do right by everyone for
the last week and a half by really watching a
lot of movies we have watched a lot of movies.
It's been a lot of work. Yeah, fun of work,
it was. It was a great effort. The goal was

(01:54):
to really at least get all the best pictures under
our belt, and we did save one. So just go ahead. No,
we have not seen Vice, which apparently is his GBS
pick fors. Like when you have nine best pictures, I
think there's eight this year. But yeah, one, two, three, four,
I think you can have up to ten. Why because

(02:16):
they changed, I know, but they throw a couple in
there that are like what like, Yeah, that was a
fun movie, but certainly not best picture. I just don't
know why they made more the oscars longer. I agree.
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(03:01):
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one in particular. Please sponsor us. All right, So how
do you want to do this? Baby? Should we just
go through? Should we? I don't remember how we did
last year. Did we start with bets picture or did
we go backwards? Well? I think we only prep for

(03:24):
a best picture, right, and then didn't we? I think
we started with the best picture and went through all
of those and then watched and then that covers a
lot of the other and then looked through the other categories. Yeah, well,
either way, we can do whatever the hell we want,
but we do have to figure out some sort of forma. No,
I think we do that on the fly. By the way, everyone,
we're in the stuff you should know studio and Emily's
and Josh's seat hello, which I don't know. There's a

(03:47):
lot of weird things going on right now. My body,
it's strange. I thought about flip flopping it, but that
would have literally never said in that seat. That would
be so strange. It's just odd. And when we do
live shows like how bad You've been to? Enough of
them if I was on the other side. Beware, wouldn't
it be so strange if I was on the left

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or the left from your point of view? All right, everyone,
so we'll start with the best picture. And I'm just
gonna gonna go. I guess they have him in alphabetical order.
So we'll start with Black Panther, all right. That we
just saw, loved two or three nights ago, right, loved it.
It was wonderful. I had already seen it. It was
like it was so empowering for women and African Americans

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and it just was like it was just a wonderful Yeah,
great movie. I mean, first of all, it's just a
good movie. I love all the Marvel things. You were
into some of the Marvel things, but you just don't
have time for all the Marvel things. Well you know,
but you like what you've seen. Yeah, you've seen some stuff.
I love superhero movies. Yeah, but you've seen a handful

(04:53):
of them over the years. Uh. But you did not
see Black Panther in the theater. But we got to
it the other night and it's just really good, good acting,
good story. It's a great story. Wakonda is beautiful. Yeah,
that was one of the best parts was the costumes. Yeah,
production design, Yeah, c G I look good. It was

(05:13):
a really great story too, you know, as far as
like it was interesting because obviously it was about you know,
this place, what Conda, but they were kind of nationalists,
like they didn't want people in or out. They were
there were a lot of like overtones for today's you know,
and there was a lot of guilt. It's like, you know,
look at all these people that we all come from

(05:33):
the same descendants, and we've let them, you know, we've
done wrong by them. And it was very a lot
of really complex issues. Well and then Michael B. Jordan's
his whole thing was like he's the bad guy, but
he's trying to liberate like the oppressed black man in
the real world exactly, but through violent means, which is
not cool. But it was a very complex character. I

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think he was mad he got left behind and he knew,
you know, like yeah, he was a descendant of this
reyalty and then he not only didn't have access to them,
but was you know kind of left like in a
rough place in Oakland and you know, had a rough
yeah alone without his dad, like growing up who his
uncle had killed so he had a lot of rage

(06:15):
that his skin suit whatever that was was so crazy cool.
What do you mean his real skin? No, well, the
like the prosthetics we were talking about. I think they
did prosthetics the bumps Yeah, yeah, which we're supposed to
be scars or whatever. Well they were scars from every
person he killed, right, But that was really cool. Yeah,
it was like he's so handsome. Yeah, he's handsome and
he's cut a f Yeah. They all were though. They

(06:37):
were all just like in fierce shape. They're all wonderful warriors. Yeah.
The I should have pulled up the movies. Maybe I'll
try and pulled up now to get the cast and
all their names. I can't remember her name from The
Walking Dead, but you know, the lead badass lady. Oh,
the general she was. She might have been my favorite.
She was so cool and badass. Yeah, what is her name?
I've been trying to get her. I can never remember

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because we have, you know, semi access to the some
of the Walking Dead people just because they shoot here,
and I had Ross Markwandan and he uh denied Guerira. Yeah,
she's such a badass. Yeah, she's man. She used to
be reckoned with and uh lupida young love no ango,

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I think spelling in front of me. But it's a boy.
She was a badass too. She was so cool and
Letitia right as the little sister loved her. And Daniel
Kuliah from get out like it was really just packed.
Chadwick Boseman, of course, he was amazing. Yeah, and weird
Andy Cirkus showing up. He was the white guy with

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one arm. Oh wait, the one at the beginning or
the one the only well, yeah, there was the bad
guy with that. What was I doing? Yeah, I don't know,
I don't know what. The just came out of my
mouth some combo accent. That's that's the only ones I do.

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So no judgment here. Forest Whittaker always great to see him,
right that. It was very sad. Are we allowed to
do spoilers? Yeah, I mean I guess if we spoil it, well,
we talked about some people and some things dying it
or not exactly. Forest Whittaker dies and we hated it.
It was terrible. Yeah, that was bad. They even had

(08:26):
his younger guy with the eye, which I didn't notice
later on. I was like, yeah, yeah, because you share
the but I wonder if they made his eye like that,
or if they literally just found a guy because he
didn't really look much like Forest Whittaker with like, you
have the same what's the eye condition called? Yeah, you
have tosis. You're hired, and that's what said, you share
the same affliction. I guess it's not really an affliction.

(08:48):
It's a condition. I don't know. But all I know
is my left eye slowly closing. I know. But you
kind of look like you're flirting. So it's fine. You
in Paris, Hilton, she has it too. And it's like, yeah,
if Harris and I ever bumped into each other, fireworks,
I know, right, you just never mean Forest Whittaker for
that matter. Alright, so I give it. I don't. I

(09:10):
don't think I would vote for it for Best Picture,
but I really enjoyed it. And to the poop o
ers like bloke Panther was good, but you know no,
it's like, shut up, I like it, Yeah the same.
It's not my pig for best Picture. But it was
just a fantastic movie. Yeah, agreed, well done. This is
the weird year? Is it the first Marvel? Is it
like the first superto movie to ever be? Well? I

(09:31):
mean good Lord didn't like out sell box office from
like every single it was huge. I don't know like
where it ranks on the Marvel list, but I felt
like it was like, I don't think it was the
best ever. Maybe I don't know, or maybe I had
the biggest weekend or something. I'd like to go to
a conda. I think everyone wants amazing. Alright, moving on, Yeah,

(09:54):
Black Klansman. You know I love this movie. This all right,
we'll we'll get to what we we're going to vote
on at the end. Let's just say that part I
loved this movie. I love this movie. So I will
say I didn't really know anything about it going in.
I'd heard some like buzz about Denzel Washington Sun and

(10:16):
there was some like typo on the you know, front
of a like a magazine cover or something about his
Oscar nomination. But I literally I knew. I hadn't even
forgotten that it was Spike Lee. I was kind of
put off by the title. I was like, this sounds
like it's going to be hardcore and upsetting, and you know,
anytime you put clan in a title, and like I
got to really like figure out if I'm up for this.

(10:37):
But since it was the best Picture domination and then
you said Spike Lee and I was like, oh, and
it was way lighter than you thought. It was lighter
than I thought it was gonna. I mean, it's it's
it's I don't want to call it a comedy, but well,
there's any party. There were some there were some lighter parts,
for sure, I think. Yeah, And it was I mean,
you know, I was talking about it with a few

(10:58):
people at work and they were like, one of them
is black, and she was concerned about the language being upsetting,
and I was like, well, it is upsetting. I'm like,
but when you're watching it, they're they're the bad guys.
These people that are using this terrible language, they're the
bad guys, like you know, you're you know, like the
cameras on the right side of things. It's you know,
like there's only one of them that's menacing, and that's

(11:18):
the Oh Jesus, what is this guy's name? Jasper pa Coon?
Was he the main three uh three letters in his
name that have oom louts. I've never seen that before.
He did a good redneck whatever. Yeah, Like he was

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like me, you've run into that guy, and like, I
don't want anything to do with that guy. Yeah, he
he was truly like he was. He was the brain
that I'm like, well, the brains I used that term loosely,
but he was. He was. He was the one with
the most motivation to do evil. Yeah, I agreed, um,
but just had the awful wife too. Oh god, it's

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so it's hard enough watching white men talk like that,
and then when when women do it, it does something
to me. It's like not that I expected from men,
and it's even worse from women. And as a woman,
it's probably like particularly offensive. A shout out to Ashley
Atkinson who played that role, because she was fucking great.

(12:22):
She was and like to take on a role and
like to be a really awful we are literally the
biggest piece of ship human being in the world. Yeah,
Adam Driver was great. John David Washington was awesome. I
loved him, and you know what, not even like I didn't.
I didn't get a hint of Denzel. I guess would
look just like inner moments where I was like, that

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looks like a mini He did not remind me of
him the way he talked her mannerisms like I don't know,
maybe favorite mom maybe, but I thought he was awesome.
That like that character I loved, and he was just
was kind of a renegade like he was, but he
was also adorable. He was really Laura Harrier who plays
as Uh Patrese who they were just adorable. Yeah, like

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you want them to be together. Yeah, and they're kind
of like they're on the same side of things but
coming from very different perspectives and places, different side of
things in a way. Well, no, yeah, because he was
police and they were, you know, the police were the
bad guys. Yeah, for this group of you know, especially
at the time. That was interesting. There was a lot
of like well I don't know when Black Panther took place,

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but a lot of this a lot of the big
movies this year, we're kind of like period racial issues,
which is interesting. I guess Black Panther was modern day.
I guess. I don't think it was like a future
Ye I'm trying. All I can think of it as Wakonda,
I can't remember any of the real Yeah, it was right, yeah,
modern day Oakland. Um. Laura Harrier was great as Patrese.

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Uh's brother Michael was in it. Of course, he was
the the other white cup that was kind of friends
with Adam Driver, who you were like, who's the guy
that looks of course it was. I don't think it
was funny because I don't think that registered at the time.
It looks like Steve. He looks like a snaze. He
totally doesn't even have a similar voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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and then mannerisms at all. So for Grace was great
as Oh my god, he was great. It was funny
because he was doing his toe for Grace thing, but
it was and it looks a lot like him. That
guy's garbage, yeah, human garbage, human garbage. But man, they
were I mean it was funny and light in a
lot of places. But then that stuff like with Harry

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Belafonte when he's sitting there with his long that was
telling that story that just it was like cross cutting
right back and forth between like the violent act that's
about to happen. So it's totally building tension and you're
listening to like these things that these people had to
endure because it wasn't like he could help. And it's
Harry Belafonte, so it's like you feel like it's just

(14:57):
him speaking. Yeah, you know, it's may been actually something
based on his his real, but it had a really
satisfying ending. Yeah, it was fun man, I mean just
I love a gut punch of an ending, not always
be up for it. It had a satisfying ending. And
then the Charlotte's fell. No, that's what I'm talking Well,

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I was talking about the end, like they prevail, you know,
the bad guys die. Yeah, and he liked which didn't
really happen really basically David Duke on the phone, which
was funny. But then the gun, then the Charlotte Fell stuff,
and it was funny because well, not funny. None of
that was funny. It was horrifying. And I'm just sitting
there watching this and I had, well, I don't you
know me, I don't watch news on radio. I don't

(15:41):
need the vision. But I didn't realize that Charlotte's felle.
First of all, that the march was so big, that
like the line of people of white supremacists who were marching.
I was so sickened. I was like, there were that
many people that were here, so your sort of experience
a lot of that stuff for the first time. For
the time. I'd read everything. I knew what was going on,

(16:02):
but I don't watch the videos. I just really hit
home when you see those dudes in those torches and
you're just like what it made me so sick, Like
I was just so sick. And then the car stuff
that I had not seen, Yeah, yeah you don't It's good.
I'm glad you don't watch that. Yeah. I just was like,
oh my god. And you were like, oh my god,
you didn't see it. I was like, no, I don't

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watch that stuff about it is horrible enough. Now I
have this visual, I know I'm with you. So that
was really powerful and a really powerful way to end
that movie because Spike like so Spike. He ended with
his patented shot of the Dolly ride with them going
down the hall and then to go into that uh
that last sequence and Trump and his language of like well,

(16:45):
yeah one one group was violent, but the other group
was violent too, and it's like that like that matters. Basically,
it matters, it does. That was I mean, what a
movie for the time and for to be Spike lead.
And I'll just coalesced. It was so his career is on.
I can see I know, well I raved on the
show about that. She's got to have it about the

(17:05):
TV show So good, so great, Uh. The other thing
I want to mention from this movie that we both
love but was when during the scene where they went
to the rally and Quama Tore was speaking and he
did the montage of all the faces while he was speaking,
like overlapping one another. Yeah. So I read an interview

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where Spike was talking about that, and that was his
editor that I had this idea and showed him and
Spike was like, oh fuck, yeah, that's awesome, good stuff. Yeah.
That movie again, Like I went into it having no
idea and I was just completely blown away. I could
see this wedding it's my back. All right. Well that's
fine spoiler alert, No one cares. Actually, there's like a

(17:49):
five percent of the listeners right now, like damn it. Sorry,
I'm not very good at keeping secrets. No, it's fine.
That's what's That's what I love about you. I just
wouldn't have been anything until you don't. All right, Are
we done with that one? Um for now? Yeah? Anything
else you want to say about it, I don't think so.
That's I wish i'd taken notes, because I'm sure I

(18:09):
had some, um, some more stop thoughts. It's hard when
you pile all the movies on top of each other.
It doesn't leave a lot of time for meandering through
retrospection introspection, both both retrospect introspection. All right, you know
what's up next? What's next? Mama just killed him? If

(18:33):
you don't pick this, just surely out of the amount
of tention, next pulled my trigger. Now he's dead. So
there's a running joke on many Crush that now he's
he's done it. I don't even know now, Um that

(18:54):
Nolan I sing at some point during Everything Rush, whether
it's whatever it had, it organically just seems to happen
all the time. So we got her singing in good
all right, I will just be doing that all day. Yeah.
Um Bohemian Rhapsody. I've seen it three times in the theater,

(19:16):
uh twice, and then at home once with me, and
then I've also watched the live aid section two or
three more times. I walked into that the other day
and it's funny. So I got so used to Rommy
Malik being pretty mercury that I walked and I was like, wait,
is this a live And I was like wait, wait,
I got really convenuous. Yeah, because he's he's been around

(19:37):
a lot on TV. Um, Well, I loved this movie, you,
I mean to say it. Uh. And here's what I've
told people that uh, just friends of mine or whatever,
and we're talking about it friends of ours. I'd say
there may have been a better film that Sasha Baron
Cohen was going to make, but this was a more
enjoyable movie. And it was a love letter a queen.

(20:01):
And they may have sanitized it. And there were plenty
of tropes, uh, and sort of kind of corny moments
here and there, but I just loved it. And some
fairly bad wigs, but yes, yeah, the band, It's like
those guys didn't look like they had that hair. It's fine,
like a forgotten a guy looks his look pretty good. Yeah.
And John Deacon just had great hair throughout his career

(20:22):
in the eighties when he had that big mushroom. And
of course that was a kid from Jurassic Park. Yeah,
which she pointed out. What actually gotten? Um, it was great.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really loved it. I was
very touched. I was really really touched by his relationship
with what's her name, the woman he married originally, Yeah,
love of my life. Yeah, sorry, I'm not going to

(20:46):
do that the whole time. What was her name in
real life? Elizabeth? Uh, just pulled that out of Lucy
Boynton was the actor that's so annoying. She is literally
the only one that doesn't have her character name really
on the computer in front of my face. Audrey or Elizabeth.
I'm the second name so badly. But I loved her

(21:06):
because she was from what was that Mary Austin Mary
Mary Mary Um, the lovely little Irish movie that we
watched together on the plane about. She was the girl
from St yes Well Recommendation Everyone, very small Indian film
from the UK. So great period piece in Ireland, like

(21:28):
seventies maybe eighties. Maybe it's just coming of age, has
to do with music of the time. It is adorable,
it's adorable. It's really a very sweet movie. I didn't
realize that was her black hair though, right, yes, okay, yeah,
I knew, you know, I've got that, like I know
her face then, right. And then Allen leech of course
from Dounton Navvy was the bad guy and put me

(21:51):
in Rhapsody. He was the dude you know in the
big scene in the rain, the Leechy managers assistant that
was you know, he was the not the vell but
the coachman or whatever in doubt Navy. Yeah, and then
what was the nickname for the like that not the
manager guy, Miami B. Miami Beach. Yeah, he was from

(22:11):
Jim Beach. Jim Beach, he was from. He played the
really awful cousin in UM Pride and Prejudice. Wow. Yeah,
that has lost on me. A few people might care
about that. A lot of people care about that, for sure,
cousin who tried to marry Lizzie and she was like,
um no. He was great as Miami B. He was
great And it was funny to see him in a
different role because he was He was so cringe worthy

(22:33):
Pride and Projects. He played that role so perfectly, so
I was like, Okay, he's a normal person. He's not
that right, sure man, he thinks he's much taller. UM.
The had some of the better musical like concert recreations
I've seen. I thought it worked. It totally works. I mean,
why do you thing forget about him? That was well.

(22:55):
The fact that they did it shot for shot, step
for step. Yeah, that was really footage with areographers in
front of it, kind of doing like the motion. Yeah,
that was in the extras. Everyone there's a a choreographer,
this lady that's sort of like in front of the
stage and down a bit and just literally at all
the same exact things because he's up there like like

(23:15):
it thrusting and she's kind of like doing little punches. Yeah.
I guess it's a reminder. Yeah, it's awesome. And then
seeing all the green screen stuff too of how they
oh yeah, how they shot that. Yeah, that was so cool.
This was I believed it. I was it was funny.
I mean I worked in the film industry for how
many years? I was like, how many How do they
get all those extras? Dumbass? You didn't you thought all
of those were real people. I've gone back to my

(23:39):
movies or magic. They just make things happen. I've like stopped, well,
it did look good, like picking apart, you know, like
that's how they did that, and that's how they did that.
I'm just back to love it movies. I'm with you. Um.
It was a very sweet movie. It was his relationship
with Mary, his relationship with the guys like they really were,
you know, brothers and family, and like Jesus at the end,

(24:02):
like when he gets a diagnosis and all that stuff. Yeah,
and the soundtrack like, of course it was all Queen,
but like there's the song selection was just perfect yeah
for you, especially as because there were some deep cuts
that were just like perfect for the scenes. Well, and
I learned for the first time ever that Queen sang

(24:23):
Radio Gaga. Who did that? I don't know, I just
like I guess, like I genuinely that they were saying that.
I'm like, wait, that sounds like Radio Gaga. I was like,
did they cover that? I genuinely had no idea. I
mean that was kind of a later eighties song of theirs.
You know, I got a lot of radio play. I

(24:44):
genuinely have no recollection. It doesn't come up on greatest
hit stuff. Like you were kids when that, Yeah, I
mean it was you know, we were like high school.
It was eighties, wasn't it. I don't know, but I
feel like, yeah, we were like yeah. But it was
funny because I was like, I know that's song. Wait,
no it is. I thought it was like a song
that sounded like it. Yeah, just so good. And you know,

(25:04):
romy Malock, we haven't even officially commented. Oh, he just
nailed it. Just didn't get any better than that. There's
really it's like that is truly where like best acting
comes in when people when these actors embody these characters
like they study their body language and really like to
be able to mimic somebody like that and still act

(25:25):
a performance. Yeah, it's a true get because that's not
you know, that's really hard to do. It's like one
thing to feel a scene in act a scene, but
another to embody a person who was larger than life,
especially like, yeah, like perhaps the greatest frontman of all time.
Dare I say yes, of course you may in your

(25:46):
humble opinion. Yeah, that's I'm not going to vote for that. Well,
here I go, ruining my own You're not voting for
Bohemian Rhapsody. I'm only shocked. But okay that I would
vote for that for Chuck's favorite movie. Okay, fair enough,
But that's not the same thing necessarily. So are we
supposed to be like, well, we can get into this
because I picked Black Clansman because it was my favorite movie.

(26:07):
But am I supposed to now getting to the head
of the impossible to figure out Oscar people? Oh no,
we're not dinnerness about how they well, we might say
like I think this person may win, but whatever, that's
that's a fool's Errand yeah, alright, it's send up pissing
me off. As anyone who listened were, we're pretty salty

(26:27):
last year. I don't We're not gonna do that this year. Like, no,
I think that was too much. It was too much.
It just went south. We're tired. It was like, yeah,
there's the Oscars are like a marathon. Yeah, but everyone,
you should be delighted to know. First announcement here. I've

(26:51):
been doing the Filmmaker series with Paul and Casey Emily
and I are going to do uh and Alexander Payne
filmography series. Get excited about that. To start to get
a little greedy about ones he's dishing out to other people.
I know he wants to a couple of it's already
been given to someone else without my without even asking me.
You know what, I'll give you, all right, horse trading,

(27:13):
Paul keeps Sofia Coppola, all right, it means a lot
to Paul. Hey, I'm not trying to I'm not. This
has nothing to do with Paul. It's all about me.
You can get Alexander Payne and Nicole Hall off center. Alright, deal, Yeah,
I'm in. That'd be great. One lady, one dude to
our faves. Let's do it. Trying to think of another

(27:35):
lady director to throw in there while we're bargaining, give
me a minute now, Well, sadly, you really have to
think because there are a few and far between because
of sexism. Well from that era, I'm talking about weather cool.
We did get one. Do you have your phone on?
I didn't mean to getting weather alerts that we're going
to drown when we go outside. Yeah, everyone is pouring

(27:55):
down rain right now. Oh, Joe Alwyn, he is John
Paul Gassier to the Max. I just pulled up the Favorite. Okay,
oh my no, he totally. He looks exactly like him.
That's what I kept saying. I think gossela, I think
you're making it fancier than it is. I thought his
name was John Paul Dossiers. It's due Gossel gossel No,

(28:21):
not Gosseling. He looks like Zack. Yeah, he totally looks yeah, yeah, exactly. No,
he was spot on, all right, So it's his offspring.
We're on the Favorite, which I watched it in my
favorite way to watch a movie, which was in four
different the fourth being five minutes before we left to
come here. Seconds. Yeah, realizing so, but we have to

(28:45):
tell the stories that we watched half of it and
I fell asleep, and then half of it and Chuck
a third of it, and I fell asleep a third
of it, and Chuck fell asleep a third of it,
well almost a third of it this morning and right
before our daughter woke up. So she came in and
we have can know TV on weekday mornings thing, because
if not, we would just have to argue with her
incessantly all the Yeah. Well but trust me, their parents

(29:09):
are like, but it's just it's not worth like sending for.
So we turned it off right and she got up,
which we realized was three frames before the end of
the movie. I went to work and I was talking
to one of my girls about it, and she she goes,
did you see the end? I said, but we turned
off like five minutes before the end. And I told
her what part we turned off, Yeah, the faces morphing
into bunny. She goes, that's the end. I was like,

(29:30):
oh my god, that's hysterical. So we watched it and
we literally had just like not seen that the bunny
fade out, So it's just really weird. Boy, had loved
this movie. It was a great movie. I wish we'd
seen it more all together. I wish I would have
seen in the theater, to be honest, the director Orgas
Lanthamo Snolan, I've talked a lot about. We think he's

(29:51):
everyone thinks he's like one of the new geniuses. Well,
his style, I don't even know what to call it,
because it's not a mockumentary, but it's not not like
they're every like just the tongue was in the like
cheek throughout the entire thing, very clever and like modern
in some ways, but also like bits of ridiculous cheek.

(30:12):
Yeah yeah, yeah, man, what a movie. And all within
like this amazing set and beautiful in the Queen's bedroom
was just like dripping with richness, Like that's one of
the better palace and watch, and we watch a lot

(30:34):
of things with palaces, so I'm going to have to say, yeah, yeah,
we have a uh. I loved it. And and boy,
the acting they all three gotten on. Rachel Weiss, Emma Stone,
and Olivia Coleman was Olivia Coleman. Oh my god, she
was like that was her performance because how like she

(30:57):
nailed that character that you know kind of just like
she was so good. Oh my god. It's like I
forget that she wasn't actually her like and as an
actor who probably I haven't seen her and much because
if she's been in something, Nicholas Holt was he was.
He was always in that stupid powdered wig, which is hysterical. Uh,

(31:19):
and you know it was. I know you're not as
super well versed with the Kubrick stuff, but I was
talking to Casey today and I mentioned to you when
we were watching it, like it just reeked of Stanley
Kubrick and like, yeah, like especially Barry Lyndon obviously because
the period and because the tone and the camera work
so many like just the way he shot this thing.

(31:41):
They were just Len's wise. He did these super wide shots.
He do these fish I shots. The fish I stuff
was really like but it was weird because it's like,
can you shoot through a fish I without shooting fish
I because it would like be you know, it would
be like during like a pan or something and then
suddenly it would like fish I out did it morph
in different Yeah, there were a lot of time or
it was a really good cut. I don't know, Like again,

(32:03):
that's something that if we maybe been watching it in
one big piece, well, it's just the camera would whip
around so unique that scene in the kind of wrestling scene.
Oh my god, it was sexual. But yeah, they're like
being out of each other. That was hysterical. It was
so weird expected, like you didn't know what was going

(32:23):
to happen next. It was totally When Nicholas Holt kept
pushing her down the hill, it was just walking and
just like push her in the back and she fell
down the hill. I mean it was on the slash
he was but but I don't know. It was so great.
It was just Rachel Weiss was fucking awesome. She was awesome. Boy,
she was good. Yeah, like you know she in her career,

(32:45):
like she's one of my faces. She's really. That was awesome.
And the Stone was great. She was great. Emma Stone
just she's awesome. There's always a degree of Emma Stone
in there, like she doesn't lose, but she's great. She's
like in a Stone like she's like a likable person. Yeah,
so I think that helps. Yeah, if there's a little
bit of her in each role. Who else is in

(33:07):
that cast? I mean great cast. I don't recognize many
of these people, but probably a lot of quality English actors.
Lord Marlborough, the guy with the pet duck carried around
because it was the fastest duck. I kind of missed
all of that. She said, like, go when she was
from there were the duck races at the beginning, and

(33:29):
he always had his duck and he was like, it's
so you know, it's the fastest duck in the county.
It's too valuable. Well, no, Marlborough was her husband though,
but the duck race guy was somebody else. Oh that
was good dolphin okay, yeah, because that was who saved
her from the whorehouse, right. That distressing. But he was
like did you get raped? Like yeah, oh God, would

(33:51):
she say you can like suck for your rent or
something like that. That whole thing that they were like
keeping it there as a prisoner. But it's funny because
she did. She was so unruffled. She never worried about it.
She was not going to Yeah, she really was just
that steely resolve. And I will say, because I was
thinking about this, I was kind of comparing and contrasting
in a Stone, I really genuinely do believe that Lady

(34:13):
Marlborough was a patron. She thought she was doing the
best thing for her country, whereas I'm a Stone said it,
she said, I'm only out for myself. She was trying
to regain the status she wants. She didn't want to
be a scullery maid. She needed to be a lady.
But it was interesting because she end up having the
most impact, and it's like, well, was the best you know,
did the best thing for the country? Intoup happening? The
politics of it played pretty heavily into it totally. I

(34:35):
mean in the background, Yeah, the Whigs became kind of
the prevailing party and their politics you know, like like
a big shift basically minister changed so and she was
just being manipulated like at every turn, be Queen Anne was.
But again like I don't I don't understand enough about
what was going on at the time, But you know,
Rachel Weiss was she was at least thinking of it

(34:56):
from a country perspective. Yeah, and she was pretty like
I mean she saw a couple of times well that too,
but she said a couple of times like you know,
there's nothing. Basically, there's nothing I wouldn't do for my country.
Don't funk with me. Yeah, but she she got outstead
and then yeah, the most manipulative sweeter one. I like
her tongue inside. I like when she puts some tongue inside.

(35:20):
But the lines like that, yeah, totally like kind of vulgar. Yeah, God,
it was good. I just can't wait. Like this is
a guy that's made the lobster killing him a sacred
deer and this, and they're all so different, but they're
all weird, so unique, Like it's just with the way
films are today for someone to come along that is
this just original? Is he a writer director? Uh No,

(35:43):
I don't think so. He uh No, he didn't write this.
Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis wrote the script. Brilliant script,
so snappy and quick. All right, shall we we shall?
Sorry everybody, I'm having technical difficulties. I'll just leave this

(36:04):
in though, because who cares? Um Green Book book that
we just saw last night saw last night good. I
really liked it. It loves me feeling really good, but
like it was little hokey, like a little and I'm like,
it was a good movie. Though, like I feel bad

(36:26):
bagging on it in anyway, because there's really nothing wrong
with it. I don't know, you know exactly, and I
don't mean hokey, like unwatchable hokey. But it was just
a little bit lots of tropes and obviously some through
lines that were may have been the case, but probably added,
you know, it could have been a little more indie feeling.
I think I would have liked it more. It was
definitely mainstream, but I really really loved the relationship that

(36:48):
developed between these two really desperate men, and especially for
the time how it all went down, you know, I
don't know, and the fact that it was based on
a true story, Like I didn't know until after. You're like,
I was like, yeah that's mum. He was great. Uh
what's the guy don Shirley? Um? Ali, he was fantastic. God.

(37:15):
We both like that face. I just love that it's
a wonderful face. And his beautiful long fingers. So like,
I don't did you look up as piano playing. I
didn't play piano. He I hope he plays piano now
because he has the piano, like the beautiful long finger
piano playing that like the fingers is glad everything he
did it, like that was all believable. That was some

(37:35):
of the best, Like whatever. If he's obviously not that
kind of piano player, like he's not some kind of
virtuoso in real life. No, but he may have learned
a couple of the ones, like the ones you know,
like we're kind of like coming like starting at the
far octaves and coming up. He was playing that enough,
but these days too, I mean, I should just look
up how they did that, because these days you can
do so much with like they used a real pianist

(37:57):
hands and like comped them in on are a few times.
But no, I don't think they did that. I bet he.
He seems like somebody who takes his craft pretty seriously.
I would expect. I mean, like Ryan Gosling, La La Land.
He learned to play all of those songs, you know,
so it's likely apparently so yeah, And I think he
learned to play them well enough that they could like
you know, like at least he can keep doing the

(38:18):
things and maybe if he made any mistakes, that's a thing,
because it's like you can play those songs but play
them without a mistakes. Well, but if you do play
back and then you're you know, you got your beautiful handwork.
That's that's nice random sticking to it. But he did.
There were two songs that he played. He's known for
his beautiful handwork. That's a good band name. Yeah, you're

(38:40):
welcome to it. Vigo Mortenson was. He was really good,
but like for some reason, I had a little bit
of trouble buying him. I love you, Gul, I do too.
He and he lost himself in that role. For me,
I stopped thinking that's Vigo Morton's I eventually did. I
think for a little while, I was a little it
was a little off for me though. The actor was

(39:00):
a little bit like I've seen that character so many times,
so many times, and that accent was so that's the thing.
It almost seemed like a trope. But it's like, yeah,
like he really you know that. I think that was
the thing. Yeah, and that was the guy. I mean,
by the way, I found out the one of the

(39:21):
screenwriters was Tony Lipps Kid. So Tony lipp was an
actor too. He was in a bunch of movies over
the years, and his son. He wasn't the sopranos, I
think because he had that accent like everybody with that accent.
His son either wrote or co wrote the movie, and

(39:42):
um was in it. He played the guy you recognize
a picture of him. He played the guy at the
head of the table that said like the really bad
thing at the end where he's like, don't talk about
him like that. Oh, I know exactly. Okay, that was
his son. That's his the real Tony lipps Son who
co wrote the movie or wrote the movie. I'm trying
to look this up everyone, but I don't want to

(40:02):
hold things up. Linda CARLINI was so great. She was
She's just lovely, She's wonderful. It was a small part,
you know, but she's so warm and lovely. Yeah. Um,
And that was you know, it was just sweet. It
was like but it was really those guys. It was there.
I mean as far as the screen duo and chemistry,
it was like it was so really good and it's

(40:22):
like it made me think, you know, and how it
unraveled itself to these two different, really different guys from
really different background. You know, it's coming a mile away,
but it's it was still like satisfying. Yeah. Well, and
they kind of helped each other and taught each other
and you know, I mean it really left you, like,
you know, just feeling super warm and fuzzy, and especially
watching me hershal Ali's very like he didn't fit into

(40:46):
any world either. So that's one in the rain. Oh yeah,
when he's like I don't Yeah, it's like to be
an upper you know, like Echelon Black, a man in
the north, and we figured it was like the fifties.
Uh yeah, I'll tell you. The scene that really got

(41:09):
me was when they stopped when the radiator burst and
they're right by like the field and the cotton pickers
kind of all stopped and looked and it was just
the world's colliding, you know. It's like the white guy's
driving and the wealthy and then he opened the door,
you know, the white guy opens the door for him,
and they were all just standing there like what did
we just see? It was so crazy. But that's when
he's looking to he's like, you know, I don't have

(41:30):
anything in common with these people. Different. It was, Yeah,
he was so good well and to just you know,
just like little bits of what it must have been
like to be treated so horribly and the fortitude that
you would have to have to take it. I would
not be able to take it, Like what you like this, yeah,

(41:56):
I'd be like Tony Lift, yeah, and that guy. I mean,
I just I can't. High Road is great at all,
but when somebody is like literally like just basically spitting
on you with their words and just you know, the
emotional strength but also the pain that must have caused, Like,
I can't. I just can't imagine being a man. These
scenes were like he uh where he was like head

(42:20):
to pee and it would take me to go back
and they were like well wait, I'm like are you
Oh my god? At the dinner table, like I just
kept thinking, shame on you, Like they want him to
perform for them, but like shame on you. But I
just I just thought, like, how can you not be human?
How like you're still basically telling this man who you
brought into your house to entertain you and your friends

(42:43):
that he's sub human and he can't use your fucking bathroom.
I mean, it makes it makes me crazy just thinking
about it and think that was in the know. I know,
it's like with it. Yeah, it's really really sad and shameful,
but good movie. I think I could have. What I
think I wanted was that scene in the rain that power.
I wanted a little bit more of that, like to

(43:06):
see him being vulnerable. Well, just like moments that were
just like you know where I felt like I was
going to cry or crying, Like I didn't get super
emotional during this, and I'm usually you know me, I'm like,
I'm invested about it. Maybe it was the big the
gloss of it. Maybe I think the glosses. It was glossy,
that's what kept it like it was slightly If it'd

(43:27):
been slightly more raw, then maybe I would have thought
of it with you. I would have been a little
more invested as like best Best Picture material. But so
this is the kind of movie that the it seems
like the Oscars would pick because it just just enough
kind of representative, like non mainstream content, but it's still

(43:48):
but it's still mainstream. So yeah, all right, Roma, that
was the first one I watched. You've already seen it, Yeah,
saw in the theater and then saw it at home.
I think it's not only the best movie of the year,

(44:08):
but I think it's like a modern like masterpiece. It
was a masterpiece. It was beautiful, and the way it
was a masterpieces that it was a slice of life.
You didn't even feel like you were watching a movie.
It was like, not for a second, Yeah, you were
watching this woman's story. And while a couple really impactful

(44:29):
things happened, a lot of it was just people living
their lives. You know. It's like with these it wasn't
even so much about the events. It was like about
all of the in between moments of the ends, like
the Mexican ice storm. You know, Yeah, it reminded me
a lot of that movie, just sort of like these
lives and things that happened to people, and like on

(44:49):
a small level for her, the repetition and but all
of the like all of the she was part of
that family, and she was like mildly mistreated some times
by the mom, but I really believe she also loved
her the way they would mistreat family almost I guess
I know it was like like the way she would
talk to her husband or her kids if she was upset,

(45:09):
the way those children loved her. I mean, just I mean,
just get out of here with that. Like, well, the
the poster shot, you know that's that well when you
realize what that is, yeah, you can't get it in context,
but when you see it in the movie and they
all just surround her just like well, and that was
when she had the big like she acknowledges she didn't

(45:32):
want the baby, and like she feels all the skill
like that was kind of her cleansing too, and she
couldn't swim and she almost drowned saving the kids. It
was like, you know, but again it was like but
it was a very low drama, like you're stressed because
you know what's going on, but it wasn't this big
like flailing. She goes into the water the kids and
though she can't swim, and you just kind of see

(45:52):
like waves blobbing up the down and you see him
kind of yea, and but it's like it was it
wasn't dramatic. It was just like you're like holding your
breath because you're like, oh my god, are they Is
she going to drown trying to save these children? But
she doesn't even think there was any score during that. No,
it's just quiet, just the sounds of what was happening.
Mistaken man, what a movie. I mean, beautiful black and white,

(46:17):
really really good use of black and white, Like and
we we sort of alluded to it a second ago,
but and this is the main point I talked about
with everyone who's seen this movie as the like, I
can't even imagine this movie being shot because at no
point does it feel like like you're saying like it's
a movie being made, like the people didn't see actors.

(46:39):
I know it's I'm trying to imagine some one saying
cut and like wardrobe coming in set, design moving something.
It's like they've found a family living their lives and
had a time capsule and went back into a documentary
and to shut up with a camera and kind of
quietly followed him around. We loved the dog oh no,
because it was sort of slightly renounced different bosso he

(47:03):
was so stinky. But the like that even like that repetition,
like every time she's constantly getting the dog and getting
him away from the door and opening the door. And
then all of the ship with the car going in
that narrow space was so funny. Those details too, of
like there's this ridiculously narrow garage and these like really
wide cars and like yeah, that that the minut shot

(47:26):
that he focused on each of them got in there.
That and then the mom was pissed and shocked at
the car coming in like she just was like running
it like suck it, running into the side. All right,
So I just brought up an article called one of
the most devastating parts of Roma is dog poop. That's

(47:47):
hysterical a lot to do with it. That stressed me
out because I was thinking, that smells so bad. She's
down there on her hands and knees. Well, that the
whole beginning that you don't even realize, which was slightly
stressful for me because I was it was over the credits,
it was just water swish. Why did you not like that?
I thought it was gorgeous, don't know, it was like
it had this like menacing quolity. I don't know, because

(48:10):
you're gonna explain it about it, I was like, you know,
I got anxious about it, which made me like, all right,
can can like we just move on to what's happening
because I'm like, what is going up with this? It
went on for too long for you. It went on
much too long, and I didn't know, you know, like
I didn't have a frame of reference for what was happening.
I'm a control freak. That didn't work for me. But
then you find out, babe, well in this whole article

(48:33):
about the dog poop. It didn't you say the dog's
name once? I can't remember, But I mean, acting was
so good. What is her name? The nanny? Yeah, I
had my glasses on, but it's still too small. I'm
the worst with names. Everyone's gonna laugh at this. Yeliza
Appercio and then Nancy Garcia was Adela her colleague, and yeah,

(48:58):
their relationship was so wet. It was funny because it
was like either she's the best actress or the worst
actress because there was no acting. I don't know there's
I mean, I think he might have literally plucked them
like from obscurity, if I'm not mistaken. But what's really
interesting about that? Though she like it was so it
was such an understated performance. Most of her is just

(49:20):
like almost moving in the background, you know what I mean,
Like there's it was just her doing her work. There
was there wasn't Yeah that's her film debut, like he
just discovered. I mean she did. She wasn't super emotional,
you know, like she certainly had those rough scenes that
one in the hospital I can't evenly get into. But yeah,
and um, we don't need to talk about that, No one,

(49:45):
no one needs that. Some of the more beautiful scenes
to me were and just crazy And how did he
film this? Was the protests turned into a riot, Like
when they're up in the Baby Baby store and they're
looking out the window when it breaks out, Holy shot.
That was crazy. And then the when they're away the
at the the guesthouse when the fire happens in the woods.

(50:09):
That was crazy. And You're like in the middle of
the fire, and again I'm like so stressed out, but
there's no it's just people like kind of calmly throwing
buckets of water. When I was watching it, I wasn't
stressed because I was like, they seem like this is okay.
Dude was just like singing in his you know, in
the middle of it. But really all of it, like
these dramatic moments other than the hospital weren't even super dramatic,

(50:34):
you know. It was kind of like a camera was
just here capturing that. People weren't screaming and fire wasn't raging.
It was big music. It was just kind of like,
you know, yeah, it was good that black and white too,
you know that is up my alley. Yeah, it was
really it was a really beautiful movie. He deserves every
award he's won thus far. Okay, you know what's next.

(51:05):
What's next? A Star is born? Oh yeah, which is
not even a song. Um, we liked this movie a lot.
I loved this movie. Yeah, no, shame no, I thought
it was really good. And just for context, everyone, um

(51:26):
our our my boss you don't work here. Um my
boss is uh really really really really good friends with
Bradley Cooper. They were like each other's and they went
to college together and were like roommates and they're good
old friends. So uh, he's been talking about this movie

(51:47):
for a while because he saw an early screening and
all this stuff, and uh, that's just a little backstory,
which is super cool because you kind of have access to,
you know, trying to get him on the show. But
he's busy and notoriously not in depressed, I think, right yeah,
and just sudden like it's fine. Not everyone has to
come on movie crush, you know, like, I don't think

(52:09):
he's disadman or anything like no, no, no, no no, I
don't talk personal, so hold on to me, poor little bean,
look love. You can hear the chuck poor, which is
usually a very heavy handed poor Hey, it's not necessary well,
it's not a insult, it's a fact about you that
people might like to know. Uh. So I will say

(52:30):
this about the movie. Uh whether or not you liked
this movie, because a lot of people don't like this
movie comes down to based on people I've seen saying
that and what they're saying about it. I think it
comes down to whether or not you buy Bradley Cooper
in as Minni, Sam Elliott, Chris Christofferson, you know, yeah,
country boy Warren Singer. I totally bought it. I bought it.

(52:53):
I think Bradley Cooper is a great actor. I don't
think all of his movies he's been in have been great,
But once you see Silver Linings Playbook, You're like, that
guy can act in American Hustle, Like he's he's great. Yeah,
I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan to like legit,
A big fan. I think, in fact, that Oscar has
ripped him off terribly for not nominating for for Silver

(53:14):
Linings Playbook. But that's you know, Jennifer Lawrence got nominated,
but he didn't. I thought he was totally robbed well,
and I think he may have been wrong for Best
Director because why don't why doesn't the Academy like Bradley Cooper.
I don't know if you look at the what best
Director means, and then when you see, especially when you
see the behind the scenes, Oh my god, it was

(53:35):
like it was as close to a tour as you
could get without actually being to make yeah and staring
yeah like you know yeah, like again, It's like that
was It seems like a deliberate snub. I don't know
who else will have to talk about who else was
nominated for Best Director. But it also doesn't help when
you have thirty best pictures and five Best directors. So

(53:57):
I'm just saying, um. We talked Don Bohemian Rhapsoy about
the performance pieces, but I think this these performance pieces
were even better. Except for the live aid thing. I
think they actually these were more believable. YEA. Let me
tell you, I've never like i've I know of Lady Gaga.
Obviously every time i've I've given her a few listens

(54:18):
here and there, and I just keep thinking Madonna, you know, like,
which maybe is terribly derivative. She's a very talented piano
player and musician, but you know, that's kind of like
the style of music I don't love it. I don't
dislike it at all, but I don't, you know, I
don't have anything in particular for her, but after this,
I love her, the stripped down Lady Gaga, especially without
all the glam and different hair colors and stuff. Like
seeing her she was beautiful. And yeah, just really like

(54:42):
that she can act. She could just basically she can sing. Yeah,
we really powerful. We watched the The following night, we
watched The Christophers and Streisan and it's not a very
good movie. It's not very good. I didn't know that.
I thought it was some big classic. Yeah, it wasn't
very good. This he was way better. It was way better.
And then we watched the trailer for the Judy Garland one,

(55:04):
and like the forty minute trailer. We were like, and
I don't think I have number three in me movie
so long. I think they had like all these trailer
was full song and dance. Yeah. Yeah, it was like
a three hour movie. I get it. I get it. Yeah,
that's it was funny because I was like, are we
watching this? She was like nope, uh, Sam Ely, it's great.
Dave Chappelle and was so good. Chappelle was great. Yeah,

(55:28):
and like that was like one of his few touchstones
as he's like, you know, going off the cliff basically
not literally like Chris Cris Stoppers, Uh, Anthony Ramos from
Hamilton's and She's got to have it. She's a small
part for him, but I heart him, and yeah, she's
got to have it. I love that guy. The dice
Man was fantastic, great because you know, it's like eighties misogyny,

(55:51):
which I you know, sadly in the eighties, I loved
The dice Man even though it's a fucking pig. Well
now it's like, you know, I'm just like time and
place people that's important. There was an old lady who
lived in a shoe. She had so many kids or
uterus fell out. Out of all his bad jokes, I think, yeah,

(56:12):
like those are those are sort of like didn't age well.
But I think the old lady that shoe joke is great,
you know. But that was his That was just this thing,
and we all thought it was hysterical. And you know,
now I realized I was misled a lot of young
women in the nineteen eighties. But how many times did
we play that that song in the days after this movie?

(56:33):
It was great. Yeah, great. It was just a really
like hooky song, good song and they sound great and
she's you know. It was very like that was a
big powerful part of the movie and really good stuff.
I enjoyed this movie. I thought it was a really
enjoyable and it wasn't like, oh my god, that was
the best picture of the year, but it was just

(56:55):
a really enjoyable film. It was the great part about
being middle aged is I don't care what people think
about what I think anymore. I like what I like,
like unabashably, and if I don't like something, you know,
I'm not. It's not a snobby choice anymore. Like I
can't like that movie because it's not cool to like
that movie. Like now, if I like it, who gives
a ship? You don't care. I don't make decisions based

(57:15):
on I watch movies to make me feel things. So
it's like, if something makes me feel how I want
to feel from it, I'm in Yeah, uh good, good movie.
Get thoroughly enjoyed. I would I would like to see
it again. Actually, they're like a ton I would read
this while we bought it, didn't we now have a

(57:36):
rich apple movie by history because we had to buy
a bunch of these movies to see them before that. Yeah, um, yeah,
I don't know what they'll say. I mean a directorial
debut that is a very ballsy thing to do, is
to be the I think fourth installment of this legend

(58:00):
are Hollywood. There was a Judy Garland. Yeah, that was
a very early early silent where it was literally about
the stars in the galaxy being born from the hand
of God. That's very sweet. But God sings, Um, I
would expect God to be a great singer. She is.
It's pretty great. So uh that. Yeah, to choose this

(58:22):
as a directorial debut, to read make this because someone
was going to do it, and then in fifteen years
someone else will do another star was born. I think
that's sort of the deal. Now he met balls to
the wall, as you do it for every era or whatever.
That's just a ballsy move. I think out of the
gate as a director, it totally is, and he pulled
it off. Also, I would imagine, you know, he's been

(58:43):
around when like what a debut wedding Crashers like ten
twelve years ago. Like he's somebody who has studied his craft.
He seems like like when he learned something like he learns. Yeah,
you know, like absolutely, I needed to sit back a
little bit. That's all right. I'll tell my mic with me.
Thank your mike with you, babes. Um, do we need

(59:03):
to say anything about that good movie? I'm trying to
think about anything else to say. It was great? Yeah,
I love I thought, Um, Lady Gaga and the Dice
Man were great together too. That was their chemistry was fantastic, Ladyisman.
It was a really like it was a very sweet relationship. Yeah,

(59:24):
it's good. Um, alright, Vice, we didn't see that's the
last one, so this this will be good. Let's just
kind of go through these. I don't need to relive
Dick Cheney right now. Anyways, Lead actor Christian Bale for
Vice to see brad Cooper, Um, Willem Dafoe at Attorney's
Gate didn't see that. I never even heard of that.
So for as far as our discussion, Bradley Cooper, Rommy Mallick,

(59:45):
and Vigo Morton Synrol Well, I would say, and I
would say they're all the favorites over the other two.
I would say Rommy Malleck because again it's like all right,
so but you know, if you break down what the
attributes of best Actor, Like not only was his performance wonderful,
but he also perfectly embodied this person's like he acted

(01:00:05):
in his ass off and like as far as like
I mean, you know, this isn't the MIDI getting factor
for a vote, but as far as like the work
that goes into a role, like you know, wait, Marshall
ally didn't get no, but Vigo Mortenson, Yes, Oh well

(01:00:29):
he got nominated for supporting, so Vigo was seen as
the lead. They're actually I guess that's true. They were
co leads, but it was more his story because it's
like but then he split the vote, you know, when
you're both in the same category, So maybe it's better
they were putting. Yeah I should I intentionally did not.
I guess he was the lead, but by like a well,
because you get his backstory, So technically I guess he's

(01:00:54):
the lead. But I get to like if they want
to put them, if they don't want to put them
against each other lead actress, uh Roma, the nanny from Roma.
They do love to pull, you know, like the pack
wins like the unknown. I could see that Glenn Close
and the wife, which we didn't see. She was apparently
fantastic in that GGS for Star Wars Born. She's pretty great.

(01:01:18):
I mean best actress, you know, I don't know, she's
a great actress in it. The way I see it
is like maybe not yet, well maybe not yet. There
were parts where keep acting, Yeah, keep acting like she
was great. I would love to see like and even
like in non music movies, like she should just keep acting. Yeah,

(01:01:41):
Melissa McCarthy, I have not seen that, but it's supposed
to be really good. Can you ever forgive me? And
then Olivia Coleman for the favorite my my vote, Yeah,
I would totally who was the first one? Roma? Between
those two? But again and like, but Olivia Coleman was

(01:02:02):
acting like this is not to dis uh to dis
uh apprecio for Roma, but you're sort of right, like
he picked her because she could just inhabit this role
and be very low key, like Olivia Coleman was acting
her as she was acting her ass off. So I'm
going to give her that to be that miserable she

(01:02:24):
was like in theater, God she was and just that
she just dripped misery, like the amount of acting that
went into that and then shed a stroke and like
her face was drinking. That was like a deleted scene
if they filmed like her having a stroke. I don't
think he didn't feel particularly um obligated to explain things

(01:02:45):
he didn't feel like explaining. So I'm going to go
ahead and guess that he was just like and now
her face is dripping, all right, I'm going to vote
for her. Yeah, of it for her. I totally agree
with you on that we're in lockstep, babe. I mean,
we've been like working together on stuff a lot, so
we're like really looking alike. What should be weird? Well

(01:03:07):
maybe one land in the middle. It's a very pretty
bearded blonde thing thing. Supporting actor h Marshalla Ali for
Marshal Herlrshela. Yeah, Ali, worst time with names. Adam Driver

(01:03:29):
for Black Plans when he was good but not he
was great, But Adam Driver, he was totally being Adam
He might as well, which is great. I love Adam
Drive walked out at the end of the last scene
and like met Lena done him on the street. But
he did have to say a lot of really horrible
words and you know, like you had to act like
he wanted to be in the clan, which must have
been painful. Sam Elliott for Stars Born, he was good.

(01:03:50):
It was he made get the lifetime not well, that
was kind of like the Judy Dench would she went
for that. She was in it for the Queen like
five minutes or something like he was in He was
so under used in that. But his scenes were like
that one in the car was pretty powerful, and you know,
he was good the Lifetime like he may get it
just because everyone wants to hear road luck thenk you can. Well.

(01:04:14):
It was funny that scene with them where he was like,
you took my voice. I was like later, I was like, oh,
he meant literally like you took my voice? Because he did.
He was impersonating Sam Elliott basically, but like I didn't.
He was really good in it though he's great, but
again it was just such a it was such a
prettymrief part. Richard E. Grant for can you have a
Forgive Me? We need to see that, and then Sam

(01:04:36):
Rockwell for Advice. He played George Bush. I think, uh,
I'm gonna go with Green Book. Yeah, he was loved.
He was just like, yeah, he absolutely is going to
win that. Yeah, there's no wasn't for shame unless same
only it gets it for a lifetime a cheap and award,
but still for shame. For shame. Yeah, not for shame,

(01:04:58):
but you know I get it. Yeah right, supporting actress
any Adams for vice, just anytime she's in a movie,
to go ahead and give her one. Yeah, she plays
Dick Cheney's wife. Um roma, Marina data Vera. She must
have been. She was great. She was really good. She
was really good. She was great. Oh man, I just

(01:05:21):
felt for her. Well what was happening too? So it's
like you're watching kind of these like behind the scenes
whisperings and you have a feeling something's that. But I
genuinely thought he was in Canada being a scientists for
a while, and you know I didn't know. Well, you've
had seen it before me, so I don't act like
I'm sweet King and Regina King for beal Street talk.

(01:05:43):
Haven't seen it, but love her. Do you see the
basketball thing the other day? I need to show you this.
She got one of the biggest players in the NBA.
He's like seven ft tall, like leapt into the stands
and it was Regina King and he like literally like
saw who it was and pull his foot over her
and fell on the people behind her, and she's like,

(01:06:04):
oh my god, that's awesome, and she was tweeting after
which he's like thinking. He was like, I guess I
say Regina Kings like ever since Jerry McGuire, which I
don't even love that movie all that much. I her
like she in my heart from that. I need to
see that. If Beal Street Could Talk is supposed to
be great, and I think is it fiction? Uh? Yeah, yeah,

(01:06:24):
it's a it's a fiction story. A fiction story. Yeah,
it's like not a documentary. I don't know, Like, I
don't know what I meant by that. I'm not sure.
I mean, it's it's got to be about Memphis because
it's Beal Street. It's like a biopic or something. I
don't know. Actually, you know what, Look, that's what I
meant by Street Could Talk. Let's just see. I've just

(01:06:46):
heard a lot of people saying how great it is.
We got a pretty limited exposure. Early nine seventies. Harlem
daughter and wife to be, recalls passion, respect, and trust
that have connected her and her artist fiancee, who goes
by the nickname Funny Friends in childhood. All right, I
get it. It sounds good. Looks really good, and I

(01:07:07):
think a lot of people said that that should have
been wider recognized than the Oscars. Yeah, because it's this
the only nomination. There may be another one, but it was.
It was just supposed to be terrific. Um. Then Emma
Stone and Rachel Weis were the favorite. Yeah, both great,
so they were both Wait they were nominated because Olivia. Yeah, um,

(01:07:28):
I would pick Rachel Vice over Stone. I would too.
I would like to see her win. Actually, yeah, although
I could see them splitting votes in Marina the ta Verreau.
I don't know. I met pick her because she was
I think I can't speak for her performance though, because yeah,
I mean I'm sure it's great. She's awesome. Yeah, director

(01:07:49):
Spike never one, this could be it. I think that's well.
I've got to hear the rest because I literally haven't
looked it. I don't know this at all. A movie
called Coal War Powellski. They like mixed up and stuck
a documentary in there are like a short. He's like
the short I'd like to thank and everyone's like, who

(01:08:11):
are you cold War? I've literally never heard of this
in Poland. Huh. Interesting, It's weird that one gets by
me that I've literally never heard of, especially when this
big Yorgos lantin most for the Favorite. M hmm, pretty great,

(01:08:32):
and then Kuran for Roma, and then Adam McKay for Vice. Well, Karen,
he's been like sweeping the darling. Yeah, but he's one already.
I think he well he's one, like gold globes and stuff. Yeah,
he's one a time. Oh why do I think he's won?
An Oscar? Always get him confused with Yeah, the guy

(01:08:53):
that does the darker the No, not Benicio del Tor
who won last year. He's yeah, yeah, we were like Benico,
we were best. Like that doesn't sound right, but you
kept talking us like, wait a minute, that's not that guy.
Uh No, I don't think he unless he he might

(01:09:13):
have one best director for Gravity actually, which you never saw. No,
that's like two Hours of Stress and then Children of Men.
But you you loved Eat Mama Tombien, loved Eat Mama Tombien,
which was I guess this first long time ago? That
was what fifteen years ago? Baby? Thus one, Um, it's
eighteen years ago. Oh my god? You believe that ship

(01:09:35):
that's where you first developed your crush on those boys
is an eighteen year crush. Oh my god, you like
the one better than the other though, right, Yeah, Gail
bar bar bar Yeah he's a cutie. He hasn't well
now he's like a full grown adult. He was back
then too. That made me sound like I was like,
I'm not made school. But I don't know. It's in

(01:09:58):
the old school boys that uh boy, they make hamburger.
This is what happened. Um, I'm gonna say you're on
for Roma, but I could see a ground swell of
support for Spike Lee, especially with a message and the
coastal elite Hollywood. Yeah, and it's fucking Spike Lee, man,

(01:10:22):
Like he's made so many good movies and it's like,
you know, I really think so it's like you get
down to it that in you know, not how can
you not because it's like to just pick a movie
and say how good it is is really subjective. So
you I think there have to be other things, like
either new and out, you know, like new and screaming
out of the newness. And that's not what I was

(01:10:44):
trying to say, said the closet. I don't know what
I'm saying, like brand new coming out, streaming out of
the gate, yes, exactly, whatever, sure, or you've been around
for a long time and a lot of great films
overlooked and this is another really great film. You know.
It's like, I don't know, I'm the criterium speed like
make you want to stab your brain out, like all
of the if you were to put it onto a spreadsheet.

(01:11:05):
But at the end of the day, it's just whoever
people want to vote for. I guess it is. It's
all economy votes, right, Yeah, it's like, uh, I didn't
know this, but Nolan I did a little bit on
how they vote, and everyone gets to vote on the
Best Picture, but you only get to vote on your
colleagues for the like directors only get to vote for directors,
and writers only get to vote for writers. Actors only

(01:11:27):
vote for actors, which I never knew. Who do we meet?
That was from Price Waterhouse Coopers. I was like, did
you work on the oscars? This is like just the
end of day. Who was that? Oh? It was an attorney. Yeah,
I don't can't play where, but that was funny. I
actually know that firm because of the Academy Awards skipped down.
We won't do animated feature, although you did see Incredibles

(01:11:49):
too loved. I'm so like, I don't we hadn't seen
The Incredibles and these movies, but well, I don't watch
cartoons as a you mean, animated feature whatever. Our cartoons
um as a fairly big rule because of Bambi so

(01:12:09):
and every other cartoon that's tried to tear my heart
out with it. They all have something awful that happens exactly.
But like The Incredibles was a nice breezy passage from that,
and I love that family, and Ruby loves them. She's
so into that. And now we've gone back like I'm
I'm so on the on board with incredible and with
a little funny run. Yeah. So like I'm like, I'm

(01:12:31):
telling although I'm totally kind of wish for Spiderman into
the Spiderworse because that movie was. I guess I need
to see that because everyone keeps talking about how you
would like it like Spider Man and I like Superheroes Man.
Let's skip down to a screenplay, Buster scrugs, Cohen Brothers,

(01:12:53):
Black Clansman, Can you forgive me a beal Street Catolkic
Star is born? I don't even know Black Klansman. Maybe
it's good script, tell me Black Klansman Original Screenplay Favorite,
First Reformed Oh my god, god, First Reformed Man? Was
that this year? Yeah, the only nomination I got robbed? Well,

(01:13:14):
he did, and you know what, it was funny because
it was a director. Yeah, they got robbed because that
movie was great, and it was funny because I was
I've always been in Ethan hot fans. You know, yeah,
he's our age Reality Bites, Dubbo. It's absolutely explorers, but
then like reality Bites, and that's when you know, heart swabbing,
like all the way through all of the link a

(01:13:35):
lot of movies, and you know, like whatever people think
of him, like I've been he's great, but they were.
I was reading this really, like a New York article
or something about how basically Ethan hawk through he's just
kept on doing what he's doing, like just you know,
kind of like wax On wax Off with all the
critics and his writing and all the stuff. At how
like in his late forties he's kind of really come

(01:13:56):
into his own. And there was buzz about this, like
being I mean that perform a really good actor. He
always has been, well, I think I mean stuff like
Reality bright Bites. He's not but evil well, but even
like the Richard Linkladder stuff. It's like, again, like what
are your criteria for a good actor. It's like it's
a lot of Ethan Hawk being Ethan Hawk, and he's
charming as shit, and he's has a lot of words

(01:14:18):
exactly and he's super cute and yeah, he like get
a lot of words out and they're all really like
meaningful and deep and like we like that thing he
was just in where he played the like Burnout. He
was great in that with Rose Burn. That was a
great little like I mean just for like a Thursday
night on the TV. It was great. But first Reform Man,

(01:14:40):
that movie was God, it was so dark and he
again it was like it wasn't Ethan Hawking Ethan Hawk. Yeah,
Boyhood Boyhood, Like yeah, I'm yeah, I'm just like going
down Ethan Hawk, but you're going down, no, going down
Ethan Hawk rabbit hole. I tend to trail off without
finishing my He seems like, I don't know if you

(01:15:02):
know that about me. He seems like you might be
a little smelly. Oh really, yeah, don't you think what
is wrong with you? I hope you cut that because no, no, no,
it's staying in all the people are he totally got
ripped off for Best Actor, like he should have way
way in there. Yeah, and again it was like, you know,

(01:15:23):
after a very long career with you know, not a
lot of like best actor material, it's like he this
was a really rich, crazy role. Like what happened at
the end, We still don't know what the funk happened
in that movie. It was so crazy. Yeah, he's a
sick o man. Uh. And then Green Book, Roma and
Vice for screenplay. Every time you say Vice, I'm like, Rachel,

(01:15:48):
I'm gonna vote for the favorite there for original screenplay.
That it's really great because it was the script was
very regal at times, but also unexpected and modern and
at one point, like you one of them could have
gone like Nanny Nanni booboo and bought it. Yeah. Absolutely,
we've been within keeping well. And obviously the script had

(01:16:08):
the cheekiness. I'm sure dude Man brought the you know,
brought it out, but it's like the like the crazy
like beating each other up stuff during like the weird
like pseudo sex scene was like that must have been
in the script. Yeah, Zack attack. Well oh yeah, well
she's like like debating what to do. Yeah. Yeah, it

(01:16:31):
was like she didn't even know, like her hand was
attached to her body. Yeah, that was hysterical. I really
really liked that movie. I want to watch it again,
like straight through baby, yeah, all the way through all
these movies really two plus hours, like, where's the trim?
Ninety minutes? Where's the trim? Everybody? So let's just skip.
I mean, we don't need to cover all the stuff
in animated blah blah blah. Let's all right. Final category,

(01:16:55):
original score making, alright. The only people care that care
about those categories are the people or nominated. Oh oh sorry,
I'm just telling it like it is. And anyone who's
like I really love the sound editing is sound editor exactly.
All right, Let's cover two more categories because I think
they're relevant for us. Um Although, cinematography, okay, that's important.

(01:17:21):
Cold War, which we didn't see, the favorite movie. It
was great, it was beautiful and never look Away that
is how okay, But it's Caleb de Chanelle. Oh okay,
it's always dead right. Well, I thought he's a I
didn't know he's a roma. That that's gonna win. And
then Maddie Libertique for Stars, Oh, which I was pretty

(01:17:41):
excited to see him. He was from my music video days.
It was like coming up was the hot DP that
you worked with him a couple of times, and I
worked with him and you knew of him. No, he
was like he was somebody that we could ever guess
Scotty worked with him probably I think he did. Actually, yeah,
I remember he was somebody you know, like his name
came up a lot, but usually most of the directors
I worked with have their dps. But like I knew it,
you know, he was. He was popping up a lot,

(01:18:02):
so that was pretty exciting to see. Well, cinematography, Alfonso
Kuran shot his own movie. Well, I think he gets that.
I really did, like a Star was Born and some
of those you know that that was some great shooting.
And you know, obviously music video director. He was a
great guy to do all of that big yeah music.
But I'm going to give Karen and then let's let's
just finish with the production, design and costumes production. Black

(01:18:24):
Panther First Man, which we we didn't see the movie
about sign Black Panther like enough said what else you got?
Even Black Panther over that well. I realized at like
talk about the most believable production design, I know, but
you know what production design are they not? Yea production

(01:18:45):
design for me? Yeah, I mean that's almost like it
wasn't flashy, but yeah, well that house was super cool.
That house was great. Yeah, but that like given a
word for location scouting exactly, like that was a little
spare in the well. But then like the beautiful the
lodge scene and the fire stuff and you know it
was great. But yeah, and then Mary Poppins returns, which

(01:19:07):
we haven't seen it. Everybody, well, I want to see it.
A couple he's gotten any loved it like they loved it.
I'm gonna say the favorite. The production design was off
the church of that movie again, the Queen's quarters, Like
that room was just dripping in that hallway that led there.

(01:19:29):
They show so many machines, so many scenes that yes,
there's Charlie, there's Amelio, so many sheets, I mean, did
that was so bad? It took me a second, Dame,
and I'm pretty quick on the untake usually uh. And
then costume design buster scrugs, which you won't see. Why

(01:19:51):
will I not see that? Because it's the Coen Brothers
and it's a Western and there's animals. It's like again,
like as I film person two years in a row,
people have gotten the Emily Man. Yeah, it's super uncool
that I'm not a big Coen Brothers fan, But I'm
just not, like I've never really I think you're at
the point now where you can just like say, I'm

(01:20:11):
just not admit it and say, hey, listen, like as
if you love Fargo, but that's raising Arizona. I'm about
to give you. I'm about to you don't love Fargo.
I like Fargo. Oh Jesus, I know. I'm so sorry
that I had to drop this on you in public.
It seems safer that way. And that's your favorite Cohen
Brothers movie. Yeah, don't love Coen Brothers. I like Oh

(01:20:35):
Brother art Thou. I like Blood Simple. We don't need
to go down this. Why don't Well, I don't like
judging me. I'm not judging you. I'm judging myself for
not vetting your choice of life better. What have I
been doing? Well, I'm not just dropped one on you,

(01:20:56):
you know, like I was all right again? This is
you know, this is my black Panthers. Boy. The costumes
and Black Panther were beautiful. The favorite of course Mary
Poppins and Mary Queen of the Favorite was like, look
at many English movies and you know they always win.
Give it to Black Panther, Black Panther. Those costumes were amazing.

(01:21:18):
Yeahn't exist. There was a history to you know, they
had to create what Wakonda looked like. That's true for sure,
but yeah forgot but I don't know how like bad costumes.
And by the way, it uh in Seattle at the
MoPOP when I went to the Marvel Universe Universe whatever

(01:21:39):
exhibit not live, they had the God, they had the
the Wakonda, like the General's outfits and they were just
so cool. I want to be that for Halloween. I'm
gonna have to get in a lot better shape, be like,
well she's white, just a little chubby, but that brass

(01:21:59):
choker just carry a spear. Um all right, Well that's it.
I mean, I think we've kind of covered all the
major categories that we like to cover. Um, not the
greatest year for movies. I mean this, you know some
of these movies. I mean, Vice is supposed to be
the the worst Best Picture nomination ever. A lot of

(01:22:22):
people are that should never be said together. It's it's weird,
but more people love Bohemian Rhapsody. It's like with a
movie like that is always there's going to be a
whole group of people that just cannot like it on
just statistically agreed. So it's like, but that's how funny,
Like you're always you know, like, well, I'm going to

(01:22:42):
read the ratings for this. I'm like, I give no
ship about the ratings. Like if I like the cast,
I like the topic, I am. We're different, We're very different.
Do you have anything else? No, I don't think so.
This is great. It's good, really warm in here. I'm
surprised that I feel like I'm warmer than you. And
that's no, it's always hot in here. You can't have

(01:23:04):
a fan. Yeah, it's just it sucks. They've been sticking
us in the hot box for years. Hot box at
the old building. We're in a lactation room, for god's sakes,
biggest downloaded podcasts of all time should not be a
hot box, by the way, like, you know, poor hormonal
lactating mothers. It's like a nice cool break if they
need it. Agreed, I'm going to have to oppose your

(01:23:26):
former studio. All right, I guess that's in everybody. Thanks
for listening and for Emily and I, yeah, thanks for
having me back. Always always a pleasure, and it's going
to be sooner than later. We're gonna do this Alexander
pain thing and so look forward to that more. Emily
Up with Emily, Emily, Thanks everybody, good night,

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