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Spotlight on the Oscars: Discussing This Year's Best Picture Nominees
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Step into the world of glitz and glamour as we unravel the highlights from this year's Academy Awards. With a blend of laughter and insightful conversation, we discuss the films that stole the show, the contenders that left us surprised, and the implications of streaming services on the cinematic experience. From Oscar-winning moments to favorite performances, we share personal stories and entertaining anecdotes while pondering the landscape of modern film as it navigates the challenge of competition from home streaming platforms.
Join us as we speak with Amy's sister Ann, a passionate cinephile who shares her unique Oscar preparation rituals, providing listeners with a captivating glimpse into the dedication that goes into watching all nominated films. The episode sparks discussion around voting processes, artistic merit, and the comparisons between independent cinema and blockbuster hits. We unpack the themes of connection within cinema, reflecting on the communal experience that a movie theater offers against the convenience of home viewings.
Whether you cheered for the winners or were shocked by the outcomes, this engaging discussion invites you to reflect on your cinematic preferences and choices. Join the conversation and let us know which films spoke to you this award season. Subscribe, share your favorite movie moments, and help keep the magic of cinema alive!
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Intro and Weekend Recap
Speaker 1All right, look I got that. Wow, who wants some heads up right now? We got that. Turn it up loud. I know you're wondering how I got that. Wow, here I go, here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need a.
Speaker 2Well, good morning, good afternoon, Good evening. Get me to the top, I don't need a good. The week is moving along quickly. We had a massive snowstorm today. Yes, did you too, stacy. Yes, we did.
The Oscars: Anticipation and Preparations
Speaker 3Oh my gosh, winter is back. I was so thrilled that my days off schedule has switched this week so I did not have to work today, so I didn't have to go anywhere in the snowstorm. Oh, that's so nice. Yeah, yes, I did work, but it was jammies and in my living room time. So there you go, that's the best.
Speaker 4That's a good day yeah.
Speaker 3Awesome.
Speaker 4It's supposed to be like 70 here next Tuesday. How does it do that Go from 60 to snowy blizzard, to 70. It's March.
Speaker 3Yeah it is yeah that is, I changed out of my pajamas and put on something appropriate for our topic tonight. You're very sparkly.
Speaker 2You are very sparkly today. Yeah, tonight we have a fun, fun, fun topic to talk about. Tonight we are. So it's March and one of the iconic things that happens in March, in addition to all of the basketball, is the Oscars, oscars or the Oscars. So and this is one of those things that I remember in years past, I would make sure I would catch every single movie. I couldn't wait for the Oscars. I would, you know, want to watch it from a production standpoint, the outfits and who is there and all of that. And I did watch it. I did watch it on Sunday night, but I have I am embarrassed to say that I've only seen two of the Oscar winning movies.
Speaker 3You got me beat. I saw one.
Speaker 5You've seen two One of the.
Speaker 3I think it did win an award, but I saw one. Okay, we came up with a solution for this. Yes, yep.
Speaker 2We're calling in a lifeline. Yep, you guys have heard us talk about this topic. Before you've got we have these. We amy calls them lifelines. Um, you've got these experts in your circle that you know that if you have a question about something specific, you know exactly who to go to. Who are we going to go to today, amy, we're going to my sister Ann.
Speaker 3Yay, Ann, yes, let's bring her out. Bring her in Bringing her, in Bringing her out, bringing her in. Hi Hello.
Speaker 5Ann. Hey, how are you? We're good, great Good.
Speaker 3So Ann's here to help us, because this is ann and her husband steve thing. This is their thing. You guys watch a lot of movies, but talk to us about your oscar prep. When did this start? How did you get you know? How did you decide this was going to be on your agenda of things to do?
Speaker 5so in 2021, uh, a couple of days before the oscars, we realized we could stream all of the movies. So, uh, we decided on the friday night, uh, the all day, saturday, and the entire Sunday before the show we were going to watch all of the movies that we had not gone to a movie theater or already seen. So this year was the fifth year that we have, either, well, pretty much just checked off any that we haven't seen by streaming them. And this year we have plans on Friday nights and on Saturday afternoon, so we had to start earlier in the week, but normally we we won't take any plans with anybody on the two or three days prior so that we can watch them and then consider what it is that we would, what we think is going to win, and what one that we would want to win both of those. So I I have to just say I'm kind of regretting that I put this on my instagram, because now I'm an expert of it.
Speaker 5Well, we're glad that you did, but I did watch all but one okay, which which one did you not watch?
Speaker 5I watched, we did not watch. I'm Still here. That's the one that did not come to the movie theater in our area, okay, and also was not available to stream before Sunday night. Okay, it was like a pre-order on one of the, and I tried as hard as I could to figure out where it was, where, where we could access it, but we could. So I saw nine of the ten okay, oh my gosh, yeah, wow okay, so.
Speaker 2so a Nora was the big winner of the night, all right, so let's talk about that one. None of us saw that one. So one of the things that I always think about when I'm watching these award shows is are there specific criteria? And, anne, I don't expect you to know this. I don't know how the Academy actually what the criteria are and how they make the decision, but when you watch movies like this and question for Stacey and Amy too, what is it that makes you move that movie to the top of the list and say that is the best of the best. What are the qualities?
Speaker 4they. They seem to all be pretty original ideas, in my opinion, something new and different that hasn't been done. You know what I mean. Okay, um, I'm sure that's not a criteria, but that's what they seem like. A lot of them seem to be very artsy too, you know. Maybe not as much of I don't know. You know entertainment value maybe? Or action? You know the types that are, you know, more popular?
Speaker 3yeah. So less, less commercial and more, um, I don't know what, art house. Yeah, I don't know, none of these are really art house, I don't know that that's the right term for them, but, um, you know, wicked would be commercial. Yes, and then the other end I I'm Still here, which nobody can find. Yeah, so somewhere on that thing I did not watch Enora, but the girl who won for that was in my favorite series that I gave out as a shout out to watch Better Things. I love that actress she was the oldest daughter. Love that actress in that, in that other series that I was saying that everybody should watch, that I really enjoyed.
Speaker 5Okay, so give us the scoop and yeah, yeah, I'll play that in just a second, but what I think is that some of the way that the movies rise to the top in terms of how the academy works, vote for them, is I think that they um, so I think these movies are are like politically trying to get, get nominated, so they have these campaigns right, they want everyone to know about it.
Exploring Oscar
Speaker 5That's a voting member, but I think that the voting members maybe um rank 10 movies that they think are the 10 um movies that should be nominated for best picture, and then all of those are put together to to determine what are the official 10. That's what I think is how they, how they do it, and and you guys remember that it was um, I think it was like around 2010 or 2009 that it went from five best picture nominations to ten. So um, it's a lot. It's a lot and it's a big widespread now, like what you're talking about. So, um, like dune two is that was like a blockbuster. Wicked would be a blockbuster, but some of would be a blockbuster, but some of them like I'm Still here, I think was actually nominated in the foreign language category too.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 5I'm not sure, but I was thinking maybe that was true. I don't remember that on Sunday night Because I didn't see it. I was a little less. It wasn't on my mind, I wasn't thinking about where it was fitting into the whole evening. Okay, so, anora, have you read nothing about Anora? You have not heard any commentary that's going on or anything before it. Are you really not?
Speaker 4Well, one of the big things is that I think a lot of people were surprised that she won best actress over demi moore, because demi moore has won all the other awards.
Speaker 5You know, like the, I don't, I don't know yeah, um, and I watch all of those shows too. I don't know what my problem is, but I'm just kind of into it, um. So, anora, when we watch we streamed that, we streamed that at our house, that was one we watched here and um, so. So half of it is a little bit of a familiar story to you, which is that a stripper with, in the case of this movie, a sex worker, um, the the business is a strip club that she works at, and um that she is asked to spend more time with the customer, uh, after you know, initially meeting him on the job, and she is paid to spend an extended period of time with him, and he's a woman, vibe, yeah, so, but I just want to clarify it. They are.
Speaker 5This was a. This was a pretty explicit and, um, somewhat shocking first half of the movie. Both my husband and I were like well, this would be awkward at a movie theater because it was a lot of nudity, uh, a lot of, I mean it. Just it was. It was the business of, of what her is, and she was very good at it. So she ends up, she meets a Russian oligarch son, and he is 21 years old and he is spending one more week in the United States before he has to go home to Russia to work for dad in his big company and and he thinks he wants to have fun and and she is game. She's going to pay her a lot of money to be, you know, to run around and and, you know, have a social life that whole week and she's with all of his friends and it's great fun and so forth. And then in the middle of the movie it turns into a and it gets very dark and um, it's uh kind of has a mob sort of feeling to it.
Speaker 5The second half of the movie when when the family finds out um, I don't know how much of it you want me to spoil. Should I spoil it? They do you want to know or not, like do you want to know what happens in the middle? That turns things, or do you not want to know?
Speaker 2I kind of don't want to know.
Speaker 5I think I want to watch it now.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2Because the sex worker.
Speaker 3Oligarch really pulled you in.
Speaker 5Wow, here's why it's nice for you If you had a child living at your house, even an adult one. I'm not sure how comfortable you would be with the explicit nature of the first half of the movie.
Speaker 4okay, yeah, good to know so she was pretty amazing.
Speaker 5Um I I didn't remember that she was in another show, uh, and found that out later. But listening to her at her acceptance speech, I I thought, yep, she really was acting and she really did do a great job with that character Cool. I would not this. I would never have picked that. This was going to win, though.
Speaker 5And another thing that I kind of as I was kind of being shocked by this, something that they said that night but then also I kind of became more aware of is that this was a I think they said like $6 million budget and 40 people, so in many ways just a stark contrast to something like Wicked and probably the amount of money and the number of people that worked on that movie, and so this was kind of an independent film.
Speaker 4And you say you would not have picked it, you wouldn't have guessed it would win. No, would you have guessed that she won for Best Actress?
Speaker 5No, Not necessarily. Yeah, I thought that it would go to Demi Moore just because all the other awards were going to her.
Speaker 1But it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 5She was pretty remarkable in the role. So part of the story felt familiar to me because it had those parallels to sort of like a pretty woman kind of thing and it is a dark romantic comedy. But it's dark and it definitely has a little comedy but it's dark and it definitely has a little more violent of a second half and the beginning was quite explicit Okay.
Speaker 5We know what kind of movie Kitty likes, so there we go. You should watch it. I think that it's um that. I think you would. I think it's worth watching, yeah okay, okay, good, thank you.
Speaker 2So just as a note, some past movies that won best picture, best academy award the godfather, godfather 2, tit Schindler's List, forrest Gump, lord of the Rings, the English Patient I loved the English Patient, I did too Braveheart, I cannot watch that movie. Okay, all right, wonderful. And that one took a total of five awards Best Director, original Screenplay, editing and Best Picture and Actress. Actress yeah, wow, okay, all right. Let's talk a little bit about the brutalist thoughts on this one. And so the brutalist, uh, adrian brody for best actor. I was a little, I was a little turned off by his acceptance speech yeah, I felt like it was a little long.
Speaker 5And, um, yeah, I felt like it was a little long and he didn't really get to the point. Yeah, you know, he kind of just indulged in being able to tell the orchestra to give him more time, right?
Speaker 2So the music started to play and he said no, no, no, no, no, Turn the music off. I'm not done yet. I've been here before.
Speaker 4Yeah, oh, like so, yeah, yeah, oh, so yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 5Right. So we watched the Berger List at home too. We streamed that. That is a three-hour movie.
Speaker 3Oh, that's got to be an at-home movie so you can stop and go to the bathroom and throw the laundry in.
Expert Insight: Conversation with Ann
Speaker 5Yeah, Wow, to me it was a much more typical oscar best picture nomination. This also, I think, is a director who did not go to a film school, who just kind of grew up um learning about the industry. Or maybe he's a child of someone who worked in the industry, I can't quite remember, but that was kind of an interesting story. So adrian brody is a hungarian jewish man who has survived the holocaust. He is now living in new york, or actually maybe it was pennsylvania. It might have been, since it was in the east, it was on the east coast, but it might have been pennsylvania. I knew he's just struggling.
Speaker 5He's an architect, and a successful architect. Before um the holocaust he was trained at. This character uh, lazaro toss, I think is the name of the character was trained at like the um ba house school of um I don't know if it was art or what it was, but as an architect. And so he has to kind of scramble to try and find some work and he ends up designing a library. A son of a very wealthy man has asked him and someone else on a construction team he's doing construction work if they would come and redesign this library in the father's beautiful mansion. But the father doesn't know that they're gonna do it and designs it. It is absolutely gorgeous, kind of it's brutalist, I guess, is a kind of architecture, so a local like.
Speaker 5An example of that that Kitty and Amy might know is the St John's Abbey at St John's University. That is a brutalistic style. Ok, so it's kind of mid-century modern a little bit, but it's also very harsh and so forth. He designs this and then the father comes home and he is so angry and he doesn't appreciate it at all. He just says I'm not going to pay you and he rips them off one side and down the other and then months and months later he comes to find out who designed this for him and what a reputation he had from before the holocaust, and and the buildings are still standing there.
Speaker 5I mean it's a really interesting story. You just have to have a lot of time on your hands and patience and because it is an immigration story and people who have lived through the Holocaust, it's not a light movie at all. But to me it seemed like it was designed to win a Best Picture and it just fell short in some sort of way. I don't know. I thought it was really interesting and I was kind of fascinated by the history of it.
Speaker 4Yeah, which movie would you have picked to win? Which did you like the best?
Speaker 5So which one I liked the best and which one I thought it was gonna win would be different.
Speaker 4But what did?
Speaker 5I think was going to win. I thought Conclave would win. That seemed like a heavy hitter. Isabella Rossellini, ralph Fiennes or Raffaele Fiennes, however you say his name. Ray Fiennes, john Liskeau, stanley Tucci I mean unbelievable actors, a familiar but sort of mysterious setting and a twist at the end that like so and I won't tell you that. But I thought that that one had everything that it kind of needed to win. It win like a typical oscar and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 5It was interesting to me. Um, that was not the one that I necessarily enjoyed the most out of all 10. What did you enjoy the most? Probably Wicked, and I went to the movie theater to see Wicked, but I'm a big fan of the Broadway show and love Cynthia Erivo and thought that you know, as someone who was a big fan of the Broadway show, that it didn't disappoint, other than it is part one of the story. So you have to wait until next November to see part two. So that was a little bit of a bummer, but in turn, you know it, just it was. It made me very happy and I enjoyed it. It was very fun, but I didn't necessarily think that it was even a movie that you would nominate for a best picture.
Speaker 1I mean what do.
Speaker 5I know I'm not trying to like hit people off, it was. It was really done well and a pretty amazing production.
Speaker 3Did that win anything? Yeah, I think they might've won costume.
Speaker 2Costume design yeah.
Speaker 4Cool yeah, cool yeah yeah. And did any of you feel like?
Speaker 2Me, I did not. No, amy did not, I did, I went to it. So Bo and I went to see it in New York many years ago and then, when it was coming out, I said to Bill and Bo, I think the day after Christmas we went to the movie and I just said, you know, we're going, basically, and so of course I look over and Bo's sleeping and you know, and Bill trudged his way through it. But because musicals just aren't their thing I love musicals and I knew that, I knew that I was going to love it because I saw it on stage but I remember getting to the end and thinking we are only halfway through this movie right now. And then, because I'm thinking these guys aren't going to make it, but then it said you know, part two coming.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, somehow I missed. Guys aren't going to make it, um. But then it said you know, part two coming. Yeah, yeah, somehow I missed.
Speaker 2I missed that that was how they were filming, that, that it was going to be in two parts so, yeah, and I I could be wrong on this, but I don't think, I don't think we knew until people started going to the movie to see the movie.
Speaker 2I don't think people knew. I don't remember who said this. It was somebody who was accepting an award and again it was from one of the independent films, a smaller entity, and he just very eloquently made a plea for take your kids to the movie theater. Do you remember this, ann?
Speaker 2I do um, and he. It was really really well done. And it's so true that because bill and I have commented before too it's like nobody goes to movies anymore. We can, and even you so many of these movies you could stream before the awards that it makes me wonder one how movie theaters are even making it. But you know in general what's going to happen to the movie making industry. And he just made this plea for take your kids to the movie theater. We stream everything. There's something beautiful and wholesome and family about going to a movie theater and sitting down in a seat with a bucket of popcorn and watching a movie. I mean, the four of us know what that was when we were younger.
Speaker 2So I was glad that that message was put out out there, and I hope that more people do that.
Speaker 3Um, so what other movies need talking about? What other ones were surprised to you, Anne, or were like eh, not for me. Oh, Emilio, Amelia Perez, that's the one I saw. I did see that.
The Criteria for Best Picture Nominations
Speaker 4Amelia Perez. Amelia Perez, that's the one I saw. I did see that Only because, well, it was free to stream, so I did watch it. But I was interested in the fact that and I can't remember her name Sophia, something, something was nominated for Best Actress actress, and she's trans woman, I believe. So there was a little scuttle with that, that you know. Back to the whole, you know, do we, let you know, biological men be mixed in with women, right? So that was the gist of that, mixed in with women, right? So that was the gist of that. So the actual movie I was entertained. I mean, what did you think, anne? You know it's different. It's a musical, you know, based within a what did they call it? Cartel background, but a musical. So that was interesting. Um, but it was, it was okay. Like I, I always tell people if I stay awake through a whole movie, then I was entertained. You know a lot of stuff, like Dune, for instance, I fell asleep in the middle you know, so I don't know, would you so?
Speaker 5right. So we, we turned on. This is the danger of streaming movies at home. Right, you've got your phone in your hands or you've got your computer, your laptop on your lap and you're you're multitasking. You know there's jokes about that. People always say, well, you want netflix to show you a movie that you can look at your phone while you're watching the movie. Right, what's that category? And so the movie started and it's predominantly in Spanish and it is a musical. So we had the closed caption on and we looked at each other and we're like wait is this all in Spanish and we were like, oh, not really.
Speaker 5We had to put down our devices and look at the TV the whole time. So we jump, we pause it and we go to the assistive technology that exists, which is really great. We flip to what is called English audio, which then overdubs the Spanish in English for you, but I think it might be designed for someone who's like a viewer that is visually impaired. So, in addition to the dubbing it in English, you also hear that Rita walks across the room. Oh, we were like, okay, well, that's not going to work either.
Speaker 5So we made it about 20 minutes into this movie and we were like we're going to give up. Like we can't look at our phones, we've got to stare at the screen, we've got to read the lines, and so I wonder if you know, like I said, this is what I think is the negative part. So the good part about being able to stream at home is when you live in a rural area. Like I said, this is what I think is the negative part. So the good part about being able to stream at home is when you live in a rural area, like I do. We have one movie theater with. There's a couple of movie theaters around us, but really blockbusters are what come to our movie theater.
Speaker 5You don't get these other movies and so this way you can see them. But then the bad part of that is less business for the movie theater, less going to the movie theater, more used to being at home sitting on your phone, on, you know, in your pajamas, on the couch, and so it also is sometimes hard to pay attention because you're folding laundry or you're pausing it for this or you know all these things. So I I think at some point I might go back and revisit this show, but in terms of us being able to power through before the weekend, we were like hitting some different brick walls that we were like we're just going to have to let it go.
Speaker 4You know, yeah, yeah, you really have to read the read the subtitles.
Speaker 5But I think the premise is interesting. So so, from what I understand, Zoe Saldana, who the um best supporting actress yes a lawyer and she's asked by a drug cartel boss to help her fake her death. And then this this man has been transitioning to become a woman for. But so she wants to die as the man cartel boss and then wants to live the rest of her life as a woman. So I think the musical is set around. So I mean, it's a musical of that. Yeah.
Speaker 4Which, to me, that's the strange part about it, because it's a musical, like I said, like you've said, set in a cartel setting with you know.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 4Okay, did I say Zoe Daldana. Yep Going on.
Speaker 5Right, she's a lawyer. Sorry, I should have said her character is a lawyer that's being asked to help facilitate this, yep, sorry.
Speaker 4Okay, and oh, selena Gomez was in it. I liked her character. I'm surprised she wasn't nominated for a supporting actress. Honestly, too, I mean, I thought she did. You know, I liked her character, I don't know.
Speaker 5So yeah, it was interesting, for sure.
Speaker 5So I think she was nominated for a Golden Globe or a SAG. So I think she was recognized in this award season in some way. So I think she was recognized in this award season in some way and I think it was a Golden Globe because I think she actually, well, only Murders in the Building, which she is on that series, ended up getting an award that night. So I think she was nominated in a movie. She was nominated as part of that show, so I kind of remember that. But I didn't watch enough of this movie to be able to weigh in on too much about it. But again I might go back and watch it a different time.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5Did any of you go to A Complete Unknown, which was the Timothée Chalamet Bob Dylan movie?
Speaker 4No, I still want to see that. What did you think of that movie?
Speaker 5Yeah, so I went to the movie theater, so Wicked and A Complete Unknown are the two that we went to the movie theater to see. Steve went to Dune 2 with one of our sons. I didn't go along, but he watched the stream of it with me and I had seen Dune 1. I, I didn't go along but he watched the stream of it with me. So, and I had seen dune one. I just didn't go around the day they went um a complete unknown.
Speaker 5Uh, I went into that movie and I've never really liked bob dylan all that much. I respected him and there are a few songs of his that I like, but overall I didn't, didn't go into it like, oh, I love Bob Dylan, I mean it's cool that there's a tie to Hibbing and a tie to Minnesota. But I left that movie liking him a lot more and feeling more informed about what was going on in music at that time in the country and what was going on with kind of his, what he started out doing and how he wanted to evolve and how much the first group that kind of welcomed him and that he had success with, which was like a folk kind of genre, that they were kind of disappointed that he was changing. But he also was really young. I mean this was like the first four years of his career from being not known at all to him, kind of pivoting out of that folk music. So I left there thinking, oh, I like him a lot more and I'm kind of neither here nor there.
Speaker 5I mean, timothee Chalamet is so talented but he disappeared into Bob Dylan. To me it was really remarkable. And I think he spent many, many years preparing, because I think there was a COVID interruption and so I think he was preparing and they were going to do it before, and then the shutdowns and everything, and then it took a long time for them, which meant he had that, that material and that character to kind of work on it for a long time. So I thought he was really amazing and I think he won, you know, a golden globe or a stag.
Speaker 3so I kind of wondered if he would win for best actor but can we talk about something very trivial about timothy chalamet? What was with the butter suit? Was he sponsored by like land? I don't understand what that outfit was Did it have any bearing on Bob Dylan and the movie.
Speaker 5No, I don't think so. I think he just has a really fun in his mind, a very fun sense of style or his stylist does and he's brave to just go for it and wear something different. Um, I really think, have any of you seen substance?
Speaker 3that's the one that jimmy moore was in no, because that seems really scary and icky to me tell us what the premise is of the movie?
Discussion on Favorite and Least Favorite Films
Speaker 5so she is is like a Jane Fonda aerobics television show star.
Speaker 3And she is her Demi. Moore, demi Moore's character, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 5So she's had a lot of success, you know, doing like an aerobics type show that, like you know, like let's Get Physical, or like Jane Fonda, her aerobics type show that, like you know, like let's get physical, or like Jane Fonda, her aerobics things, right. So she and she, the production, whoever produces this show, whoever owns the show, she's they, she's tools, and they want to push her out. She's 60. And they want, they're, they're pushing her out, yeah, and they want to hire someone very young to replace her. And she, over here, you know, she's very self-conscious about the fact that she's made them a lot of money and and now she knows that this is what they want to do.
Speaker 5And she comes across an advertisement for a substance that you can get that and I'm not sure that she completely understands what it is. But she decides to order this substance and picks it up, and so when you inject it into yourself, then a younger self or younger being, um, you share your life with this person. So every seven days, the you that you are is functioning and living your life. And then, in seven days, then this younger person who is not the it's, it's not the younger, I thought maybe, and I wonder if she thought maybe it was gonna be her younger self. But it's Margaret Tully. It's a completely different person. Well, it just so happens that that younger self goes and gets the job to host the show, and so there it's, this substance. It's borderline horror-like. Have you ever seen Black Mirror like a Black Mirror? Uh, it's a series called black mirror. Well, it's a little bit out there, and this movie a little bit like that, where you like what happened.
Speaker 5So there there are some issues that arise, but it is a little bit of a commentary on just women and beauty and, you know, being too old or pushed out of the way to some degree. But it gets kind of gross at the end.
Speaker 3I had heard that and also I love Margaret Qualley. She is Andy what's-her-name's daughter.
Speaker 4Yeah, andy McDowell.
Speaker 3Andy McDowell's daughter and she was in a movie the Maid and that's so good. With Andy McDowell that's a really good movie. So I like Margaret Qualley, but I had heard that it was horror and that it was a little shocking because horror movies don't get nominated for Best Oscar Right.
Speaker 5Yeah, and it's not your typical horror movie. I think the description is that it is. Some of the stuff is borderline sci-fi weird that's occurring. So there's no jump scares. It's not like that kind of a horror movie. It's a little mind-bending. There are some, you know, a little bit of gore to it, but that wasve's least favorite movie oh and I thought it was kind of fascinating.
Speaker 5But I also was like I can't look at this scene because it was too like something kind of gross was happening, or so it was interesting, so that that's an interesting um thing that you bring up Steve's favorites versus your favorites.
Speaker 3Yeah, what movies did Steve really like or think that were going to win, and what movies did you really like? Did you guys have opposing views on anything?
Speaker 5No, Well, I didn't think the Substance was the worst movie, and this happened last year too. Do you remember the one with Francis McDormand? It was called Nomad maybe. Yeah, he did not like that at all.
Speaker 4Oh really.
Speaker 5And I really enjoyed that movie. That was like an example. And so Substance was on the bottom of his list. It wasn't necessarily on the bottom of my list, but he really liked a complete unknown and he thought that a complete unknown would win. So the one that he would have awarded and the one he thought was going to win was the same movie, a complete unknown, where I in I really enjoyed um wicked. I didn't necessarily think it would win, like if I got to just pick which one I like the best personally, for me I might, I would say that but I thought that conclave would um win the award and I enjoyed conclave. It wasn't.
Speaker 3There wasn't a weird you know thing for me about it so so the only movie that I watched we haven't talked about, and that is A Real Pain isn't that what?
Speaker 3that was called, with Kieran Culkin and, um, jesse Eisenberg, is that right? Yeah, yeah, um, I did watch that and you know I I premised certain oh, I think it was in the episode where we were talking about reality TV. I don't do awkward well, and Kieran Culkin's character in that movie was so freaking awkward and damn annoying. At least you know that I powered through and I watched the whole thing and I did actually really like the movie. I thought that was good. Not that I thought it was going to be an Oscar winner, but anybody else who else saw that?
Speaker 2Yeah, I saw that one as well. I was a little bit surprised that it was nominated. Bit surprised that it was. That it was nominated um, because and I think this is what got me thinking about what are the qualities that make these things best picture um worthy, yeah, and I mean I enjoyed it um well, so just to know that one was not a best picture nomination.
Speaker 5Tyrion Culkin was nominated for Best Actor and won right Best Supporting, Supporting. Yeah.
Speaker 2So, yeah, I thought it was a good movie. I enjoyed it. I agreed the awkward. It's one of those movies that you just have to keep watching because you need or you're hopeful for a happy ending on it. So it's fun to see him have a role like that. I haven't seen a lot of what he's done recently. I still think of him as the younger actor that he was and always assumed that he would be in the shadow of his older brother, but what a great career he's turning out to have.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2What was the?
Speaker 4really popular series a couple years ago. He was in that and I really liked him in that. I can't think of the name.
Speaker 5Yeah, succession, that's what I was just going to ask if any of you watched him in Succession.
Speaker 4Yep, that was good.
Speaker 5I did not. He is very unlikable in Succession.
Speaker 4As is everyone in the entire show. Oh, everybody is unlikable.
Speaker 5We watched it all, but we regularly said there's not one person amongst them that really seems to have a good quality.
Speaker 2No, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3Of the nine movies. We've talked about some of them. What's your recommendation, anne, and what are the ones that people should? If you're going to go out of your comfort zone or your, what should people watch? Oh, wow, uh. Well, what's worth three hours of time?
Speaker 5I feel like that. I mean Onora won. I feel like you should probably watch it and find out what you think about the fact that it won Again.
Speaker 5just a fair warning Maybe not with any of your children around while you, while you're there there, how about that? Uh, I, I just think it's interesting it won and, um, I I was looking at my you know phone at some point today and it was a pretty long back and forth going on in many um threads. Uh, you know, going on in many threads, you know comments to somebody's post about being confused about it winning and there seem to be real polarizing and opposing views about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So that would be a good one to watch. Well, I will tell you that, just listening to you, just give those little synopsis, the little synopsis of each of those. There are quite a few of them that I think I will want to watch over the next few weeks, and I am glad that we can stream them, but I love going to the movie theater to watch them.
Speaker 3so um, do you think, kitty, though, you're going to stay awake, because the running joke is that Kitty does usually fall asleep?
Speaker 2yeah, at the movie theater, at the theater, not just at home, only at home. I don't fall asleep at the theater because I am eating the gigantic bucket yes we need to know it, is there butter in there or no butter in there?
Speaker 5Oh, always butter or mine must know topping, quit calling it.
Speaker 3I can't have that. No, that's so not for me. It's a better flavor topping.
Speaker 5One more question for you guys about streaming a movie at home. Are you able to pause the movie and say we'll finish it tomorrow?
Speaker 4No.
Speaker 5That's like two camps of people. No, I can, I can, yeah, no, that's like two camps of people. I can, yeah, no, Yep. So we we both my husband and I are totally fine with pausing the movie and saying we're going to pick this up tomorrow. And that makes it easier to stream nine movies, yeah.
Speaker 4Probably yeah.
Speaker 3Or in like some years, we've seen one in the movie theater and yeah, so I did not realize that this was the weekend of Oscars project for you. I thought that you had it kind of sparsed out, parsed out, parsed out, that I didn't realize it was a binge fest that you did the weekend of the Oscars.
Speaker 4Okay, well, a lot, we know who we're calling.
The Changing Landscape of Movie Viewing
Speaker 5Yeah, I just think you should just join in. I mean, do it. You could do it for the. You could just look and see which ones did we go to already and then you could just do one a night. You know, you don't have to do it. We find ourselves going oh it's Sunday night, we should get these movies done. So it wasn't necessarily what we wanted to binge for Friday night all day, saturday and Sunday. We just you know it moves around, it doesn't seem to always be on the exact same date- but it is always within a fairly short amount of time, right?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I think that's a very cool idea.
Speaker 3That's a shot, that's a shot, yep.
Speaker 2Anne's like what?
Speaker 5I don't know what that was, but yes, yeah.
Speaker 4Suggestions for people should do Suggestions.
Speaker 2Yes, Anne, this has been so great. Thank you for your expertise. Thank you for being the lifeline on Oscar movies.
Speaker 4Yeah, I do, I do have. I do have a shot. All right, what's your shot? Okay, well, you know all the things that don't make the Oscar show. You know they. There's other categories that they just announced, you know, and nobody's maybe not even picking up their award or whatever. Well, did you know? We won an Oscar. We won best podcast. Three cocktails in won best audio podcast.
Speaker 3Did we know it could have been audio, because I freeze all the time.
Speaker 4Well, audio works. It's video. We didn't win video. No, we won audio, not video.
Speaker 2I would like to know why we weren't allowed to go with you to accept the award.
Speaker 4Well, they mailed it. It went so far down in the list that they just mailed it.
Speaker 3They didn't have time yes, that is fitting, because we on occasion mail things in too yes, we do we do we do quite often this one, this one, we did not mail in no fabulous.
Speaker 2Thank you and you, yes, we. Perhaps we'll have you back. Are there other areas of expertise that you can share with us?
Speaker 5No, I am not the expert of anything, ever again.
Speaker 2Well, we hope you had fun and we greatly appreciate it. Thank you, yes, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5Yes, absolutely, thank you. Stay here with us, anne.
Speaker 2We're going gonna close out here, but don't go away, alright, everyone? We'll see you guys next week bye bye bye.
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