June 24, 2025 • 13 mins
🛩️🏆 In this episode of The Rank Podcast, John takes flight into his Best Picture Rankings with a review of the 1927 silent war epic Wings — the very first film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Set against the backdrop of World War I, Wings tells the story of two rival pilots who fall for the same woman while facing the brutal realities of aerial combat. With groundbreaking special effects, stunning dogfight sequences, and emotional depth that still holds up nearly a century later, John breaks down how this silent classic helped define cinematic storytelling at the dawn of the Oscar era.
Does Wings soar to the top of John's Best Picture list, or has time grounded its legacy? Tune in to find out!
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(00:00):
Anyway, the sheer scale of this production is really impressive.
We have some pretty wild stunts and air acrobatics and scenes
from the sky. There's blood and nudity.
It just. I just had no idea that movies
were like this back then. Welcome back to The Rank.
(00:30):
I'm John. And today we're going to be
continuing to rank all the best picture nominees ever.
And we'll find out what the bestmovie for each year was and all
time. Today I'm ranking Wings, the
1927 best picture nominee starring Clara Bow, Charles,
Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper, with a story from
Jon Monk Saunders and Byron Morgan, titles by Julian Johnson
(00:54):
and a screenplay written by HopeLoring and Louie D Light.
It was directed by William A Wellman and Harry Debadam de
Rast the Abbot. What language is this Harry
Crazy last name. It was nominated for two Academy
Awards and won them both, one for Best Engineering Effects and
the other for Best Picture. Now if you're enjoying these
rankings or just like the idea of getting a review of all the
(01:17):
Oscar nominated movies, then please consider subscribing and
or following liking and reviewing.
Please put any of your questions, comments or
suggestions into the comments ore-mail the show.
And if you super duper like it, please consider becoming a
patron@patreon.com/the Rank podcast where you can get access
to all of the archived episodes.Now long time fans of the show
will know that the first nomineeof this year, 7th Heaven, was
(01:40):
ranked by Zach and I, and the second, The Racket, was ranked
by Mike and I. So this year, even though it
only had three nominees, went through a whole bunch of
iterations of the rank. So I figured why not round it
out with doing the last one solo?
So just as a reminder, 7th Heaven got a 69.25 putting it in
the Myth Yoker tier, and The Racket got a 75 5.5 putting it
(02:01):
in the I'd watch it again here. So that's the number to beat.
If the Academy got this one right, it has to be higher than
that. Let's dive in, starting with the
potent notables. As always, we start the potent
notables with the box office info.
Wings made $3.8 million in rentals domestically.
Now, as a reminder, rentals wereessentially profits.
That's what they called profits back then for some reason.
(02:21):
So they had a $2 million budget,which I would assume means the
revenue was around $6 million. So this is the movie that
launched Gary Cooper's career. He's only in the movie for a
brief time, but his close up cemented his heart throb status.
What's interesting is that he got in, got his start
essentially because Clara Bo sawhim on the Paramount lot, took a
fancy to him and insisted that they cast him in our upcoming
(02:43):
film. It.
That was the movie that made Clara Bo A star and also the
movie that made her and Gary a couple.
Of course that was short lived as Gary Cooper is known for
sleeping with, if not literally pretty close to literally every
single one of his female Co stars.
That's probably because as Lupe Velez said his Co star in the
1929 film The Wolf Song, he quote has the biggest organ in
(03:04):
the Hollywood but not the ass topush it in.
Well End Quote. Wow.
Wow. OK then Lupe, that's a fantastic
quote and I'm so happy I found it.
Anyway, this one movie has a similar story to The Racket.
For those of you who already listened to that episode, you
may remember that the film was lost, but they found a copy in
Howard Hughes's personal collection and were able to
(03:27):
restore it. This one also was lost for
decades until a copy was discovered in the Cinematech
Francais film archive in Paris. So that was the film.
The score of the film was located in the Library of
Congress. It was believed that this was
the only manuscript left of the music.
It's kind of crazy that we were able to pull this together.
It's crazy that I've been able to see this movie considering
(03:47):
what it had to go through to be restored.
Now, we've covered a couple movies that have had the
cooperation of the US military at this point, as recently as a
few weeks ago with Mission Impossible.
Well, this was the first one that the US military cooperated
with, starting a long relationship with Hollywood. the
US military provided around 3500soldiers, millions of dollars
worth of equipment, and virtually all the pursuit planes
(04:09):
the Army had. That's pretty.
So Speaking of military cooperation, 2 injuries happened
during the production. Considering everything going on,
you know, maybe you guys watchedthis before you're listening to
this or watching it. That doesn't seem too bad
really. One was a stunt pilot who broke
his neck and then returned to the company 6 weeks later.
The other was an Army pilot thatwas helping out on the shoot and
(04:29):
in a sign of true empathy, William Wellman, the director,
worried that it would shut down production.
But thankfully the Army held thepilot responsible instead of the
director, so everything worked out just fine.
Hey Willie. So this was also the first film
that actors were filmed flying in the air.
Charles Buddy Rogers did not know how to fly a plane when
(04:49):
production began, but learned how to by the end of it.
During filming, Rogers flight instructor and sometime backup
pilot was Lieutenant Hoyt Vandenberg.
Now for our airmen out there, you'll recognize the name from
Vandenberg Air Force Base. Vandenberg later became a
four-star general commanding the9th Air Force in World War 2 and
served as the US Air Force's first official chief of Staff
(05:10):
after the war when the Air Forcewas made a separate branch of
the military. Now for close up scenes where
Jack and David and other characters are flying, the
actors are actually working the planes themselves.
To shoot these scenes, a camera was strapped to the engine cowl,
which is crazy. The actors had to get the plane
up in the air, keep it up, fly it so that clouds or German
fighter planes could be seen in the background, operate the
(05:31):
motorized camera and land the plane and act at the same time.
But during Rodgers early flights, Vandenberg would hide
in the backseat of the plane andcreate the controls while Rogers
gave his performance. It's pretty wild.
I mean, this is really involved.So first in flight and in
nudity. Wings is also one of the first
widely released films to show nudity.
(05:51):
In the enlistment office are arenude men undergoing physical
exams who can be seen from behind through a door which is
open and closed. And Clara Bo's breasts are
revealed for, you know, a split second.
But during the Paris bedroom scene when military police barge
in as she is changing her clothes.
I just was surprised by this. And finally, this was the first
movie to win Best Picture and itwas the only fully silent movie
(06:14):
to win it. I know The Artist won it in
2011, but it wasn't fully silent.
There you go. Those are the poem notables.
I thought they were pretty good.Let's go to the movie overview.
So another foray into silent movie action.
I didn't have high hopes for this one going in.
I thought the racket was pretty good and 7th Heaven was fine.
So I figured I would think this is pretty good for the time and
not to give away the rank. I was pleasantly surprised by
(06:36):
this one. It started at an advantage
because it had clearly been remastered, so the picture was
much clearer than the other two films had been, but I tried not
to let that influence it when itcame to comparing the other two.
So Wings is a war epic that focuses on the Air Force during
World War One. We lead off with a quote from
Charles Lindbergh Quote. In that time, feats were
performed and deeds accomplishedwhich were far greater than any
(06:57):
peace accomplishments of aviation.
End Quote. We're immediately getting a
sense of the epic that this wants to be.
It's got a large scope, but theytry to scale it down a bit by
introducing our protagonists, Jack, Mary, David into a lesser
degree. So the movie lets us know that
Sylvia and David like each other, but Jack doesn't know
that and likes Sylvia and thinksshe likes him back.
Of course, poor Mary has been crushing on Jack for a long time
(07:20):
and Jack is just oblivious. So basically the only two that
have any idea what they really want are David and Sylvia.
This becomes a sort of love triangle, which results in Jack
and David spoiling for a fight. And I'm giving a little bit away
here, but the movie came out almost 100 years ago, so it
feels like if you're listening to it, to this episode or
watching it, you should have already.
Anyway, David and Jack end up becoming best friends.
(07:42):
An aspect of this war epic that felt a little out of place was
the character named Shrimp. He's our Comic Relief guy.
But the Comic Relief is just very slapstick.
And I get it, They can't really tell jokes because it's silent.
But I mean, this was really goofy.
Also, was there an historic xenophobia toward the Dutch in
the early 20th century? I haven't heard of this.
(08:02):
A poor Shrimp fear is to keep proving himself as a patriot
because he's Dutch. I mean, I get it.
It makes me throw up in my moutha little too too, but I didn't
know that my feeling toward the Dutch was an inherited trait.
I'm kidding by the way. I, in case that isn't coming
across, didn't sound like a joke.
Anyway. The sheer scale of this
production is really impressive.We have some pretty wild stunts
and air acrobatics and scenes from the sky.
(08:24):
There's blood and nudity. It just, I just had no idea that
movies were like this back then.But besides the blood and
nudity, it was just a well put together film that was trying to
give you a sense of what war waslike and it was effective at
that. So let's see if the Academy got
it right with their first best picture selection.
Is it better than 7th Heaven in the Racket?
How does it rank against more modern films that have already
been ranked? Let's go to the rank and find
(08:44):
out a rank. The rank is where I rank the
movie based on 10 categories, Story, acting, originality, film
coherent cinematography, score, slash, soundtrack, slash, sound,
script structure and dialogue, character relatability,
production value, and my rank. I rank it on a scale of one to
10, one being the worst and 10 being the best.
Now, if you're new to this show,you know that I typically rank
(09:07):
movies on a scale of 1 to 5. A long time ago, we decided we'd
do one to 10 for the Best Picture nominees because it
would give us more leeway. But really what ended up
happening is we just ended up closer to 10 as opposed to being
closer to 5. But whatever.
Now, the first category is Story, which I gave a 7 1/2.
The story is good. It wants to be a love story
about Jack and Mary. It also wants to be a love story
about David and Sylvia. It also wants to be a love story
(09:29):
about David and Jack. But really, it's a love story
about the Air Force during WorldWar One.
It's fine, too effective for thefirst 3, but it's excellent at
the last. So let's go to the next
category, which is ACT thing, which I give A7.
There's a lot of very campy acting in this and hamming it up
for the camera, but it's a silent movie, so there needs to
be. I'm definitely giving it a break
for that reason, but it's still not great.
It's not bad though. I want to be clear, this is
(09:49):
pretty good acting. So let's go to originality,
which I gave an 8 1/2. I don't think it was original to
do a movie that center centers around World War One at the
time. However, to film in the sky in
planes, that's pretty darn original for 1927.
So the next category is film coherence, which I gave a six.
It's a little all over the place.
We have these weird slapstick comedy moments and then heavy
(10:10):
romantic feeling and then some really grim depictions of war.
I mean, that's fine, but it definitely kept you like on your
toes, like what's coming next. So not the most coherent, but
not terrible here. So let's go to cinematography,
which I give a 9.25. I felt like they took a lot of
risks here and really explored their options as far as this
category goes. I thought it was really
impressive. They also didn't linger too much
(10:33):
in close-ups. And this felt in a lot of ways
that this this was a more modernfilm as far as cinematography
mechanics, so pretty impressive.So let's go to score Slash
soundtrack, slash sound, which Igave a nine.
The soundtrack was great. Actually, after watching this
movie, I'm inclined to lower my scores for 7th Heaven and the
racket, because if a silent movie soundtrack can be this
good, then they should have beena lot better.
(10:53):
But anyway, let's go to the nextcategory, which which is script
structure and dialogue. And I gave that an 8.25.
Now, obviously there's not much dialogue, but the the frames
with writing on it felt much more naturally conversational
than 7th heaven. And they also progressed the
plot more than the racket. These movies are my frames of
reference as they're the only silent movies I've really ever
seen outside of what was playingin the background when I was a
(11:15):
kid. All right, so next category is
character relatability, which I gave an 8.
It's very relatable for the mostpart.
Some of the situations in this feel avoidable.
And David stoicism at the end feels wrong.
I don't want to give it away. I've tried to avoid spoilers
throughout this. Just in case you didn't watch
it, There's a scene toward the end between Jack and David that
loses relatability. Mary is relatable.
(11:37):
I think we've all experienced it's unrequited love, it's not
enjoyable, and it's not enjoyable from air.
So play them. All right, so let's go to
production value, which I gave a10.
The money and time spent on thisproduction is evident and kind
of incredible. It really feels like they spared
no expense, but just spending a lot of money doesn't
automatically give you a high score in this.
You need to use it right, and they definitely did.
So it's really an impressive piece of movie making.
(12:00):
So let's go to the final category, which is my rank.
I gave it an 8 1/2. I was sort of shocked by how
much I enjoyed this film. I was expecting to sort of slog
through the silent movies and 7th Heaven was a little bit that
way and the racket was better, but still a little bit that I
saw the runtime of nearly 2 1/2 hours and I did not have high
hopes for this one, but it was engaging and enjoyable and just
(12:21):
really well done. So all together that puts wings
at an 82, which puts it in the I'd watch it again here.
It actually falls just below Dune 2 and a above Anatomy of
fall and Enora, which I was surprised by.
Ultimately, the Academy got their first pick right.
A good job Academy. So thanks for listening
everybody or and or watching. If you'd like to see a list of
our updated best picture series rankings, you can do that on our
(12:43):
website at the rank with John and zach.com.
Remember to subscribe, review and comment.
And please consider supporting us on our Patreon site at
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archived episodes. Thanks again.
And off we go into the wild blueYonder.
(13:13):
So, as always, let's start the pole.
We're going to split the hey, hey, he's doing it again.
Anyway, the sheer scale of this production is really impressive.
We have some pretty wild stunts and air acrobatics and scenes
from the sky. There's blood and nudity.
It just. I just had no idea that movies
were like this back then. Welcome back to The Rank.
(00:30):
I'm John. And today we're going to be
continuing to rank all the best picture nominees ever.
And we'll find out what the bestmovie for each year was and all
time. Today I'm ranking Wings, the
1927 best picture nominee starring Clara Bow, Charles,
Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper, with a story from
Jon Monk Saunders and Byron Morgan, titles by Julian Johnson
(00:54):
and a screenplay written by HopeLoring and Louie D Light.
It was directed by William A Wellman and Harry Debadam de
Rast the Abbot. What language is this Harry
Crazy last name. It was nominated for two Academy
Awards and won them both, one for Best Engineering Effects and
the other for Best Picture. Now if you're enjoying these
rankings or just like the idea of getting a review of all the
(01:17):
Oscar nominated movies, then please consider subscribing and
or following liking and reviewing.
Please put any of your questions, comments or
suggestions into the comments ore-mail the show.
And if you super duper like it, please consider becoming a
patron@patreon.com/the Rank podcast where you can get access
to all of the archived episodes.Now long time fans of the show
will know that the first nomineeof this year, 7th Heaven, was
(01:40):
ranked by Zach and I, and the second, The Racket, was ranked
by Mike and I. So this year, even though it
only had three nominees, went through a whole bunch of
iterations of the rank. So I figured why not round it
out with doing the last one solo?
So just as a reminder, 7th Heaven got a 69.25 putting it in
the Myth Yoker tier, and The Racket got a 75 5.5 putting it
(02:01):
in the I'd watch it again here. So that's the number to beat.
If the Academy got this one right, it has to be higher than
that. Let's dive in, starting with the
potent notables. As always, we start the potent
notables with the box office info.
Wings made $3.8 million in rentals domestically.
Now, as a reminder, rentals wereessentially profits.
That's what they called profits back then for some reason.
(02:21):
So they had a $2 million budget,which I would assume means the
revenue was around $6 million. So this is the movie that
launched Gary Cooper's career. He's only in the movie for a
brief time, but his close up cemented his heart throb status.
What's interesting is that he got in, got his start
essentially because Clara Bo sawhim on the Paramount lot, took a
fancy to him and insisted that they cast him in our upcoming
(02:43):
film. It.
That was the movie that made Clara Bo A star and also the
movie that made her and Gary a couple.
Of course that was short lived as Gary Cooper is known for
sleeping with, if not literally pretty close to literally every
single one of his female Co stars.
That's probably because as Lupe Velez said his Co star in the
1929 film The Wolf Song, he quote has the biggest organ in
(03:04):
the Hollywood but not the ass topush it in.
Well End Quote. Wow.
Wow. OK then Lupe, that's a fantastic
quote and I'm so happy I found it.
Anyway, this one movie has a similar story to The Racket.
For those of you who already listened to that episode, you
may remember that the film was lost, but they found a copy in
Howard Hughes's personal collection and were able to
(03:27):
restore it. This one also was lost for
decades until a copy was discovered in the Cinematech
Francais film archive in Paris. So that was the film.
The score of the film was located in the Library of
Congress. It was believed that this was
the only manuscript left of the music.
It's kind of crazy that we were able to pull this together.
It's crazy that I've been able to see this movie considering
(03:47):
what it had to go through to be restored.
Now, we've covered a couple movies that have had the
cooperation of the US military at this point, as recently as a
few weeks ago with Mission Impossible.
Well, this was the first one that the US military cooperated
with, starting a long relationship with Hollywood. the
US military provided around 3500soldiers, millions of dollars
worth of equipment, and virtually all the pursuit planes
(04:09):
the Army had. That's pretty.
So Speaking of military cooperation, 2 injuries happened
during the production. Considering everything going on,
you know, maybe you guys watchedthis before you're listening to
this or watching it. That doesn't seem too bad
really. One was a stunt pilot who broke
his neck and then returned to the company 6 weeks later.
The other was an Army pilot thatwas helping out on the shoot and
(04:29):
in a sign of true empathy, William Wellman, the director,
worried that it would shut down production.
But thankfully the Army held thepilot responsible instead of the
director, so everything worked out just fine.
Hey Willie. So this was also the first film
that actors were filmed flying in the air.
Charles Buddy Rogers did not know how to fly a plane when
(04:49):
production began, but learned how to by the end of it.
During filming, Rogers flight instructor and sometime backup
pilot was Lieutenant Hoyt Vandenberg.
Now for our airmen out there, you'll recognize the name from
Vandenberg Air Force Base. Vandenberg later became a
four-star general commanding the9th Air Force in World War 2 and
served as the US Air Force's first official chief of Staff
(05:10):
after the war when the Air Forcewas made a separate branch of
the military. Now for close up scenes where
Jack and David and other characters are flying, the
actors are actually working the planes themselves.
To shoot these scenes, a camera was strapped to the engine cowl,
which is crazy. The actors had to get the plane
up in the air, keep it up, fly it so that clouds or German
fighter planes could be seen in the background, operate the
(05:31):
motorized camera and land the plane and act at the same time.
But during Rodgers early flights, Vandenberg would hide
in the backseat of the plane andcreate the controls while Rogers
gave his performance. It's pretty wild.
I mean, this is really involved.So first in flight and in
nudity. Wings is also one of the first
widely released films to show nudity.
(05:51):
In the enlistment office are arenude men undergoing physical
exams who can be seen from behind through a door which is
open and closed. And Clara Bo's breasts are
revealed for, you know, a split second.
But during the Paris bedroom scene when military police barge
in as she is changing her clothes.
I just was surprised by this. And finally, this was the first
movie to win Best Picture and itwas the only fully silent movie
(06:14):
to win it. I know The Artist won it in
2011, but it wasn't fully silent.
There you go. Those are the poem notables.
I thought they were pretty good.Let's go to the movie overview.
So another foray into silent movie action.
I didn't have high hopes for this one going in.
I thought the racket was pretty good and 7th Heaven was fine.
So I figured I would think this is pretty good for the time and
not to give away the rank. I was pleasantly surprised by
(06:36):
this one. It started at an advantage
because it had clearly been remastered, so the picture was
much clearer than the other two films had been, but I tried not
to let that influence it when itcame to comparing the other two.
So Wings is a war epic that focuses on the Air Force during
World War One. We lead off with a quote from
Charles Lindbergh Quote. In that time, feats were
performed and deeds accomplishedwhich were far greater than any
(06:57):
peace accomplishments of aviation.
End Quote. We're immediately getting a
sense of the epic that this wants to be.
It's got a large scope, but theytry to scale it down a bit by
introducing our protagonists, Jack, Mary, David into a lesser
degree. So the movie lets us know that
Sylvia and David like each other, but Jack doesn't know
that and likes Sylvia and thinksshe likes him back.
Of course, poor Mary has been crushing on Jack for a long time
(07:20):
and Jack is just oblivious. So basically the only two that
have any idea what they really want are David and Sylvia.
This becomes a sort of love triangle, which results in Jack
and David spoiling for a fight. And I'm giving a little bit away
here, but the movie came out almost 100 years ago, so it
feels like if you're listening to it, to this episode or
watching it, you should have already.
Anyway, David and Jack end up becoming best friends.
(07:42):
An aspect of this war epic that felt a little out of place was
the character named Shrimp. He's our Comic Relief guy.
But the Comic Relief is just very slapstick.
And I get it, They can't really tell jokes because it's silent.
But I mean, this was really goofy.
Also, was there an historic xenophobia toward the Dutch in
the early 20th century? I haven't heard of this.
(08:02):
A poor Shrimp fear is to keep proving himself as a patriot
because he's Dutch. I mean, I get it.
It makes me throw up in my moutha little too too, but I didn't
know that my feeling toward the Dutch was an inherited trait.
I'm kidding by the way. I, in case that isn't coming
across, didn't sound like a joke.
Anyway. The sheer scale of this
production is really impressive.We have some pretty wild stunts
and air acrobatics and scenes from the sky.
(08:24):
There's blood and nudity. It just, I just had no idea that
movies were like this back then.But besides the blood and
nudity, it was just a well put together film that was trying to
give you a sense of what war waslike and it was effective at
that. So let's see if the Academy got
it right with their first best picture selection.
Is it better than 7th Heaven in the Racket?
How does it rank against more modern films that have already
been ranked? Let's go to the rank and find
(08:44):
out a rank. The rank is where I rank the
movie based on 10 categories, Story, acting, originality, film
coherent cinematography, score, slash, soundtrack, slash, sound,
script structure and dialogue, character relatability,
production value, and my rank. I rank it on a scale of one to
10, one being the worst and 10 being the best.
Now, if you're new to this show,you know that I typically rank
(09:07):
movies on a scale of 1 to 5. A long time ago, we decided we'd
do one to 10 for the Best Picture nominees because it
would give us more leeway. But really what ended up
happening is we just ended up closer to 10 as opposed to being
closer to 5. But whatever.
Now, the first category is Story, which I gave a 7 1/2.
The story is good. It wants to be a love story
about Jack and Mary. It also wants to be a love story
about David and Sylvia. It also wants to be a love story
(09:29):
about David and Jack. But really, it's a love story
about the Air Force during WorldWar One.
It's fine, too effective for thefirst 3, but it's excellent at
the last. So let's go to the next
category, which is ACT thing, which I give A7.
There's a lot of very campy acting in this and hamming it up
for the camera, but it's a silent movie, so there needs to
be. I'm definitely giving it a break
for that reason, but it's still not great.
It's not bad though. I want to be clear, this is
(09:49):
pretty good acting. So let's go to originality,
which I gave an 8 1/2. I don't think it was original to
do a movie that center centers around World War One at the
time. However, to film in the sky in
planes, that's pretty darn original for 1927.
So the next category is film coherence, which I gave a six.
It's a little all over the place.
We have these weird slapstick comedy moments and then heavy
(10:10):
romantic feeling and then some really grim depictions of war.
I mean, that's fine, but it definitely kept you like on your
toes, like what's coming next. So not the most coherent, but
not terrible here. So let's go to cinematography,
which I give a 9.25. I felt like they took a lot of
risks here and really explored their options as far as this
category goes. I thought it was really
impressive. They also didn't linger too much
(10:33):
in close-ups. And this felt in a lot of ways
that this this was a more modernfilm as far as cinematography
mechanics, so pretty impressive.So let's go to score Slash
soundtrack, slash sound, which Igave a nine.
The soundtrack was great. Actually, after watching this
movie, I'm inclined to lower my scores for 7th Heaven and the
racket, because if a silent movie soundtrack can be this
good, then they should have beena lot better.
(10:53):
But anyway, let's go to the nextcategory, which which is script
structure and dialogue. And I gave that an 8.25.
Now, obviously there's not much dialogue, but the the frames
with writing on it felt much more naturally conversational
than 7th heaven. And they also progressed the
plot more than the racket. These movies are my frames of
reference as they're the only silent movies I've really ever
seen outside of what was playingin the background when I was a
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kid. All right, so next category is
character relatability, which I gave an 8.
It's very relatable for the mostpart.
Some of the situations in this feel avoidable.
And David stoicism at the end feels wrong.
I don't want to give it away. I've tried to avoid spoilers
throughout this. Just in case you didn't watch
it, There's a scene toward the end between Jack and David that
loses relatability. Mary is relatable.
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I think we've all experienced it's unrequited love, it's not
enjoyable, and it's not enjoyable from air.
So play them. All right, so let's go to
production value, which I gave a10.
The money and time spent on thisproduction is evident and kind
of incredible. It really feels like they spared
no expense, but just spending a lot of money doesn't
automatically give you a high score in this.
You need to use it right, and they definitely did.
So it's really an impressive piece of movie making.
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So let's go to the final category, which is my rank.
I gave it an 8 1/2. I was sort of shocked by how
much I enjoyed this film. I was expecting to sort of slog
through the silent movies and 7th Heaven was a little bit that
way and the racket was better, but still a little bit that I
saw the runtime of nearly 2 1/2 hours and I did not have high
hopes for this one, but it was engaging and enjoyable and just
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really well done. So all together that puts wings
at an 82, which puts it in the I'd watch it again here.
It actually falls just below Dune 2 and a above Anatomy of
fall and Enora, which I was surprised by.
Ultimately, the Academy got their first pick right.
A good job Academy. So thanks for listening
everybody or and or watching. If you'd like to see a list of
our updated best picture series rankings, you can do that on our
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website at the rank with John and zach.com.
Remember to subscribe, review and comment.
And please consider supporting us on our Patreon site at
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archived episodes. Thanks again.
And off we go into the wild blueYonder.
(13:13):
So, as always, let's start the pole.
We're going to split the hey, hey, he's doing it again.
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