2026 Oscar Predictions, Snubs and Surprises + Movie Review: Mercy + Trailer Park: Crime 101

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. I'm your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and co host Kelsey. How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm great. We're recording this late on a Friday night, before the snow.

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Speaker 2: We aren't prepared. I mean we don't have like a generator or anything. So we're prepared for every scenario except that.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of snacks. We have so many beverages, coffee, we're good, battery chargers, all the things.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, shout out to my grandparents. They've given us a lot of like emergency weather gear. We have this like battery pack thing that's like so strong it could jump start a car.

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Speaker 1: But we are here to talk about the OSCAR nominations. I will give my predictions, surprises and snubs in the movie review. I went to go see Before the Storm, the new Chris Pratt movie Mercy.

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Speaker 2: Before the Storm is not the name of the movie. Before the Storm is when you went to see it. Can we also discuss what happened to me before the storm this week? Before our driveways even icye yes, I so we have this weird driveway. It's like not a concrete I think it's like an aggregate material, is what my boss thinks it is. And it gets really slick when it rains, and so I was so careful all day. The day it rained, I get back from working out and I step on the driveway wrong and I go down. I'm talking hard, like right on my elbow. I have no chance to like try to break my fall with anything elbow and tailbone. I come in like not fully sobbing. I think I came in pretty.

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Speaker 1: Calm, too calm.

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Speaker 2: It was the adrenaline picked me up and got me inside. And then I took a shower and cried the whole time. And then I cried a lot after. My elbow's not broken. I did have to get an X ray, but it is like black and blue limited range of motion. Today was the first day I could like wash my hair again. But yeah, that's what I did this week. So I had to get my yearly X ray. And I say yearly because I've had to get an X ray every year for the past like five years, because I injure myself.

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Speaker 1: You're technically on the men now, Yes, hasn't gotten worse which is really worse.

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Speaker 2: My tailbone hurts too because I fell on that, so getting up it's a bit difficult because I can only use like one arm. Anyways, I just I and to just tell everyone be careful.

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Speaker 1: And then we'll wrap it up in the trailer park and talk about Chris hemsworst new movie Crime one oh one, which actually looks pretty good. Mark Ruffalo, halle Berry, thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk movies from the podcast Network Movie Mikes Movie Podcast. All right, we will get right into the list. Kelsey will read the category and the nominees, and I'll give you my predictions. Let's kick it off with Best Picture.

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Speaker 2: All right. The nominees are Pigonia, F One, Frankenstein, Hamnett, Marty, Supreme One, Battle after Another, Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Trained Dreams.

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Speaker 1: I love that there's a big variety this year.

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Speaker 2: Big variety.

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Speaker 1: You have F One, which is well, Sinners did really well, but on top of that another just really good, commercially successful movie that people have actually seen.

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Speaker 2: We were so surprised to how Muchweenjoy that movie loved it.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that those movies get represented because is it the most novel movie now? But was it really good and it had Brad Pitt, great director and people actually watched it. Yeah, Sinners is right up there too because a lot of people watch that movie too, and it's also just a really good movie, so you have some representation here. I do think there are some snubs. I would have liked to have seen Weapons, which also did really well, but probably in the eyes of the Academy not the most novel movie. They also have a hard time recognizing horror, which Sinners is all over the place. Has the most nominations of any movie now, which is awesome.

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Speaker 2: But there is some representation for Weapons later in the category.

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Speaker 1: Yes there is, but I would have loved to have seen them. For Best Picture. K Pop Demon Hunters I also think should have been in this category. Massive movie, probably the biggest movie of the year just on streaming numbers alone, and impact as far as like just the culture relevance, the song everything.

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Speaker 2: I Know, multiple songs that I never watched, the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: I think that is worthy of the Best Picture because to me, best Picture defines the year. I look back on the Best Picture winners, and I think that is where we stood in culture in that year. K Pop Demon Hunters should have been nominated. Sorry, Baby should have been nominated. So fantastic movie. I was surprised not to see that there. And Wicked not getting anything, which is about good.

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Speaker 2: Remember when we all thought like Wicked didn't get it, We're like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the definitely waiting until they close this.

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Speaker 2: Out, although I do think the first movie was better. Was either was going to be nominated first.

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Speaker 1: But I thought they would hold off until the whole thing was out. This is where you get your flowers. To not get anything that is crazy. But there are some really good nominees in there. I would say, overall, probably the strongest class of nominees for Best Picture since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: It's really strong.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to who I think is going to win, I'm going to say one battle after another, that is my prediction. It crushed at the Golden Glows, but even if that was not in consideration here, I just think it has the team behind it because to win Best Picture, you also have to have a team campaigning for you to win, and I think it also has the best team.

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Speaker 2: Can I give my predictions or you can't cast Hane.

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Speaker 1: Just because it's just straight up like this is what the Academy wants. It's so artsy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it already won like Best Drama at the Golden Globes. I think like their press tour was really strong, and I think like even like their press after the Golden Globes, like I just kind of feel like they have that push on like relatability but like likability, the cast lovable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I would really want Sinners to win, Like I could see that moment just being like the moment of the night, of the entire cast and crew going up there and accepting that award. But I almost feel like when you see somebody get so many nominations, that doesn't always indicate that they're going to win the big ones. Whenever Killers of the Flower Moon had, I think at the time the record for the most man win anything anything big going based upon how the Academy has voted in the past and how much I think a force that one battle after another has behind it. That is my prediction for Best Picture.

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Speaker 2: Next category, Best Actor, we have Timothy Chalame for Martie Supreme chal May, Leonardo DiCaprio for one Battle after another, Ethan Hawk and Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan and Sinners and Wagner Mora and The Secret Agent.

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Speaker 1: Really cool for Michael B. Jordan to get his first nomination. I saw like he called his mom and they were crying so sweet. You kind of forget because he's been so successful for so long, is rich and famous. You think that things like this wouldn't matter to him. But it's still the pinnacle of an actor's career to be nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah, and I realized that seeing that story, like, oh, this still means a lot, Like that's what they want to It's like an athlete wanting to win the Super Bowl. That is still what they aspire to do. And he was really good in Sinners. But I think the winner here is going to be Timothy Shalloman. No I'm predicting. You don't want him to win.

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Speaker 2: But I'm like, of all the performances in that category, I.

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Speaker 1: Just think that when you look at all these movies, his performance is the most essential to that movie being good. Without Timothy shallow May that is Marty Supreme, that movie would not have the same impact. He is the driving force behind that Leonardo DiCaprio is really good in One Battle, but it's not his best performance and it doesn't drive the whole movie. He has a great supporting cast there. Michael B. Jordan does play two characters, though he plays two people in the same movie. I feel like he is who I want to win, but I'm predicting who will win.

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Speaker 2: I'm going Michael B. Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I would love to see that, but I still think it's gonna go Timothy Shallo May. He's been eve been wanting this for so long. He got so close with a complete unknown that IM not quite that, but I think he wants this. The surprising thing for me here was the Rock didn't get a nomination, not because I think he deserved it, but just because I think he thinks he deserved it. And that is the whole reason I think he did the Smashing Machine was to get an Oscar nomination at the minimum. To see him not get one, it just reminds me that he's now going to do a bunch of Jumanji movies and Malwana's as much as we can crank out, because he's gonna be like, Oh, I tried it once, it didn't work out.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually disaster movies and if you could give us another disaster movie, we haven't had a good one since, like Skyscraper.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love another Ron Andreas. Yeah, I will take one of those because whenever Black Adam didn't do well, he hasn't touched the superhero genre again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, give me, give me a disaster movie.

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Speaker 1: The Rock all right.

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Speaker 2: Next category Best Actress, Jesse Buckley for Hamnet, Rose Byrn for If I Had legs, I'd kick you, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, Renata, Rinseve for Sentimental Value, and Emma Stone for Pegonna.

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Speaker 1: Really cool for Rose Byrn to get her first nomination, love that for her. Kate Hudson is a rising out of all the performances in this past year. Kate Hudson gets a nomination out of Nowhere song Sung Blue out of Nowhere just gets one of the biggest nominations of the That is wild to me. I think this is the easiest category I've had to pay say it on.

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Speaker 2: The kind of three one two three.

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Speaker 1: Jesse Buckley, There's no way she doesn't win. There's just no way, because I think she does outshine Paul Meskal in that movie, which is what he's supposed to. He didn't get a nomination at all, which is a big injustice as well. But the emotional level of her performance in Hamnet is just that's just instantly goes to her next category.

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Speaker 2: Best Supporting Actor. Beniccio del Toro one battle after another, Jacob Alordi, Frankenstein, Delroy Lindo, Sinners, Sean Penn, one battle after another, and Stellin Scar's guards sentiment of value, who if he want? I could only hope it is to the tune of yeah Sure, which they like. The Golden Gloves. The music at the Golden Globes was so weird. I think it was like the Spotify ai DJ. I think they just said, like they started with one and it was just like, you know what, I got something else for you that you're gonna love.

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Speaker 1: I think they were trying to, I would say, appeal to a younger audience, but no one younger kid is gonna know some of the songs that they were playing.

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Speaker 2: And then they had like people giving like live comment and you couldn't hear it.

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Speaker 1: It was like a little bit you couldn't hear it over the music.

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Speaker 2: It was a hot mess. There's too many things.

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Speaker 1: I think they're just trying to make the award show more appealing to people with short attention spans.

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Speaker 2: Of sensory overloaded.

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Speaker 1: Because they also had like the map that would show like where the person was sitting, because historically at the Golden Globes it takes so long for the winners to get to the stage. So they're like, how can we make this more interesting. Let's put a map, let's blast some music from the two thousands, and then let's have two people giving commentary and random fun facts as they're walking along chaotic.

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Speaker 2: Also the fact that you just said some younger people wouldn't know all the music. I just felt so old are you talking about? Yeah, there's a gen that doesn't know that song?

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Speaker 1: H I think that song is at least twenty years old, but that's like a CLASSI probably twenty three years old. That song can drink you just call it for me. It's between Benicio and Jacob Balordi. I think it's surprised. Sometimes I just don't even know what constitutes a supporting actor because Jacob Ballordi and Frankenstein is Frankenstein's monster. He is a whole like third chapter to just hit or maybe it's the second chapter. It's all about him. I feel like that's way bigger than a supporting actor, so I could have even seen him in the best actor category, So it's almost hard to completely rule him out. But I love Benisio so much in one Battle after another that he had such a what I would say was limited time on screen where I wanted more of him. He was so good, but when he was on screen, it was so memorable. And the entire scene of him getting pulled over the dance the little beers, like that's just that is the moment for me of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: I think he gets it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is who I have. I think it's between them two, but I think Benisio gets it all right.

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Speaker 2: Best supporting actress Elle Fanning sentimental valume, inga Ibsider, Lily Oz sentimental valume, Amy Madigan, Weapons Woon, Mimo Saku, centers, and Tiana Taylor won Battle after another.

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Speaker 1: This is a tough one. There's a lot of good people in there. I think the split in sentimental value hurts it a little bit, just because you have essentially two actors with the same force behind them, splitting the vote there. Oh, this is really tough for me because Tiana Taylor was also really good one bad. I mean, everybody in here was really good. Amy Madigan is like next level and Weapons because you don't even recognize her.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had no clue I.

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Speaker 1: Did when I was watching it. It was just hard for me to even comprehend that that was her. I want to go her so bad, but I think it's because out of all these movies I love, probably I just have like a close connection to Weapons because I feel like it was underrepresented that I would like this to be the only one that they actually win. But I am also considering how they are going to vote, and my pick for winner is l Fanning. Even though I didn't love Sentimental Value, I still think her performance in that, paired with how I think the Academy is going to vote, I think she wins, which she is first time nominated. I think that would be huge for her.

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Speaker 2: And it was really sweet how much Dakota Fanning celebrated her too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think she's Yeah, she's like crushing it right now, crushing. I haven't seen a bad role of hers in everything I saw her in the last year.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go, Tiana Taylor. All right, next category, Best Director, we have Chloe Jau for Hamnett, Josh Safty from Marty Supreme, Paul Thomas Anderson for one Battle after another, you know, a Kim Trier for sentimental value, and Ryan Kugler for Sinners.

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Speaker 1: I want Ryan Cougler to win.

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Speaker 2: So this is a tough category.

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Speaker 1: I just how do you nominate that movie for so many awards and have it not win because it's against just three other what I would consider top tier movies that are right there with it. I like Ryan Cougler the best out of everybody here, but it's almost so hard to bet against Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Speaker 2: Oh see, I was gonna say Chloe shoo really.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah's she has won it before.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it would be awesome for Kuchler to win.

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Speaker 1: I think I think he would be the most in awe. He would easily give the best speech, which is what I love. I love seeing somebody go up there and they talk about how much this is just completing their dream.

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Speaker 2: Don't let one of the Safti brothers up there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see Josh Saftie even in the I mean he is in the conversation because he is nominated, obviously, But to me, the conversation is between Hamnett one Battle and Sinners. Hard for me to bet against it, even though I want Ryan Cougler. I'm gonna go Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna go Cloe Show.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Best Animated Feature Film Arco l e O, K Pop Demon Hunters, Little Emily or the Character of Rain, and Zutopia two.

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Speaker 1: Disney just always gets almost like just I mean, Zutopia did make the most money out of any movie on this list.

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Speaker 2: And it is one of the only movies we saw twice lash and it.

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Speaker 1: Is really good. It's pretty good. Really hard for any movie that is a sequel to win, but if you are going to win, it's going to be in the Best Animated because Toy Story three did win this category, so not impossible. I'm surprised Eliot is nominated. I don't feel like that is the strongest Pixar movie in the last ten years. But I think if K Pop Demon Hunters does not win, we riot, Yeah, like you can't. It got two nominations total.

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Speaker 2: The biggest cultural sensation, It's it was the main attraction of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day perides. It is the number one, like Halloween Costume. I think it has to be that.

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Speaker 1: The most amount of hours watched. There is such a huge disparity between one and two on Netflix between how many hours watched. Yeah, that it swallows everything else on Netflix right now. So I'm going k Pop Demon Hunters agreed.

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Speaker 2: Next is best adapted screenplay, bigogna, Frankenstein, Hamnet, one Battle after Another or train Dreams.

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Speaker 1: So adapted a meaning that it was either a book or some other work and they turn it into a screenplay, make it into a movie. I'm gonna go Frankenstein. It is hard to retell Frankenstein in a way that hasn't been done before, that feels fresh, that feels unique, and Gamel de Toro is probably the only person who could still have success doing a story that is old at this point. So I'm going with Frankenstein. I think that was pretty easy.

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Speaker 2: I'm going Hamnet, betting all of my money on Hamnet.

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Speaker 1: Tang. I didn't know you'd go so hard on Hamnet.

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Speaker 2: I also liked the movie better than the book, okay, because I forgot you read the book, so it is not like a fast moving story. It's not like action packed, like there are events, but it is a bit of a slower movie, wouldn't you say a little more contemplated.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so much of a slow burn that if you don't movies where you have to pay attention the whole time and really soaking the emotions, you're not going to have a good time.

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Speaker 2: And I think that story was better told on film than in a book because it's a lot of descriptive adjectives in the book, and I find that easier to absorb in a visual medium.

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Speaker 1: You can so feel it, you can live in it.

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Speaker 2: And I just again Jesse Buckley's performance and the little kid who played AMNet. So yeah, I'm going Hamnet. I didn't expect to ride this hard for Hamlet, but here we are speaking to me in this moment.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Next, the Best Original Screenplay Blue Moon. It was just an accident, Marty, Supreme Centimental Value or sinners.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go sinners here. I think it's going to win, maybe not all the big awards, but I think it can take some home here in the lower categories. I'm going to go with sinners.

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Speaker 2: I agree, all right, Best International film The Secret Agent from Brazil. It was just an accident. France, sentimental value, Norway, Sarat Spain and the Voice of Hindrijab Tunisia.

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Speaker 1: First of all, no other choice. Where is no other choice? How did that not get a nomination, not only for Best International Film. I thought that was gonna be an easy one.

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Speaker 2: We riot.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was worthy of getting a Best Picture nomination and I was like, Okay, I didn't get Best Picture. Maybe not that dynamic enough category was crowded, But to not get Best International Film, that is crazy to me. That is one of the best movies we saw it in the last year. That being said easily goes to sentimental value. That's it's nominated for Best Picture. I think that's an easy one. Sentimental value all the way.

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Speaker 2: I agree next, best film editing f one Martie Supreme, one bottle after another, sentimental value for sinners.

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Speaker 1: I think film editing is so important at because the hardest thing about making a movie is sometimes when you're making it, you don't know what you have yet and you think you got it, but so much of it is in the edit where I think some people don't realize, like how did they not know they were making a bad movie. It all comes down to the editing. What take do they decide to use? Do they use the best one? Do they piece all the story together in a way that it was envisioned while they were making it. Sometimes it can get lost in the edit. So I think that is why I love that this category exists. I'm going with Marty Supreme because I think the editing in that movie creates an incredible pacing that made that movie give me anxiety. And I think that all comes in the editing, the pacing of the action, and it always feels like it's moving forward. I think of all the movies, it had the most unique editing. So I'm going Marty Supreme.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go F one.

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Speaker 1: I could see that one too. I think that was a big part of making that story feel as big as possible, And a lot of the editing when it came to the actual action in the races was also really good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Best costume Design Avatar, Fire and Ash, Frankenstein, Hamnett, Marty Supreme, Sinners.

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Speaker 1: This is actually a tough category when you think about it. I love the cast costume design category because I love the people who win this award and go give their speech, because those people are the most passionate of anybody in this category. Oh yeah, if you love costume design, you really love costume design and it.

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Speaker 2: Tells so much of a story that you don't think about, like how important the clothes are in a movie.

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Speaker 1: The textures of clothes, the getting it right down to the time period, and all the little things. You don't realize how much perfect detail it adds to a story. And in this category you have a lot of movies set back in the like Frankenstein. The wardrobe is so important. Yea costume is so important. Hamnet also incredibly important, Marty Supreme also with the trousers and the old school fifties attire super important. In Sinners they used I think a lot of the wardrobe that was meant for the Blade movie. So all these movies.

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Speaker 2: Is there even costumes in Avatar?

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. Make a lot of it is computer and it's a little loinclaw. So take that one out of the category.

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Speaker 2: We haven't mentioned that one yet. You started at Frankenstein. I'm just skipped over at it because I didn't consider that. Well, I guess the humans in.

00:21:13
Speaker 1: It what military ulitary? That's it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This that is a miss fire on fire and ash that should not be in this category. So I think when it comes down to it, if I had to pick one that I would dress like, I'd be Marty Supreme, Like that is the wardrobe I would steal from and wear. But I think when it comes to you, who should win this award, I'm going with Frankenstein.

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Speaker 2: I'm also going Frankenstein for this one. I love that category Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Again, people very passionate. Yeah, what they're doing Frankenstein, Coaku Oh Sinners, the Smashing Machine and the Ugly Stop Sister.

00:21:51
Speaker 1: Easy Frankenstein. That's because of Jacob Elordi's sitting in that chair for an hour's total track.

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Speaker 2: Jieve Cynthia Riveo didn't. Yeah, even like Wicked get for best Makeup and Hairstyling. She was turned green every day. That's crazy. Yeah, And like Ariana Grande's hair is Glinda.

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Speaker 1: The good And this, I mean the Smashing Machine got it because of the prosthetics they used on the Rock to make him look a little bit different. Didn't make the movie any better. But then by the end of it he looks exactly the same because he shaves his head. I'm going with Frankenstein, all right.

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Speaker 2: Best visual Effects Avatar, Fire and ash f one, Jurassic World Rebirth, sorry, laughter, the Lost Bus, and Sinners. I just wasn't expecting Jurassic World in that category.

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Speaker 1: The Lost Bus to get a nomination is kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that was a good movie, but I also know that we love disaster movies. Yeah, I was a little disappointed when I found out how much okay, not how much they embellished, because like, I didn't want real people to go through like the trauma. But then you're like, this based on a true story and then you're like, oh, the parts that were the most like harrowing parts up. So I had mixed feelings about that. But yes, cool to get a nomination, but did have a lot of good visual effects for stunning that made the movie.

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Speaker 1: Sinners, I mean good, but I don't think Oscar worthy. Jurassic World Rebirth, no way, I don't know how I mean, I think this is kind of like, Okay, let's.

00:23:11
Speaker 2: This was a paid nomination by Snickers, if you know, you know from Snickers.

00:23:15
Speaker 1: Dinosaurs didn't even look that good. In that movie, the.

00:23:18
Speaker 2: Only good visual effect was Jonathan Bailey and as the Internet took to calling them slutty little glasses.

00:23:24
Speaker 1: And f one, I don't see the visual effects being as dynamic as Avatar. I'm going with Avatar.

00:23:29
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you also skipped Avatar again, you didn't even mention it.

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Speaker 1: I like to go back to it, but I think it's easily Avatar, because yeah, the movie was really good looking, visually stunning, the automatically boring last year, the only movie we went to go see that. I truly felt like seeing it on the big screen impacted it the most because it really looked different. It looked like a video game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the beginning it had like so much motion and we didn't even see it in three D that I was like, I'm gonna be sick.

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Speaker 1: It's so like visual It looked like we were watching like the highest quality screen, even though it was just our normal screen. Wasn't iMac wasn't anything different. So for that reason, I'm going Avatar, Fire and Ash.

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Speaker 2: I would agree with that one, all right, Best sound f one, Frankenstein one Battle after Another, Sinners, sarat F one.

00:24:19
Speaker 1: I'm going right off the bat because that sound design was so good in F one, wouldn't put.

00:24:25
Speaker 2: You in like thinking you were at an actual Formula one race.

00:24:29
Speaker 1: It sounds of the cars and the tires and the engines.

00:24:32
Speaker 2: The pit crew, like just like when they'd pull in and you're like quickly taking tires off, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And how they took out like all the other sound at times like there was no crowd noise, there was no score or music playing. It was so raw and put you right in that seat with Brad Pitt that if ever I talk about the sound during a review, and I think out of all these movies, that was the really only one that I brought that up. That means it has to win. I'm going with F one, all right.

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Speaker 2: Best cinematography Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, One Battle after Another, Sinners or Train Dreams.

00:25:05
Speaker 1: I love cinematography, and this is the really stack category.

00:25:10
Speaker 2: But there's one that we watched it. Yeah, and you said that you think you're gonna take it's gonna take it.

00:25:15
Speaker 1: Because Frankenstein really good. Marty Supreme probably the weakest out of this entire category. One Battle after Another really good, Like there's some really greatly framed shots and just ways that the camera is set. Also the types of camera that they used to create such amazing depth. Sinners also really good, had some fantastic shots. I think one of the best shots of the year with Michael B. Jordan and Preacher Boy at the very end with the flames in their eyes. Like there are specific moments from all these movies that are just set in my head as photographs. But the one movie I watched and I was immediately knew this was going to be my pick, Train Dreams.

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Speaker 2: It has to win.

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Speaker 1: It's in the four to three aspect ratio, which is the square, which I love because anytime a movie is in that ratio, that means it's committing to an art style. And you could take any single frame of Train Dreams and print it off and put it on your wall and it's the great photo.

00:26:11
Speaker 2: The color saturation, the tone of the film beautiful, best color grading I've seen in a Netflix movie ever.

00:26:19
Speaker 1: Stunning that even though the movie is a slower burn, Oh, it's so good and such a visual treat because it's so comforting and looks so good the entire time. Very sad movie, yes, it is very sad. It's just the story about a guy in the early nineteen hundred, just live in his life.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: And some trying to make a living as a logger.

00:26:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you haven't seen that one, it's also the most accessible movie because it is on Netflix. That's the other thing that I don't like whenever these nominations come out is it's not always the easiest to watch them all because some of them come out in like small theater runs. I wish they were all available to watch.

00:26:55
Speaker 2: My younger brother Major is not happy about.

00:26:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough.

00:26:59
Speaker 2: He's like, none of these are like on streaming, and he's like they're not playing it like the cinemak down the Road.

00:27:05
Speaker 1: Not even some ransomtimes or you'd at the buyer for like twenty blocks.

00:27:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:27:08
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm going with Train Dreams on that one. We have my couple more categories here, all right.

00:27:14
Speaker 2: Best Original Song Dear Me by Diane Warren from Diane Warren, Relentless Golden by E. J. Mark, Sonenblick, Jung Goo Kwak You, Han Lee Hi, Dong Nam Jong hun Son and Teddy Park from k POB Demon Hunters. I Lied to You by Raphael Sadik and Ludwig Gordonson from Centers Sweet Dreams of Joy by Nicholas Pike from Viva Verdi and Trained Dreams by Nick Caven Bryce Doesner from Trained Dreams.

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Speaker 1: I would love Ludwig to win. He's one of my favorite musicians. He's done things for like The Mandalorian. He was Childish Gambino's guitar player on tour for a long time, and I saw him a couple of times. I just like him as a person. But we've been talking about this movie on this episode. If Golden does not win for Best Original Song, they have to sweep both of their categories. They have to go two for two for me to be satisfied.

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Speaker 2: I feel like Train Dreams had to be like a best score. Yeah, not an original song.

00:28:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, the original song. It was more of the score. Yeah. I'm gonna go Golden. I think that's an easy one.

00:28:13
Speaker 2: All right. And the final one a new category this year, best casting, which is a great category. I know it's like a fun category, but it's like who got the more popular people in a movie?

00:28:22
Speaker 1: Okay, not necessarily, we'll talk about it.

00:28:24
Speaker 2: Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle after another, The Secret Agent and Sinners.

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Speaker 1: See. My pick for this one is Marty supreme because it has a mix of a listers like Timothy Shallowmey and Gwyneth Paltrow. But then you have so many out of the box people like mister Wonderful from Shark Tank.

00:28:43
Speaker 2: I just like, wasn't I saw online that he was in it, but I saw it as like a cameo, so I was thinking just like short roll. So then when he popped up on screen, I like couldn't place him, but he started talking and I was like Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank.

00:28:58
Speaker 1: And then you have Tyler the Krea, you have Ted Williams, the guy who went viral for having the Golden Voye.

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Speaker 2: Tyler the Creator. At one point I leaned over to you and I'm like, who is that? And you looked at me. I was so offended, like you wanted to maybe serve me to force papers in that the interview because I and I was like, you said Tyler the Creator and I was like, okay, I was just making sure I promise I knew that's who it was. I should have said, is that Tyler the Creator? I didn't freeze it? Well, yes, please forgive me.

00:29:24
Speaker 1: And then even the guy who plays like his business partner in the movie was just a random guy that Josh Saftie saw give like a viral TikTok interview after a Knicks game. I think Josh Saftie is one of those guys who just finds really random people to put in his movies next to these amazing stars. So I think, out of all the castings for this movie, even though Sinners has also has a really great cast, One Battle has a great cast. Since it is a new category, I don't know how they're going to vote because I don't know what they're looking for. Is it variety, is it the biggest star because One Battle has Leonardo DiCaprio, or is it just like the caliber of actor. I don't know how they're going to vote in this. So I'm thinking of it of just who has the most unique cast and had probably the hardest time getting all these people in one movie, I'm gonna go Marty Supreme.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: I'm going Hamnet for the brothers that were in it. Uh yeah, the younger brother plays Hamnet and then the older brother is in a theater production.

00:30:24
Speaker 1: It's also probably really hard to find kid actors who can act on that level. Can you imagine the process in that.

00:30:32
Speaker 2: One of the most stunning performances I've ever seen from a younger actor.

00:30:38
Speaker 1: Truly, I haven't showed that much emotion in my entire life. That kid showed in one movie, one performance.

00:30:44
Speaker 2: And then Joe Alwin gotta say it was pretty good, pretty good, and obviously Paul Mascal and Jesse Buckley like phenomenal together. Have you seen the video that Chloe Shao released of them all dancing? Oh yeah, the last hand filming of just like that emotional release.

00:31:00
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, there's some good from this movie.

00:31:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah, I'm gonna go hamming it.

00:31:03
Speaker 1: There some more snubs that we maybe didn't mention, Chase Infinity not getting a nomination for one battle after another. I thought she would get one. There. We mentioned Paul Meskell not getting one. Jay Kelly was pretty much shut out, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Noah Bombback didn't get any nominations. There, major films that did not get any Oscar nominations.

00:31:24
Speaker 2: Can I read these?

00:31:25
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:31:26
Speaker 2: All right? J Kelly, Superman Sorry baby material listens after the hunt. Oh yeah, I thought that did kind of feel like Oscar bait.

00:31:35
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it felt. Like a clear oscar bait movie. Not get any oscars.

00:31:39
Speaker 2: Crazy twenty eight years later, The Long Walk, No other choice Mmmm, Wicked for good, The Testament of Van Lee, Kiss of the Spider Woman, so that the one with j Low Yeah, Demon Slayer, Infinity.

00:31:50
Speaker 1: Castle, Yeah, we need an anime representation.

00:31:53
Speaker 2: Wake Up dead Man and knives on mister. That was good. It was good and Mission impossible.

00:31:58
Speaker 1: The Final Reckoning Yeah that probably it got sound or visual effects.

00:32:02
Speaker 2: Longest running Tom Cruise franchise.

00:32:05
Speaker 1: But that is the list. Those are my predictions. The oscars are going down on March fifteenth. I'm looking forward to it. I think it'll be good.

00:32:13
Speaker 2: It's always a fun night in this house.

00:32:14
Speaker 1: Conan is hosting. And then eventually the oscars are going to move straight to YouTube. I forgot about that, which I think will be fine. I mean, it really doesn't change how we watch him. We watch him on a streaming service anyway. But we have to get like premium YouTube, not just regular YouTube. Okay, makes it easy. I'll come back and get my spoiler free review of Mercy. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Mercy starring Chris Pratt Rebecca Ferguson Chris Pratt plays a detective. He is on trial for the murder of his wife and he claims, I didn't do it, but not that simple. Takes place in the near future and he stands before an AI judge. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence or else he will be killed right there in the chair that he is being interrogated in. He is alone in this room and everything around him is AI. And the thing about him sitting in that chair, it's a little bit ironic because he is the person who is the proponent of using this system, this justice system that is supposed to be the most perfect way to sentence criminals because AI has no bias. AI can look at all the data and it doesn't make decisions based on emotions. It only makes them based on the facts. That is what this movie is trying to tell us, trying to have a really big message of should you have any lenience when it comes to somebody suspected of a murder as heinous as killing their wife, or do you just need to look at data and is all the proof you need in phone records and text messages and ring cameras, which is what this movie does because Chris Prat is essentially sitting in one location the entire time in order to prove his innocence. He has an entire database at his use, at his fingertips, even though he is strapped into this chair. He can make FaceTime calls, he can look up phone records, and he is trying to show this AI judge a little bit of his character, and you learn a lot about his backstory, his relationship with his wife. I would like to say this movie had more twist and turns, but really a very narrow plot, and it is a movie that can get you to the theater on that plot alone, because it's really enticing. I often find when you can give a really great elevator pitch to a movie where it's just downpack. You can have it down in one sentence, maybe two. Sometimes that is a sign of a bad movie. It could be a movie that just got green lip because it checked all the right boxes. You have a big A list star with Chris Pratt, where they put him at the front and center of every poster, and that is how they are selling this movie. It is essentially Chris Pratt versus Rebecca Ferguson the entire time, and everybody else in the cast is really just lower level kind of support here and there. That is where you spend your money. The movie only costs sixty million dollars, which is on the lower end of a mid range budget movie, so it's not one hundred million dollars, big Hollywood blockbuster. You also have to consider coming out in January, which means maybe they don't believe a whole lot in It also happened to come out at the time of recording this going into a weekend where most of the country, at least millions and millions of people around me, are all going to be affected by this big ice storm rolling through. So you have to imagine not a whole lot of people are even leaving their houses right now, unless they're going to the grocery store to get milk, eggs, and bread. So when I rolled up to the theater on a Friday afternoon, which is normally a little bit more full, it was so empty. There was more salt in that parking lot than there were cars. I don't think I needed to see this movie on the big screen to really experience it, And I just got flashbacks, you guys, flashbacks to the worst movie of last year that I talked about recently, War of the World with ice Cube, because what you have here is in TV what they call a bottle episode, where you don't want your characters to leave one scene because you can't really afford it. So if you're watching an episode where normally they go to a lot of different locations, but for some reason they have a plot contained entirely in one room, it's because they were trying to save money. One of my favorite comedies, Community did a whole episode about this, making fun of the bottle episode. But in movies it's a little bit different. We do have at times really great movies that take place primarily in one location, but in the case of Mercy, they're pleading guilty because this was not it. And I knew within the first ten minutes what I was going to get, and I tried to have a little bit more optimism going into it because I was enticed by the plot. I am not a Chris Pratt hater, and especially when you see him coming off of movies like the Jurassic World franchise, coming off of Guardians of the Galaxy, his star is still super bright. But in this case, it's not his name alone that is gonna make this movie any better. It was so predictable that I had it within the first ten minutes, and I don't like to be that person who is so annoying trying to figure out movies like this and find so much satisfaction in it. But the writing was terrible, bull awful. Every character was so poorly written. I will give it to Chris Pratt. If you did not have him in that chair, with his acting abilities, it would have been so much worse because he was the only one conveying any kind of real emotion that made you believe any aspect of the story. All the supporting characters were terribly written. It's god, everybody bad. Rebecca Ferguson did a pretty good job, but I overall found a lot of flaws with her character of being this AI system that it's supposed to be without bias, and that was the entire premise of this movie, that it is this judge who is only looking at the facts, and I found so many plot holes because she wasn't acting, in my opinion, robotic enough. Nothing about that system made me think it was so advanced in tracking down criminals, so it was even hard for me to believe this world that they created, and that's all they had to do was play within their own rules, and it just did not make sense. There were so many plot holes and so many things that were just easily teed up to start getting you to think one certain way, but you knew it wasn't going to go that way. And if you pay attention to all the characters, you like me, can figure it out so quickly, and by the third act, which it's not even that long of a movie, and I think that's even how they sold the whole thing of he has ninety minutes to figure it out. Well, the movie just happens to be ninety minutes, so it doesn't even happen in real time, which is the other weird thing. But everything just seemed too convenient. All the performances were so stiff. I was so aware that it was just Chris Pratt sitting in a room with a blue or a green screen. Mercy just felt like a really poorly written black mirror episode, which if you look at how greatly produced a black Mirror episode is compared to something like this, which if you just compare the budgets of a black Mirror episode to what this entire movie took to make it is wild and shows you that it's so much more about direction and creativity to creating a captivating story. It's not about having a big budget or an A list movie star. It comes down to having a vision, and Mercy had no vision. At six million dollars, it might as well have just put all that money in a room and set it on fire, because a Black Mirror episode costs ten percent of that, and I could watch the worst Black Mirror episode and leave with much more of an impact than I did leaving watching Mercy. At no point was I ever engaged in the story or sold on that it was gonna win me back at the end. Sometimes I can tell from the very beginning just by how many studio logos play before the movie starts, because that just happens to be another random indicator of if a movie is going to be bad or not. If there are six studio logos, which I think in this case there were only four maybe five before a movie plays, that is kind of a red flag unless it's just a super independent movie that needed a lot of studios and a lot of production companies involved. If a movie has multiple at the beginning, which it is an MGM movie. So it will be on Amazon probably in ninety days or so, and you will thing any different of it, because a lot of Chris Pratt's movies just happened to go on Amazon, and it's gonna feel like just another thumbnail up there. I think ultimately this movie did not read the room and thought they could really just put out a mediocre movie with a somewhat decent premise and get people interested in it. But I think the bar has been raised so high when it comes to a story like this. A man accused of murdering his wife is I think a topic that a lot of people would be interested now. Want to listen to a podcast about, want to watch a mini series, And it's not like it's a new concept. I hate to compare it to one of the best movies in this category, but The Fugitive, We've been doing this song and dance for a while now. So if you're gonna make a movie like this and give it a modern spin of okay, everybody's fascinated with AI right now. How it's gonna change our lives, how it's going to impact things that we never thought it would impact like the justice system and whether or not a person lives or not. That is a big thing. That is something that is a sexy topic and should have made for a great movie. Instead, it was such a snoozefest. I'm glad I took my own coffee with me into the theater, Otherwise I probably would have fallen asleep. I had that caffeine running through my veins, and even that couldn't get me excited in this movie. It was still full on nap material. Don't go see this movie in theaters. It is not worth your time, especially if you're thinking, man, I'm really good at brave this storm and try to make it through my local cinema to go watch Chris Pratt in this new movie. Don't do that. If you really love Chris Pratt, which I think he is the only redeeming quality of this He tried his hard, as he tried so hard, give it maybe twenty minutes. Give it twenty minutes, and if you are still wanting to figure out what exactly happened, finish it to the end when it comes out on streaming. Otherwise it is going to be a movie you put on and think, what is this. This feels so low budget for mercy. I give it two out of five trials. It's side to head down to movie Mike Trailer Park. Have you ever seen a trailer and thought, Man, I've seen this movie before. I know this is a new movie. It's not a remake. Even though in this case it is based on a book or a novella by the same name. It feels so familiar in every way, checks every single box. And even though it feels like, Okay, they just made a movie that feels so much like a movie we've all been there before, I still want to see it. That is how I feel about The Crime one on one trailer because the cast is amazing, and I think that is what has drawing me to want to go see this movie in theaters. Because you have Chris Hemsworth Thor himself, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo aka the Incredible Hulk, so we have a bit of an MCU connection here. You also have Barry Keegan and what the movie is about. You have an LA detective played by Mark Ruffalo who is trying to this thief that leaves behind no trace of DNA, no fingerprints. He's in and out within minutes. Of all these robberies. The only thing he has to connect them is that he operates on the one oh one freeway in LA That's all he knows. So he has to track down this guy using all these little small details. It is his mission as a detective to find this guy. Chris Hemsworth just happens to be really good at his job. He is a jewel thief. He is after money and shiny things. And he happens to find Halle Berry at a crossroads where she is working as an insurance broker. She is not happy in her position, so right place, right time for her to meet a guy like Chris Hemsworth and use him to her advantage to take some things from her employer that she believes she is earned, pulling off this big heist. And then you have Barry Keegan, who is just kind of the wild card in this story, who is going to come out of nowhere and try to rip off the people trying to rip off the insurance place. So that is the stage they are setting in this movie. There are a couple of big red flags in the trailer, but I'm gonna look past those. We will talk about them, but before I get into more. Here is just a little bit of the crime one oh one trailer.

00:45:14
Speaker 2: I came here to make you a business proposition for to the same company for eleven years your VP when it should be a partner hi value item as your company insures. I make them disappear. Start by handing me your phone. So you're a thief. What's the security set up? There's a courier daring watches some gems looking at eleven million dollars in one room, of which I want three. Let him rob the courier and then you rob him.

00:45:44
Speaker 1: So that is the plan. Chris Hemsworth and halle Berry are gonna team up to rip off her employer. Barry Keegan somehow gets a hold of this information. You see him driving around La on a motorcycle. He is going to try to rip off Chris Hemsworth as they steal the money from the insurance broker who is protecting a lot of jewels. There is one room that they're gonna hit that has eleven million dollars and all halle Berry wants out of that is three million dollars. So you have your set pieces. And underneath that, Mark Ruffalo is trying to figure out who Chris Hemsworth is The biggest red flags in this trailer is one they show you the entire movie in this a little over two minute trailer. If you watch it from beginning to end, you know all the beats of this story. You know what is going to happen. Me being able to explain it like that, I already know what I'm going to get into. So I think in this case, the second red flag that tells me by them showing the entire plot is they are trying to sell the sizzle more so than the steak. They just want to show you all these things that you're gonna get right up front. You get Chris Hemsworth in a role that is not Thorp. You get Mark Ruffalo maybe in a way you've seen him recently if you watch Task on HBO Max, which was fantastic ast him as a detective. I think working in any kind of law enforcement, I'm in sign me up for that. You have halle Berry in this who you don't really get a halle Berry movie every single year, maybe every four or five years, So for that reason, it is an event. So they are selling you the cast here because they show you the entire plot of the movie and hope that by giving you so much and telling you all these people in it, that you will still go pay money to watch this movie in theaters. And I think if there's somebody who's going to get you out to the theater out of anybody in this cast, it is going to be halle Berry, because to me that does feel like an event. But those are the major red flags sticking out to me. And it also feels very familiar, even though this isn't a reboot of anything. It is based on a novella by the same name, Crime one oh one, But to me it feels a little bit like Drive with Ryan Gosling a little bit of Baby Driver in there as well, just because you see Chris Hemsworth looking really cool in a car also placed Beyond on the Pines, and of the Ryan Gossling movie, because this movie is about just one last heist, and it always is about one last heist. A criminal like this will never be satisfied because they need to keep stealing more and more to feed their appetite. And I think, just by looking at Chris hemsworth character in this it's not so much about having enough money. It'll never be about that it looks like he actually enjoys this. He enjoys being so elusive and getting away, so we have that aspect of it. It also reminds me, of course, of the Oceans movies. Anytime you have a Hees movie like this, it just has those vibes to me, and of course one of the greatest movies of all time Heat, I'm also getting those vibes as well, which they are making a Heat too. This kind of feels like all the people who weren't good enough or maybe did not get cast in Heat two, which that cast looks really impressive. Leonardo DiCaprio is a part of that. Whoever didn't get cast in Heat to got Crime one oh one as kind of a Okay, you can go do this movie. I mean, that's probably not the case, but that's just what it feels like to me. Interesting thing about this cast is you see the connection between the Marvel universe where Chris Hemsworth is returning later this year in Doomsday. Mark Ruffalo is not returning later this year in Doomsday. He confirmed it pretty recently that he's not going to be a part of that movie. However, he is confirmed to be in Spider Man Brand New Day, So that leaves me asking a lot of questions. Does that mean he's a little bit over the MCU where he doesn't want to do another Avengers movie, or is something going to happen to the Hulk in Spider Man Brand New Day, Which, first of all, I love that casting. I feel like the Hulk has been underutilized in the MCU, where I want fully unleashed Hulk like he is in the comic books, like the character that I grew up loving, the character I know can be the most dominant superhero out of anybody, be the strongest in the room at all times. But for some reason in the MCU has always had a bit of a comedic feel to him, aside from the first Avengers movie, which I loved him in that. But once we got to Professor Hulk and She Hulk, he became a little bit more of the comic relief and we saw a lot more of Mark Ruffalo, who I do love and I think he is a great Bruce Banner, but we saw more of him not hoped out. I don't know if it's because there's something that's gonna happen to his character in Spider Man. Maybe he dies, maybe something happens where he completely goes away, or Mark Ruffalo is kind of trying to move past the MCU, which I thought a lot more of these actors were going to do, and I think at one point that was the case. But since the last one came out in twenty nineteen, and they've done some cameos here and there, some movie here and there, but haven't done another Avengers movie and have had time to branch out a little bit and try these other movies like Hemsworth has done with action movies like this that I feel like he's really just gravitated to because maybe it's the easiest thing for him to flow into. But maybe that hasn't gone the way that they've all expected. And at the end of the day, it is hard to pass up that MCU money. And not only do you make the money, but you also get all the love again of people being excited to have you back, which those trailers got over a billion views online, so there is still that demand for it. So to be in a position where you can still go back to that and lean on that, even though you kind of wanted to set yourself apart from it, I have to imagine that is a really hard thing to do, and just being able to turn that down is probably one of the most impossible things you can do as an actor. Now I see them coming back for Doomsday. I definitely see a lot of them coming back, unless some of them die in Doomsday in Secret Wars, after that, I think is where we get a full reboot and we kind of have to let go a lot of these characters, which has been really hard for people to move on because eventually they're going to age out of these roles, and then we'll really have to move on, and then we're not going to be showing enough attention to all the new Avengers, all these other people that we've introduced and never brought back into the equation. Then we're gonna have an even harder time to bounce back and compete with DC. But Ruffalo at fifty eight years old, I feel like him in his sixties. He's done with the Hulk. Chris Hemsworth at a healthy forty two, I think, if he really wanted to, could play it well into his fifties, but I think he is trying to move past that a little bit, and seeing him in Crime one oh one looking very comfortable in this role and not just shoot him up action movie that we've seen him in like Extraction. This feels like a really good lane for him. And even though this movie feels like it's very familiar, like I'm gonna go into it knowing exactly what I'm going to get out of it, I think it's still going to be a good time at the theater, but I'm just setting moderate expectations. Crime one oh one comes out in theaters next month on February thirteenth, And that was.

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Speaker 2: This week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer.

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Speaker 1: Bars, and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. How do you get a listener shout out? You can DM me on Instagram, comment on my TikTok, or my YouTube page, YouTube dot com slash Mike Dstro also have a Facebook. You can find all the links in the episode notes of this podcast every single week, so whatever you like, or if you want to email Moviemike d at gmail dot com. But this week I'm going over to my Instagram pulling up a recent comment I got on the video Kelsey and I did back on her birthday where she went to the bookstore, had five minutes to pick out any books she wanted in the store, and the only rule was as long as she could carry it, she could get any books you wanted. And you can go watch that video if you missed it. That video was a while back, but if you go to my Instagram and you miss that, you can check that out. Fun game that we do every year. But I'm shouting out Gina who commented on that video and said thanks for the end of the year review, Kelsey. I am a bit behind on the podcast and just listened. Also, thanks for the validation on audio books. My husband and I started listening to books on long trips. It's now a favorite pastime that we enjoy on shorter trips and just while eating dinner after a long, stressful day. So along with that video, we also did an entire podcast where Kelsey did her top ten books of the last year. So there's a video on my Instagram and the full podcast that we did, so if you need some book recommendations, you can go check out. That episode came out back at the beginning of the year on January second. If you want to go back here on the feed. But thank you Gina, and to anybody who's been catching up on the podcast. If you're listening now and it's way in the future, because this one come out in January, but maybe if you're listening in February or March, let me know when you're getting caught up. Just be like, hey, I know it's March already, but I'm listening to the episode back in January where you're like, hey, if you were getting caught up, let me know in the future. So this is a message to all future listeners of this podcast. Maybe some aliens. I don't know, maybe an alien gets this feed in like another three thousand years and they're like, hey, just catching up on the podcast, even though I'd be long gone by then. But thank you Gina. And because I didn't mention books update on my book of Reading project, hell Mary, I'm still chugging along. Since last time I read, I think another two chapters, so I'm well over a fourth of the way through, I think now now I'm getting close to that halfway mark, not quite there yet, but that is my next goal, to get halfway through the book until March. So that is this week's book update. If you want to start a project till Mary Too, I think you still have enough time if you want to hop on start reading it so we can all go watch the movie together in March and be those people that say, ah, the book was so much better than the movie, But thank you for listening. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later