Mike and Kelsey talk about their favorite moments from the Oscars last night. From Mike getting hype that his prediction of Brendan Fraser winning for “The Whale" came true to Kelsey getting emotional Ke Huy Quan’s speech. Mike and Kelsey talks about who they were happy DIDN’T win, who was left out of the in memoriam and how the overall entertainment value of the award show.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to our Oscar Recap twenty twenty three edition. We'll
be talking about snobs, We'll be talking about surprises, We'll
be talking about our favorite moments. I'm joined by my
wife and co host Kelsey. How are you. I'm great.
I'm excited to talk about this. Let's get right into it.
Your favorite moment from the Oscars easily within like the
first few minutes. It was keihoy kwon winning Best Supporting Actor.
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I cried, you did? You got very emotional crowd, the
entire Oscars. I love that moment. Here is that clip
from last night. My mom is eighty four years old
and she's at home watching Mom. I just want an Oscar.
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I'm gonna play the whole thing. I love it. My
Jurney started on a boat. I spent a year in
a refugee cap and somehow I ended up here on
Hollywood's biggest stage. They say stories like this only happened
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in the movies. I cannot believe it's happening to me.
This is the American dreaming. Even just listening to it again,
it makes me so emotional. The American dream, the definition
of it. I didn't know all that about him and
seeing him deliver that speech and in that moment, to
go from not acting at all after being a childhood
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actor and now being there, not only being nominated, but winning,
freaking winning an Oscar. I think that's what made that
whole night so inspiring, seeing people win for the very
first time. He is so easy to root for. He
seems like the most genuine person and just like his joy,
Like you could even see the prisoners were tearing up
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before they even announced that it was him, because everyone
was rooting for him. And I watched a clip today
of him like bouncing into the press room with like
holding his Oscar up high, and oh yeah, it made
me tear up, and I'm just so excited for him.
I think sometimes I get a little bit jaded with awards,
even though as much as I love the Oscars, it
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just seems that in previous years it's a popularity contest,
who is the coolest, hottest actor They're going to win
the award. And I really felt like this year was
a celebration of the underdog and a celebration of just
raw performance, just really great performances. I felt like this
year's Oscars I enjoyed the most that I have in
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a long time, because it was actually a celebration of
movies and what they are and it's art rather than
the most popular person or movie winning. And you know,
there were still some popular movies nominated Elvis Top Gun,
but like the ones that won were the ones that
had a really unique approach to storytelling. And that shows
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with how many wins, everything everywhere, all at once received
seven sweet. It was like every time they got called
up they were like, oh no, we have to go
up there again. I wasn't expecting the seven wins out
of the eleven nominations. This movie is now one of
the most I think, if not the most awarded movie
of all time, which is crazy. And I remember when
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this movie came out, I was telling everybody about it. Yeah,
we still need to watch it again because it's been
probably a year since we saw it. Yeah, probably close
to a year. So I need to see it again
to appreciate it even more. My favorite moment of the night,
can you guess it? Yeah? Probably the other one that
I cried at Brendan Frasier winning for Best Actor. Here's
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this speech. I started in this business thirty years ago,
and things they didn't come easily to me, But there
was a facility that I didn't appreciate at the time
until it stopped. And I just want to say thank
you for this acknowledgement because it couldn't be done without
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my cast Let's go winning his first Oscar. It was incredible,
Still a travesty to me that The Whale wasn't nominated
for Best Picture, but even more so than what it
would have meant to me for that movie to win,
seeing him win, seeing how emotional he is, feeling like
he is a little bit of his character Charlie, and
just how much everybody, out of all the winners, rooted
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for each other. Yeah, I know a lot of it
was everything everywhere, all at once, rooting for their cast mates.
But I felt like, maybe because it was an a
twenty four connection with Brendan Frasier, Jamie Lee Curtis, everybody
just had this like yes, you're up there winning, just
the great moments and again just like Brendan Frasier just
seems like a solid guy and like you're so excited
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for the underdog, like he hasn't had a big role
in years. Yeah, this is this comeback. And just seeing
him talk too, I just like the way like he
seems so genuine, seems so nice, seems so just appreciative
of his career. Being back now, so I can't wait
to see what he does next. But now knowing that
he is an Academy Award winner, like that just changes
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his life. And I think that's what I saw throughout
the night of how awards can actually change somebody's life,
That validation of something you've worked for your entire life.
At some point people told you you would never achieve this.
You are now there on the biggest stage winning this honor.
So I think after this Oscars, I start to view
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the whole winning process a little bit different. I hope too,
than it means that we see some of these amazing
winners in more movies. Yeah, going forward, Yeah, getting being
able to get different roles, I mean, yeah, that adds
a lot to your resume. That makes your red goo up.
Winning an Oscar, I will say. The other I watched
a lot of TikTok clips about the Oscars today. The
other one that I loved was Brendan Frasier. It's all
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the press room ones that you don't get to see. Yeah,
he got a standing ovation from the entire press when
he walked in and he was just so emotional, And
it's just those moments of like genuine you can tell
how much it means to someone and it's not just
another trophy on a shelf, like if they feel as
if their craft is being recognized for all the hard
work they put into it. And I mean even though
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they did a lot of the cosmetic changes for Brendan
Fraser with CGI which they want to award for they did,
I will say I think he had to dig deep
down emotionally to play that character. To put yourself in
that headspace, like you have to really go there. It's
as much I feel like as a transformation as like
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Christian Bale or help me on who else has changed
their body for like Daniel de Lewis, Yes, like any
of those, I think going on the opposite spectrum and
like having to play someone struggling with morbid obesity and
to get in that mindset was probably very challenging. Yeah,
it was interesting how they explained how they did the
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makeup that they wanted it to. They wanted him still
have control over his facial features to show expression that
something you don't think about. It's cool but now those
were our favorite moments. We're going to run through now
all of the winners and we'll talk about some surprises
and some snubs as we go along through these. But
obviously the big winner was everything everywhere, all at once.
Took it home for Best Picture. And then when they won,
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Keihoy Kon and Harrison Ford reunited the cutest hug. I
just wanted to bottle that moment up. It was so sweet. Yeah,
that's side by side of them from last night and
then them from back in the day on Indiana Jones
and it's funny. I saw an interview where Harrison Ford
referred to him like still as a kid, and he's like, oh,
he's not a kid. Yeah. It's just crazy the relationship
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they had. I've seen like all these pictures of him
with you know, directors throughout the years of like him
and Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. It's just crazy to
go from that and now here you are, like it
surely is inspiring that anything can happen if you don't
give up on your dream. But that is the winner
for Best Picture. Best Actor, of course, went to Brendan
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Frasier in the Whale Best Actress went to Michelle Yo
from everything everywhere, all at once, I had heard a win.
We did note that was like has to be awkward
in the first like millisecond of hearing that, because Williams
was also nominated, So it's like you hear Michelle and
then you're like that one like Middlesecond, your brand isn't me,
isn't me? Isn't men? Fifty a winner right now? Yeah,
that was cool to see her win. Here is her
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speech from last night. For all the little boys and
girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a
beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that dreams
dream big, and dreams do come true. And ladies, don't
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let anybody tell you you ever posture prime great quote
from her in her speech. Loved her speech. And then
going down the list again Best Actor in a Supporting Girl,
I thought it was gonna go to Brendan Gleeson. I
think the most surprising thing out of all of the
awards of the night is how the Banshees of Minasharan
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won zero awards with all the nominations. I just felt
like that was one that the Academy would vote on,
but I was really glad to see Keyhoy kuanwin. Yeah,
I think definitely deserved it. I just when we were
talking about that, I could envision it in my head,
but I just thought the way they were going to
vote would be for Banshees of Innishar and Brendan Gleason.
I mean, I would have loved to hear Brendan Gleason
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do a speech because I just love the Irish accent.
They talked about that a lot throughout the night. My
favorite part, well my favorite part, but I did like
when they brought out the Donkey, the brought out Jenny,
they brought out the Donkey. Best Actress in a Supporting
role went to Jamie Lee Curtis, winning her very first Oscar.
Here is her speech from last night. And my mother
and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories.
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I just want an Oscar. I think she was just
very kind of like everybody else, shocked by the fact
that she won. But she's been one who has been
so supportive of all of her co stars. She's the
one yelling in the crowd and anybody else goes up
there and wins, And I felt in that moment was
her just kind of reflecting on like everything in her career,
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her parents, and then finally winning an Oscar in the
same year that she put out one of the worst
movies of the year, Halloween Ends, So I thought that
was cool for her. I also didn't envision her to win.
I thought Angela Bassett would have won for Black Panther.
I did. I was rooting for Angela Bassett, but everything
everywhere all at once coming in with the sweep. Because
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for Best Director, the Daniels one, I had them to
win as well. They're great directors, and I think the
best thing out of that is kind of what you
were saying earlier, is now they have the golden ticket
to make whatever they want, which they've already been doing
in their career, but after dominating the Oscars, they can
take that and say, we have this idea, it's going
to work because it's worked in the past. Give us
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all the money. Yeah, and now everybody's gonna start ripping
them off too. But that comes with the territory. But
if you're not them, probably can't be executed as well.
It's true, and it also proves that just because you
have a lot of money and a big budget in
a movie that doesn't mean it's going to be successful.
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness cost over two
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hundred million dollars to make everything everywhere, all at once,
cost twenty million dollars to make, or maybe twenty five
million dollars, a way smaller budget, but it tore the
roof of what the multiverse is. So that just proves
to you all you need is the creativity, the drive
to do it, and the execution of your ideas, and
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you can win an Oscar. And I'm glad that when
we look back on twenty twenty three, this will be
the movie that represents the entire year. For animated feature,
the winner went to Garmo de Toro's Pinocchio. I had
that one to win. I felt that was an easy
win just because of the animation style, just because of
Gearmo Dotorro. So I didn't feel like that was the
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hardest pick to win. Animation is always a tough category
because you'll have a really big, intricate movie like Pinocchio,
but then you'll have like Puss in Boots and Turning
Red and so it's like, I don't really know where
this is going to go. But I ssum they're gonna
go with the more artsy film. Cinematography went to All
Quiet on the Western Front, which they took homeb Basically
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every technical award they won like four right, yeah, which
it seemed like they were winning a lot of a
row yeah, which it made it seem like they were dominating,
But they just won for everything technical. They were at
four and four with everything everywhere, and so I think
that's why it felt like a sweep as well, because
it was just like the two of them dominated, getting
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up again and again and again, but when it came
to the big categories, it was all everything everywhere. Original
Song went to not To not To from R R R.
I enjoyed their song performance. It was great, it was fun.
And then although I really did like Rihanna performing Lift
Me Up, which is the song I picked a win
both great songs. Who doesn't enjoy a Rihanna performance? For
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Original Score, it also went to All Quiet on the
Western Front. I had the fable Men's to win. The
Fable Men's, which I had picked a win, did not
win a single award, which was surprising to me and
also not surprising to me because I don't really think
that was Steven Spielberg's best movie that he's done. I
do think Michelle Williams her nomination was rightfully deserved. She's
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awesome in that I would not have flinched if she
would have won. And then the last one that we
did in our predictions episode was for makeup and Hairstyling,
which I had. Elvis did not ended up going to
the Whale, which was probably the better pick. Elvis did
not end up picking up any awards either, which was
kind of a relief I did not want. Mainly I
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did not want Austin Butler to win for Best Actor.
I screamed so loud, one because I was happy for
Britain Fraser, but two that it wasn't Austin Butler, but
mostly that it was for Brittain Fraser, but mostly that
Austin Butler. No, I'm just kidding, Mostly that I just
didn't want him to win. I just felt like that
role just playing somebody iconic doesn't translate always into winning
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an award, and I'm kind of over the music biopic genre,
so we've just like crammed him. In the past few years,
there's been a lot. There's been a lot of it
and I've just found as people were hyping that movie up,
saying that she went for Best Picture, nothing about its
screen best Picture. I think in two years we'll forget
about that Elvis movie. We'll move on from it. So
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bold take. I like these movies to be representative. That's
what I like to do. I like to go back
in the years, well one Best Picture, Oh yeah, that
was a good one. To go back and watch that
and feel like that was what was going on in
the world at that time. The best creative minds in film,
that is what they made. That is the choice. Not
to say they haven't picked wrong some years, but I
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feel like usually it's a pretty good job I will give.
Can I give an honorable mention to my other favorite
moment of the night Best Adapted Screenplay going to Women Talking. Yeah,
that was a good moment. I was so excited. I
accidentally ruined it for a friend whose TV was lagging
a little bit. That's a live show, no, but I
was like, yeah to this winning and she was like,
I'm behind snoops, But I loved that movie. Thought that
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award was so well deserved. Also, her speech iconic when
she said glad that people weren't offended by the words
of women and talking next to each other. But when
it came to the Awards show, just on its own,
how entertaining do you feel like? It was so many
Will Smith jokes. It was so many Will Smith jokes.
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When we go back to the monologue, I would probably
rate it like a B minus And it was just
Will Smith. I know they had to go at it.
If they didn't make one, people will be like, hey,
they didn't even bring it up. So I can see
it from the writing standpoint of wanting to include it.
And it's also kind of being the low hanging fruit,
like you just make a joke about that, everybody will laugh.
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But I felt like the monologue dragged a little bit,
and I like Jimmy Kimmel, it was just everything was
so focused on making a big deal about the slap
and the security. It was just I was kind of
over it. And they did it almost every single time
he was on screen, almost every single time yep. And
the only one I actually thought was funny it was
at the very end, whenever he walks off the stage
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number of oscars without the any change of the number,
I was like, Okay, that's funny, that's like cartoon humor. Yeah.
Aside from that, I was a little bit tired of it,
so I felt like that made it a little bit
less enjoyable. They didn't really have a lot of bits
that they did. The only memorable one for me was
Cocaine Bear, which was funny. Yeah, him coming out, him
going out into the crowd. But I didn't really feel
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like they went for that viral Oscar moment. I just
felt like there were so many wholesome moments, like when
the winners of was it the live action short film
the Irish could buy? Oh yeah, they took the moment.
They were like, for the rest of our speech, we'd
love for everyone to sing happy Birthday. Like that was
so cool. I felt like it was a very it's
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very wholesome. Really warmed my heart. It just felt like
a bunch of famous people hanging out almost being as
normally as you can be being that famous. Yeah. My
other favorite part was the fashion. I know this isn't
a fashion podcast, but I love the Oscars fashion. Who
is your favorite favorite outfit? Oh, Kara day Lavine's red
dress was amazing. Rihanna Mindy Kaling looked great. How do
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you feel about the rocks pinkish looking suit. I didn't
pay that much attention to Oh, it was very bold.
When him and Emily Blunt came out, I was like,
are we doing Jungle Cruise too? Yes? I didn't. It
didn't strike me as anything special. I thought Hong Chow
looked beautiful and her pink dress. I liked Michael B.
Jordan and Jonathan Majors. I'm like sun slick looking black suits.
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They had a cool moment when they came out and
presented cinematography that had like a really old camera on stage.
The nerd inside of me was like, cool, two of
my favorite actors talking about cameras. This is awesome. Yeah.
I loved all of the dress. As Angela Bassett, I
don't think anyone there weren't any looks that I was like, huh,
it's strange, Like I felt like everyone really hit the mark.
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But I didn't pay that much attention to like men's fashion,
because it's how many different variations of a suit. It's
pretty Yeah, it's pretty pretty normal all the time, everywhere,
all the once, everything everywhere. I don't think there were
that many snubs as far as who won. I felt
like throughout the entire night the underdogs won, and it
showed in the speeches, it showed in all the post
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show stuff that we watched, and just looking at the list,
I don't feel like there's a standout snub to me,
aside from the in memorium for getting Paul Sorbino, which
was interesting to me because they showed ray Leota who
died last year, and Paul Sorbino died around the same
time as he did. They were both in Good Fellas.
I thought maybe they would put him together, maybe they
would just put up a still a Good Fellas, And
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they didn't put him in there. And that was one
that I didn't even had to go to the internet
and see, like, oh, who did they not put in there?
Because they always do that. That was one that stuck
out to me. I was like, they died around the
same time. He wasn't in there. And I know that's
a hard job to do of including everybody who's even
been in any kind of movie, any kind of director
or seene writer. I feel like that. I feel like
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if it were my job, I would go through every
single actor, like I don't know if they do that
on purpose. So people post about it online, but that
doesn't seem in good taste because then the families get mad.
Yeah I did see Miras Orvino and her mom were
upset today. Yeah. I almost feel like that's a segment
that should get rid of or really really double check
that because it seems likely only bad things come out
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of it. I almost feel like it needs to just
be like a running thing at the end during the credits,
Like I know they like to give it the moment,
but I then, yeah, I feel like somebody always gets
forgotten and that's all people are watching for. It so sad.
It is sad. It makes me so sad, like the
whole time, and they feel like they feel the nicest
pictures and everyone looks so happy, and I know a
lot of them are older and so it's probably natural causes,
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but like so sad, like just like smiling pictures and
I'm like, oh, it's cool to see them be remembered.
But then you're like, what happened to Herbert? Yeah he
looks so happy? No, I literally, Yeah, I was a
very emotional night watching the Oscars and just needed a
box of Kleenex next to me. So aside from all
of the winners, I felt it was a pretty good show.
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I feel like it was more catered to the hardcore
movie fan. I wasn't bored for three and a half
hours like I normally am. I wasn't either. I know though,
that I have a different view on the Oscars, so
I feel that a casual viewer probably didn't find it
that entertaining that there weren't a whole lot of music
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performances there were throughout the show. I don't ever watch
the Oscars to be entertained. Yeah, I don't really watch
them for that. Like Lady Gaga was cool. I was
gonna say, I don't think anyone's really watched for a
moment since Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga did Shallow. I
think that was like the last time people were like
really got to see that performance and it was really
just so then they could be like, can't you see
they love each other? Look at the looks in their eyes.
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So yeah, I don't watch it to be like this
was a great award show. There were so many great moments.
I just want to see people win. I just want
to see good films come out on top, and that's
where I find my entertainment. I know people always ripped
the ratings to shreds. They ripped the Oscars to shreds,
saying they're out of touch. But I feel like if
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you watch all, if not most, of these movies, you
had a good time watching the Oscars. Maybe I'm wrong,
but I thought it was a really entertaining show because
it didn't really go over the top of trying to
get a bunch of people's attention. And maybe since what
happened last year, they were trying to scale it back
a little bit and just like, all right, let's just
put on a good show, let's hand out the awards,
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and let's get out of here. I also feel like
Will Smith winning that kind of changed like the popular
A lister, Yeah, winning a lot of things. Yeah, maybe
that was had some influence on it, like she would
really be giving it to these people. Oh yeah, that
was such about it. I keep thinking about that moment
like a year later, and I haven't forgotten it. Well,
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we also watched the Chris Rock special where yeah, right
before that's so I feel like that's been fresh in
my brain. And then how about Tom Cruise and James
Cameron not showing up? I thought the joke they made
was funny about the people who wanted everyone to go
back to the theater didn't come to the theater tonight. Yeah,
but they're so I guess maybe in my head they
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were thinking, we're not gonna win. Why go I mean, yeah,
I don't think Tom Cruise Love's award shows other than
to say, like off the cuff things on the red carpet,
because I think this year we saw big blockbusters get
nominated Elvis Top Gun even after a Black Panther in there,
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and everybody's been saying you should include those movies so
that more people care about them. I don't really feel
like it had an effect, maybe because they ended up
not winning, but I don't feel that as big of
an impact that Top Gun did have on getting people
back into the theater that those people were watching the Oscars.
I just don't think that translation is going to happen.
Just because you nominate a movie that made a lot
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of money is going to translate into viewers at the Oscars.
Even though even I thought, you know, you should give
the highest grossing movie a slot in the Best Picture
no matter what automatically, But after last night, I don't
think that's really going to change anything. I don't think
that'll change the landscape. So I was good with it.
Anything else you wanted to mention about the night, No,
I just I loved it, Like I woke up this
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morning still thinking about the winds, and like the amazing speeches,
and just like the joy that seeing the underdogs win
ithou made me so happy, Like it genuinely I rooted
for them, and I was like, I don't know these people.
I don't normally get this like emotional over a celebrity
winning an award, but you could see how much it
meant to them. And I think we all have had
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those moments in life for like we have something that
really means a lot to us happen, and so I
think it was like feeling those emotions too, and then
the shout out to like their parents like yeah, the
mom's watching at home. Yes, like that just oh it
really got me. It did humanize them a little bit.
I always viewed just celebrities winning awards is like, h
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just a bunch of rich people hanging out awards that
mean nothing to other rich people. But seeing those people
win last night change that. And I think because they
aren't like huge A listers yeah, like they are. Yeah,
it's their either their first role in a long time
or their first big role, and so I think seeing
them win, it wasn't like, oh Brad Pick got another Oscar,
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Tom Cruise James Cameron, Yeah, wasn't the one the usual roster.
The nerds won. The Nerds did win. Yeah, a twenty four.
There you go. The nerds won with some original ideas.
So we are inspired. That is our recap of the Oscars.
I hope you were inspired. If you're wondering where the
normal episode is, I did do one. It's right behind
(24:39):
on the feed. I did the top ten Scariest horror
mass of all time. I did my review of Scream six,
and I've talked about the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie,
so there is a new episode as well. We just
wanted to do a bonus episode to talk about the Oscars.
Thank you for listening, and until next time, go out
and watch good movies and I let's talk to you.
Stay with me later
Welcome to our Oscar Recap twenty twenty three edition. We'll
be talking about snobs, We'll be talking about surprises, We'll
be talking about our favorite moments. I'm joined by my
wife and co host Kelsey. How are you. I'm great.
I'm excited to talk about this. Let's get right into it.
Your favorite moment from the Oscars easily within like the
first few minutes. It was keihoy kwon winning Best Supporting Actor.
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I cried, you did? You got very emotional crowd, the
entire Oscars. I love that moment. Here is that clip
from last night. My mom is eighty four years old
and she's at home watching Mom. I just want an Oscar.
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I'm gonna play the whole thing. I love it. My
Jurney started on a boat. I spent a year in
a refugee cap and somehow I ended up here on
Hollywood's biggest stage. They say stories like this only happened
(01:04):
in the movies. I cannot believe it's happening to me.
This is the American dreaming. Even just listening to it again,
it makes me so emotional. The American dream, the definition
of it. I didn't know all that about him and
seeing him deliver that speech and in that moment, to
go from not acting at all after being a childhood
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actor and now being there, not only being nominated, but winning,
freaking winning an Oscar. I think that's what made that
whole night so inspiring, seeing people win for the very
first time. He is so easy to root for. He
seems like the most genuine person and just like his joy,
Like you could even see the prisoners were tearing up
(01:48):
before they even announced that it was him, because everyone
was rooting for him. And I watched a clip today
of him like bouncing into the press room with like
holding his Oscar up high, and oh yeah, it made
me tear up, and I'm just so excited for him.
I think sometimes I get a little bit jaded with awards,
even though as much as I love the Oscars, it
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just seems that in previous years it's a popularity contest,
who is the coolest, hottest actor They're going to win
the award. And I really felt like this year was
a celebration of the underdog and a celebration of just
raw performance, just really great performances. I felt like this
year's Oscars I enjoyed the most that I have in
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a long time, because it was actually a celebration of
movies and what they are and it's art rather than
the most popular person or movie winning. And you know,
there were still some popular movies nominated Elvis Top Gun,
but like the ones that won were the ones that
had a really unique approach to storytelling. And that shows
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with how many wins, everything everywhere, all at once received
seven sweet. It was like every time they got called
up they were like, oh no, we have to go
up there again. I wasn't expecting the seven wins out
of the eleven nominations. This movie is now one of
the most I think, if not the most awarded movie
of all time, which is crazy. And I remember when
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this movie came out, I was telling everybody about it. Yeah,
we still need to watch it again because it's been
probably a year since we saw it. Yeah, probably close
to a year. So I need to see it again
to appreciate it even more. My favorite moment of the night,
can you guess it? Yeah? Probably the other one that
I cried at Brendan Frasier winning for Best Actor. Here's
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this speech. I started in this business thirty years ago,
and things they didn't come easily to me, But there
was a facility that I didn't appreciate at the time
until it stopped. And I just want to say thank
you for this acknowledgement because it couldn't be done without
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my cast Let's go winning his first Oscar. It was incredible,
Still a travesty to me that The Whale wasn't nominated
for Best Picture, but even more so than what it
would have meant to me for that movie to win,
seeing him win, seeing how emotional he is, feeling like
he is a little bit of his character Charlie, and
just how much everybody, out of all the winners, rooted
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for each other. Yeah, I know a lot of it
was everything everywhere, all at once, rooting for their cast mates.
But I felt like, maybe because it was an a
twenty four connection with Brendan Frasier, Jamie Lee Curtis, everybody
just had this like yes, you're up there winning, just
the great moments and again just like Brendan Frasier just
seems like a solid guy and like you're so excited
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for the underdog, like he hasn't had a big role
in years. Yeah, this is this comeback. And just seeing
him talk too, I just like the way like he
seems so genuine, seems so nice, seems so just appreciative
of his career. Being back now, so I can't wait
to see what he does next. But now knowing that
he is an Academy Award winner, like that just changes
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his life. And I think that's what I saw throughout
the night of how awards can actually change somebody's life,
That validation of something you've worked for your entire life.
At some point people told you you would never achieve this.
You are now there on the biggest stage winning this honor.
So I think after this Oscars, I start to view
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the whole winning process a little bit different. I hope too,
than it means that we see some of these amazing
winners in more movies. Yeah, going forward, Yeah, getting being
able to get different roles, I mean, yeah, that adds
a lot to your resume. That makes your red goo up.
Winning an Oscar, I will say. The other I watched
a lot of TikTok clips about the Oscars today. The
other one that I loved was Brendan Frasier. It's all
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the press room ones that you don't get to see. Yeah,
he got a standing ovation from the entire press when
he walked in and he was just so emotional, And
it's just those moments of like genuine you can tell
how much it means to someone and it's not just
another trophy on a shelf, like if they feel as
if their craft is being recognized for all the hard
work they put into it. And I mean even though
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they did a lot of the cosmetic changes for Brendan
Fraser with CGI which they want to award for they did,
I will say I think he had to dig deep
down emotionally to play that character. To put yourself in
that headspace, like you have to really go there. It's
as much I feel like as a transformation as like
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Christian Bale or help me on who else has changed
their body for like Daniel de Lewis, Yes, like any
of those, I think going on the opposite spectrum and
like having to play someone struggling with morbid obesity and
to get in that mindset was probably very challenging. Yeah,
it was interesting how they explained how they did the
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makeup that they wanted it to. They wanted him still
have control over his facial features to show expression that
something you don't think about. It's cool but now those
were our favorite moments. We're going to run through now
all of the winners and we'll talk about some surprises
and some snubs as we go along through these. But
obviously the big winner was everything everywhere, all at once.
Took it home for Best Picture. And then when they won,
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Keihoy Kon and Harrison Ford reunited the cutest hug. I
just wanted to bottle that moment up. It was so sweet. Yeah,
that's side by side of them from last night and
then them from back in the day on Indiana Jones
and it's funny. I saw an interview where Harrison Ford
referred to him like still as a kid, and he's like, oh,
he's not a kid. Yeah. It's just crazy the relationship
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they had. I've seen like all these pictures of him
with you know, directors throughout the years of like him
and Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. It's just crazy to
go from that and now here you are, like it
surely is inspiring that anything can happen if you don't
give up on your dream. But that is the winner
for Best Picture. Best Actor, of course, went to Brendan
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Frasier in the Whale Best Actress went to Michelle Yo
from everything everywhere, all at once, I had heard a win.
We did note that was like has to be awkward
in the first like millisecond of hearing that, because Williams
was also nominated, So it's like you hear Michelle and
then you're like that one like Middlesecond, your brand isn't me,
isn't me? Isn't men? Fifty a winner right now? Yeah,
that was cool to see her win. Here is her
(08:10):
speech from last night. For all the little boys and
girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a
beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that dreams
dream big, and dreams do come true. And ladies, don't
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let anybody tell you you ever posture prime great quote
from her in her speech. Loved her speech. And then
going down the list again Best Actor in a Supporting Girl,
I thought it was gonna go to Brendan Gleeson. I
think the most surprising thing out of all of the
awards of the night is how the Banshees of Minasharan
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won zero awards with all the nominations. I just felt
like that was one that the Academy would vote on,
but I was really glad to see Keyhoy kuanwin. Yeah,
I think definitely deserved it. I just when we were
talking about that, I could envision it in my head,
but I just thought the way they were going to
vote would be for Banshees of Innishar and Brendan Gleason.
I mean, I would have loved to hear Brendan Gleason
(09:13):
do a speech because I just love the Irish accent.
They talked about that a lot throughout the night. My
favorite part, well my favorite part, but I did like
when they brought out the Donkey, the brought out Jenny,
they brought out the Donkey. Best Actress in a Supporting
role went to Jamie Lee Curtis, winning her very first Oscar.
Here is her speech from last night. And my mother
and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories.
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I just want an Oscar. I think she was just
very kind of like everybody else, shocked by the fact
that she won. But she's been one who has been
so supportive of all of her co stars. She's the
one yelling in the crowd and anybody else goes up
there and wins, And I felt in that moment was
her just kind of reflecting on like everything in her career,
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her parents, and then finally winning an Oscar in the
same year that she put out one of the worst
movies of the year, Halloween Ends, So I thought that
was cool for her. I also didn't envision her to win.
I thought Angela Bassett would have won for Black Panther.
I did. I was rooting for Angela Bassett, but everything
everywhere all at once coming in with the sweep. Because
(10:22):
for Best Director, the Daniels one, I had them to
win as well. They're great directors, and I think the
best thing out of that is kind of what you
were saying earlier, is now they have the golden ticket
to make whatever they want, which they've already been doing
in their career, but after dominating the Oscars, they can
take that and say, we have this idea, it's going
to work because it's worked in the past. Give us
(10:44):
all the money. Yeah, and now everybody's gonna start ripping
them off too. But that comes with the territory. But
if you're not them, probably can't be executed as well.
It's true, and it also proves that just because you
have a lot of money and a big budget in
a movie that doesn't mean it's going to be successful.
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness cost over two
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hundred million dollars to make everything everywhere, all at once,
cost twenty million dollars to make, or maybe twenty five
million dollars, a way smaller budget, but it tore the
roof of what the multiverse is. So that just proves
to you all you need is the creativity, the drive
to do it, and the execution of your ideas, and
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you can win an Oscar. And I'm glad that when
we look back on twenty twenty three, this will be
the movie that represents the entire year. For animated feature,
the winner went to Garmo de Toro's Pinocchio. I had
that one to win. I felt that was an easy
win just because of the animation style, just because of
Gearmo Dotorro. So I didn't feel like that was the
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hardest pick to win. Animation is always a tough category
because you'll have a really big, intricate movie like Pinocchio,
but then you'll have like Puss in Boots and Turning
Red and so it's like, I don't really know where
this is going to go. But I ssum they're gonna
go with the more artsy film. Cinematography went to All
Quiet on the Western Front, which they took homeb Basically
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every technical award they won like four right, yeah, which
it seemed like they were winning a lot of a
row yeah, which it made it seem like they were dominating,
But they just won for everything technical. They were at
four and four with everything everywhere, and so I think
that's why it felt like a sweep as well, because
it was just like the two of them dominated, getting
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up again and again and again, but when it came
to the big categories, it was all everything everywhere. Original
Song went to not To not To from R R R.
I enjoyed their song performance. It was great, it was fun.
And then although I really did like Rihanna performing Lift
Me Up, which is the song I picked a win
both great songs. Who doesn't enjoy a Rihanna performance? For
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Original Score, it also went to All Quiet on the
Western Front. I had the fable Men's to win. The
Fable Men's, which I had picked a win, did not
win a single award, which was surprising to me and
also not surprising to me because I don't really think
that was Steven Spielberg's best movie that he's done. I
do think Michelle Williams her nomination was rightfully deserved. She's
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awesome in that I would not have flinched if she
would have won. And then the last one that we
did in our predictions episode was for makeup and Hairstyling,
which I had. Elvis did not ended up going to
the Whale, which was probably the better pick. Elvis did
not end up picking up any awards either, which was
kind of a relief I did not want. Mainly I
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did not want Austin Butler to win for Best Actor.
I screamed so loud, one because I was happy for
Britain Fraser, but two that it wasn't Austin Butler, but
mostly that it was for Brittain Fraser, but mostly that
Austin Butler. No, I'm just kidding, Mostly that I just
didn't want him to win. I just felt like that
role just playing somebody iconic doesn't translate always into winning
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an award, and I'm kind of over the music biopic genre,
so we've just like crammed him. In the past few years,
there's been a lot. There's been a lot of it
and I've just found as people were hyping that movie up,
saying that she went for Best Picture, nothing about its
screen best Picture. I think in two years we'll forget
about that Elvis movie. We'll move on from it. So
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bold take. I like these movies to be representative. That's
what I like to do. I like to go back
in the years, well one Best Picture, Oh yeah, that
was a good one. To go back and watch that
and feel like that was what was going on in
the world at that time. The best creative minds in film,
that is what they made. That is the choice. Not
to say they haven't picked wrong some years, but I
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feel like usually it's a pretty good job I will give.
Can I give an honorable mention to my other favorite
moment of the night Best Adapted Screenplay going to Women Talking. Yeah,
that was a good moment. I was so excited. I
accidentally ruined it for a friend whose TV was lagging
a little bit. That's a live show, no, but I
was like, yeah to this winning and she was like,
I'm behind snoops, But I loved that movie. Thought that
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award was so well deserved. Also, her speech iconic when
she said glad that people weren't offended by the words
of women and talking next to each other. But when
it came to the Awards show, just on its own,
how entertaining do you feel like? It was so many
Will Smith jokes. It was so many Will Smith jokes.
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When we go back to the monologue, I would probably
rate it like a B minus And it was just
Will Smith. I know they had to go at it.
If they didn't make one, people will be like, hey,
they didn't even bring it up. So I can see
it from the writing standpoint of wanting to include it.
And it's also kind of being the low hanging fruit,
like you just make a joke about that, everybody will laugh.
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But I felt like the monologue dragged a little bit,
and I like Jimmy Kimmel, it was just everything was
so focused on making a big deal about the slap
and the security. It was just I was kind of
over it. And they did it almost every single time
he was on screen, almost every single time yep. And
the only one I actually thought was funny it was
at the very end, whenever he walks off the stage
(16:01):
number of oscars without the any change of the number,
I was like, Okay, that's funny, that's like cartoon humor. Yeah.
Aside from that, I was a little bit tired of it,
so I felt like that made it a little bit
less enjoyable. They didn't really have a lot of bits
that they did. The only memorable one for me was
Cocaine Bear, which was funny. Yeah, him coming out, him
going out into the crowd. But I didn't really feel
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like they went for that viral Oscar moment. I just
felt like there were so many wholesome moments, like when
the winners of was it the live action short film
the Irish could buy? Oh yeah, they took the moment.
They were like, for the rest of our speech, we'd
love for everyone to sing happy Birthday. Like that was
so cool. I felt like it was a very it's
(16:43):
very wholesome. Really warmed my heart. It just felt like
a bunch of famous people hanging out almost being as
normally as you can be being that famous. Yeah. My
other favorite part was the fashion. I know this isn't
a fashion podcast, but I love the Oscars fashion. Who
is your favorite favorite outfit? Oh, Kara day Lavine's red
dress was amazing. Rihanna Mindy Kaling looked great. How do
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you feel about the rocks pinkish looking suit. I didn't
pay that much attention to Oh, it was very bold.
When him and Emily Blunt came out, I was like,
are we doing Jungle Cruise too? Yes? I didn't. It
didn't strike me as anything special. I thought Hong Chow
looked beautiful and her pink dress. I liked Michael B.
Jordan and Jonathan Majors. I'm like sun slick looking black suits.
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They had a cool moment when they came out and
presented cinematography that had like a really old camera on stage.
The nerd inside of me was like, cool, two of
my favorite actors talking about cameras. This is awesome. Yeah.
I loved all of the dress. As Angela Bassett, I
don't think anyone there weren't any looks that I was like, huh,
it's strange, Like I felt like everyone really hit the mark.
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But I didn't pay that much attention to like men's fashion,
because it's how many different variations of a suit. It's
pretty Yeah, it's pretty pretty normal all the time, everywhere,
all the once, everything everywhere. I don't think there were
that many snubs as far as who won. I felt
like throughout the entire night the underdogs won, and it
showed in the speeches, it showed in all the post
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show stuff that we watched, and just looking at the list,
I don't feel like there's a standout snub to me,
aside from the in memorium for getting Paul Sorbino, which
was interesting to me because they showed ray Leota who
died last year, and Paul Sorbino died around the same
time as he did. They were both in Good Fellas.
I thought maybe they would put him together, maybe they
would just put up a still a Good Fellas, And
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they didn't put him in there. And that was one
that I didn't even had to go to the internet
and see, like, oh, who did they not put in there?
Because they always do that. That was one that stuck
out to me. I was like, they died around the
same time. He wasn't in there. And I know that's
a hard job to do of including everybody who's even
been in any kind of movie, any kind of director
or seene writer. I feel like that. I feel like
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if it were my job, I would go through every
single actor, like I don't know if they do that
on purpose. So people post about it online, but that
doesn't seem in good taste because then the families get mad.
Yeah I did see Miras Orvino and her mom were
upset today. Yeah. I almost feel like that's a segment
that should get rid of or really really double check
that because it seems likely only bad things come out
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of it. I almost feel like it needs to just
be like a running thing at the end during the credits,
Like I know they like to give it the moment,
but I then, yeah, I feel like somebody always gets
forgotten and that's all people are watching for. It so sad.
It is sad. It makes me so sad, like the
whole time, and they feel like they feel the nicest
pictures and everyone looks so happy, and I know a
lot of them are older and so it's probably natural causes,
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but like so sad, like just like smiling pictures and
I'm like, oh, it's cool to see them be remembered.
But then you're like, what happened to Herbert? Yeah he
looks so happy? No, I literally, Yeah, I was a
very emotional night watching the Oscars and just needed a
box of Kleenex next to me. So aside from all
of the winners, I felt it was a pretty good show.
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I feel like it was more catered to the hardcore
movie fan. I wasn't bored for three and a half
hours like I normally am. I wasn't either. I know though,
that I have a different view on the Oscars, so
I feel that a casual viewer probably didn't find it
that entertaining that there weren't a whole lot of music
(20:23):
performances there were throughout the show. I don't ever watch
the Oscars to be entertained. Yeah, I don't really watch
them for that. Like Lady Gaga was cool. I was
gonna say, I don't think anyone's really watched for a
moment since Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga did Shallow. I
think that was like the last time people were like
really got to see that performance and it was really
just so then they could be like, can't you see
they love each other? Look at the looks in their eyes.
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So yeah, I don't watch it to be like this
was a great award show. There were so many great moments.
I just want to see people win. I just want
to see good films come out on top, and that's
where I find my entertainment. I know people always ripped
the ratings to shreds. They ripped the Oscars to shreds,
saying they're out of touch. But I feel like if
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you watch all, if not most, of these movies, you
had a good time watching the Oscars. Maybe I'm wrong,
but I thought it was a really entertaining show because
it didn't really go over the top of trying to
get a bunch of people's attention. And maybe since what
happened last year, they were trying to scale it back
a little bit and just like, all right, let's just
put on a good show, let's hand out the awards,
(21:27):
and let's get out of here. I also feel like
Will Smith winning that kind of changed like the popular
A lister, Yeah, winning a lot of things. Yeah, maybe
that was had some influence on it, like she would
really be giving it to these people. Oh yeah, that
was such about it. I keep thinking about that moment
like a year later, and I haven't forgotten it. Well,
(21:49):
we also watched the Chris Rock special where yeah, right
before that's so I feel like that's been fresh in
my brain. And then how about Tom Cruise and James
Cameron not showing up? I thought the joke they made
was funny about the people who wanted everyone to go
back to the theater didn't come to the theater tonight. Yeah,
but they're so I guess maybe in my head they
(22:10):
were thinking, we're not gonna win. Why go I mean, yeah,
I don't think Tom Cruise Love's award shows other than
to say, like off the cuff things on the red carpet,
because I think this year we saw big blockbusters get
nominated Elvis Top Gun even after a Black Panther in there,
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and everybody's been saying you should include those movies so
that more people care about them. I don't really feel
like it had an effect, maybe because they ended up
not winning, but I don't feel that as big of
an impact that Top Gun did have on getting people
back into the theater that those people were watching the Oscars.
I just don't think that translation is going to happen.
Just because you nominate a movie that made a lot
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of money is going to translate into viewers at the Oscars.
Even though even I thought, you know, you should give
the highest grossing movie a slot in the Best Picture
no matter what automatically, But after last night, I don't
think that's really going to change anything. I don't think
that'll change the landscape. So I was good with it.
Anything else you wanted to mention about the night, No,
I just I loved it, Like I woke up this
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morning still thinking about the winds, and like the amazing speeches,
and just like the joy that seeing the underdogs win
ithou made me so happy, Like it genuinely I rooted
for them, and I was like, I don't know these people.
I don't normally get this like emotional over a celebrity
winning an award, but you could see how much it
meant to them. And I think we all have had
(23:34):
those moments in life for like we have something that
really means a lot to us happen, and so I
think it was like feeling those emotions too, and then
the shout out to like their parents like yeah, the
mom's watching at home. Yes, like that just oh it
really got me. It did humanize them a little bit.
I always viewed just celebrities winning awards is like, h
(23:54):
just a bunch of rich people hanging out awards that
mean nothing to other rich people. But seeing those people
win last night change that. And I think because they
aren't like huge A listers yeah, like they are. Yeah,
it's their either their first role in a long time
or their first big role, and so I think seeing
them win, it wasn't like, oh Brad Pick got another Oscar,
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Tom Cruise James Cameron, Yeah, wasn't the one the usual roster.
The nerds won. The Nerds did win. Yeah, a twenty four.
There you go. The nerds won with some original ideas.
So we are inspired. That is our recap of the Oscars.
I hope you were inspired. If you're wondering where the
normal episode is, I did do one. It's right behind
(24:39):
on the feed. I did the top ten Scariest horror
mass of all time. I did my review of Scream six,
and I've talked about the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie,
so there is a new episode as well. We just
wanted to do a bonus episode to talk about the Oscars.
Thank you for listening, and until next time, go out
and watch good movies and I let's talk to you.
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